Check out this graphic from GOOD on the countries with the simplest and most complicated (and most expensive) tax filing systems. The United States ranked 64th of183 countries surveyed.
Why we just don't apply a flat tax across the board, instead of creating huge taxation bureaucracies is something I'll never understand. Corporations have huge accounting and legal departments dedicated to avoiding taxation – a huge waste of resources, that roughly delivers the same revenue to the government that a flat tax rate would.
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