Japan does that, even further. Your employer not only files for you but also calculates all adjustments and pay you (if you paid too much tax) or deduct from your wage (if you owe some). If you work for one company and have no extra income, which had been typical for majority of Japanese until recently, you'll never have to deal with the department of taxation.
But I think it has downside. Those who do not touch their own tax calculation don't tend to think about taxes; most of my acquaintances when I was in Japan had very vague idea of how much they paid for tax. After moving to US I noticed that people are much more aware of tax they're paying, hence how the government spends them.
I now even think Japan should make everyone file, like US.
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Japan does that, even further. Your employer not only files for you but also calculates all adjustments and pay you (if you paid too much tax) or deduct from your wage (if you owe some). If you work for one company and have no extra income, which had been typical for majority of Japanese until recently, you'll never have to deal with the department of taxation.
But I think it has downside. Those who do not touch their own tax calculation don't tend to think about taxes; most of my acquaintances when I was in Japan had very vague idea of how much they paid for tax. After moving to US I noticed that people are much more aware of tax they're paying, hence how the government spends them.
I now even think Japan should make everyone file, like US.