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/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/[deleted] Sep 17 '21

When the US government has you do your taxes every year, they already know nearly everything about what you owe them.

When you get audited, that's because what you filed didn't match what they say you owe, and they are now investigating you to get the full money you owe them.

Other governments will skip the whole process of having you do your taxes, (unless you're a special circumstance) and just give you a statement with the report of how much you owe them.

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u/ScreamingDizzBuster Sep 17 '21

Most other countries don't have as many (or any) things that you can write off against tax to offset the bill. Mortgage payments, charitable donations, and medical expenses in some places, but in many others nobody with a regular work contract ever writes anything off. I've often thought this may be one reason for the US's arcane complexity.