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Originally Posted by #-3
Taxation
Engage in negotiations with other countries on a treaty around a strict tariff frame work for any country that does not meet a certain standard of corporate and capital gains taxation.
Increase on income taxes off-set by the elimination of the GST.
Automatic filing, The government should send you a link filled out with all of the information they already received from your employer / employers. And it is on you to amend it with credits, write offs... no response should be considered a filing as is.
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This one is needed and it's embarrassing we are stuck following the German model of sending stuff by paper and other outdated 70s methods. To be fair, Netfile has been a godsend the past few years, but it's still not good enough. Filing taxes should not be the burden or ordeal that it is.
When I lived in Poland, filing taxes was a 2 mintue process once you figured out what to do. Your employer and banks/investment firms/other financial accounts submit everything on your behalf and upload everything to the tax portal. You log in, click a few buttons, fill in your bank info, confirm the docs, done. That's it. Got my refund a few weeks later.
To make it even better, when I went back to visit last year, I simply logged into my PL mobile banking app and it triggered the filing for the previous tax year automatically. Didn't even have to log into the tax portal. Logging into the bank app did it all for me. The refund was deposited a few days later. Literally all I did was log into the banking app to make sure it still worked and I ended up having a bunch of bonus money for my trip.
God forbid we make it easier for citizens to file something the government can already automate to be done automatically. But I guess way to much revenue to be made for people who file late.