Comment on If you work for a gig app in the US they make you go thru this charade when doing taxes where you're treated and taxed as an independent business owner. joke country

echo64@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• zerosignal@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Contact you’re representatives and ask them why this is the only place in the world that has this issue.

  Because the tax prep software companies bribe lobby Congress to keep things the way they are.

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  • b34k@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It’s not the tax prep companies in this case. It’s companies like Uber spending millions on lobbying to ensure that their drivers are never considered their employees, and subject to protections that employment affords

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    • Djtecha@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      It’s actually both. TurboTax spends millions lobbying against simplicity in the tax return process. While Uber also spends millions lobbying against proper labor practices.

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• FlorianSimon@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Canada also works similarly

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  • SkepticalButOpenMinded@lemmy.ca ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    As an American who moved to Canada, there are similarities but Canada is still one million times better than the US.

    The CRA (Canadian IRS) allows digital access to all tax info. Whatever software or service you use, just log into your CRA account and everything auto-fills. Done in a few minutes. My US taxes have never taken less than an hour, and often multiple hours if there’s anything remotely complicated.

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    • FlorianSimon@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I’m not denying that, but things are still shitty here compared to the country I come from because of the same reasons: lobbyism (by the same companies, even!)

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  • kent_eh@lemmy.ca ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Our neighbour is a bad influence on us when it comes to things like business practices.

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