In Denmark we have this (prefilled forms). Both for last years taxes and a preform for nexy years taxes. Income, tax, estate, interest, stock gains, and even tax exemption for commutes and similar are all filled out.
You simply login with your "easy id" and accept or edit.
Any oustanding balance in your favour is transferred to your bank account in about a week.
Any outstanding balance in the goverments favour will either be moved to next years taxes or billed automaticly dependant on the amount.
It all works out pretty good.. Even though we pay the worlds highest taxes.. (Sales tax 25%, car tax 180%, income tax 58%..)
I believe a new version based on JavaScript and iframes (sigh) is either out now or being deployed as we speak. Of course it sucks too (just less), but for different reasons: Recent posts on various forums have indicated that it uses something like 1MiB of JavaScript for what is basically a series of forms. The use of iframes is also kind of insane these days unless it's for branding/familiary-for-casual-users. The really weird thing is that official spokespeople have claimed that the iframe thing is for security reasons, which has me worried about what kind of security they imagine they can achieve in a compromised client. Hopefully(?!) it was just a spokesperson being ill-formed about the technical details.
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In Denmark we have this (prefilled forms). Both for last years taxes and a preform for nexy years taxes. Income, tax, estate, interest, stock gains, and even tax exemption for commutes and similar are all filled out.
You simply login with your "easy id" and accept or edit.
Any oustanding balance in your favour is transferred to your bank account in about a week.
Any outstanding balance in the goverments favour will either be moved to next years taxes or billed automaticly dependant on the amount.
It all works out pretty good.. Even though we pay the worlds highest taxes.. (Sales tax 25%, car tax 180%, income tax 58%..)
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Belgium alsof had one of the highest taxes in the world... And one of the most dificult ones, we have exceptions for everything :-(
What is an "easy id"? Not heard of that before. Is that specific to your tax records, or some kind of ID for all state services?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NemID
Looks like terrible, Java-based spyware.
I believe a new version based on JavaScript and iframes (sigh) is either out now or being deployed as we speak. Of course it sucks too (just less), but for different reasons: Recent posts on various forums have indicated that it uses something like 1MiB of JavaScript for what is basically a series of forms. The use of iframes is also kind of insane these days unless it's for branding/familiary-for-casual-users. The really weird thing is that official spokespeople have claimed that the iframe thing is for security reasons, which has me worried about what kind of security they imagine they can achieve in a compromised client. Hopefully(?!) it was just a spokesperson being ill-formed about the technical details.