Especially their taxes, it's easy to be a digital citizen there. Here too many groups are too invested in keeping things complicated so we need to pay TurboTax etc. it's lame!

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The tax system feels like a dystopian board game designed by lobbyists and enterprise software vendors. Pay a fee to file your own taxes. Pay another to e-file. Hope the glitchy, million-dollar government-contracted portal doesn’t crash, then endure identity verification hell just to get a refund—because you overpaid last year, like everyone does, by default.

The Estonians would have me tell them about our tax systems just so they could have a laugh at us. It was the best stand up comedy to them to tell them how I got in trouble with the IRS 😅

ooooh, you got in trouble? I've been lucky never to land in that pickle, but I keep my fingers crossed!

Yea it's a long story but the short version is I was 18. I thought I was being very clever. I was not, in fact, being clever at all 🤣

good cautionary tale!