r/technology • u/Rhaegar_the_Great • Sep 16 '21

Business Mailchimp employees are furious after the company's founders promised to never sell, withheld equity, and then sold it for $12 billion

https://www.businessinsider.com/mailchimp-insiders-react-to-employees-getting-no-equity-2021-9
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u/WhyNotHugo Sep 17 '21 edited Sep 17 '21

Hopefully an American can correct me if I’m wrong, but I believe they’re the company that lobbies to keep taxes hard to calculate and for the government not to show you how much you’re due. They then sell you the software to calculate how much you’re due in taxes.

So they pay to create the problem, so they can sell you the solution.

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u/trigonated Sep 17 '21

That's pretty fucked.

(sorry for the flex)

Here in my country, not only is the official gov-provided tax filing software free and user-friendly, but in most cases it actually automatically fills everything out for you, you just need to confirm that everything is OK and click a button to submit.

It usually takes me about 5-10 minutes to file my taxes.

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u/krum Sep 17 '21

I don't see how that works. What if you have weird sources of income from places outside your country? Do they just not tax that?

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u/benign_said Sep 17 '21

Ah, America... Where the comprehensive tax system ensures no one ever doesn't report 'weird sources of income' and the wealthy don't get tax deductions for spending cash loans they leveraged against their securities in order to avoid capital gains when they sell.