“And I’m here to help.”
Those should be words that make you do one of two things: 1. Run, or 2. Grab you weapon of choice and get behind something impervious to small arms fire.
Yet, for some strange reason, I don’t think many Californians are going to do either, after reading this.
California is testing whether the government can ease taxpayers’ annual pain by completing tax returns for them.
Under the pilot program, called “Ready Return,” the state mailed 50,000 taxpayers completed state tax returns that computers filled in from financial records on file. The taxpayers either signed them and sent them back or redid them each of the past two years that the state has run the program.
California’s test is being watched by Congress, the tax industry and economists, some of whom say the Internal Revenue Service — not individual taxpayers — should prepare simple federal returns.
I can’t get a guarantee that my state government will have their on-line vehicle license tabs renewal program working, as I found out last week, but I should let them do my taxes for me?
I can’t count on the fed to not take three years to tell the wife and I that one of her previous employeers miscalculated her withholding percentage in 2001, and that in 2004, after fees and interest, we owed them hundreds of dollars, and these folks expect me to trust them with my bank account routing number?
I have a long, spikey steel thing and a place I would prefer them to stick it.