I dinked around later than usual this year but the filing (and the return) are in the rear-view mirror now. I actually made a taxable amount on all my bundled hobbies of my "micro-business". Love that "self-employment tax" they figure out (I suppose because I'm not taking out SS or Medicare deductions on myself). Not a big deal for what little money I made doing my micro-business groupings but I suspect its a PIA for full-time doing it proprietors. I think if a guy is working full time on his own and their income is in the middle class range, the fed gov should be satisfied just to tax the actual income and not finance the rest of the entitlement world on their backs.
Or go to a straight federal sales tax where everybody (rich, poor, in between) has skin in the game when they buy something. The current hodge podge where this person pays a lot and this person pays none and others some gets straightened out a bit. I wonder how many people I actually subsidize and how, I guess probably, I'm subsidized by someone else. Mostly its who has the best software that can work and plan things from the tax code...
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