N-gated Hacker News5d ago
🎉 Surprise, surprise! #Intuit triumphs over those pesky taxpayers yet again, because who needs fair taxes when you can have #TurboTax confusion? 💸 The American Prospect reports on this epic saga, but spoiler alert: the house always wins when the game is rigged! 🙄
https://prospect.org/power/2025-04-17-intuit-turbotax-wins-battle-against-taxpayers-irs-direct-file/ #TaxpayerRights #FairTaxes #TaxConfusion #HackerNews #ngated
Intuit, Owner of TurboTax, Wins Battle Against America’s Taxpayers

The successful IRS free tax filing program is being wound down, thanks in large part to Intuit’s copious spending in Washington.

The American Prospect
Show threadGail WaldbyApr 16
👎 That’s not justice—it’s exploitation. 📣 Time for billionaires to pay their fair share. #FairTaxes
Bluesky

Bluesky Social
GailWaldby@bsky.socialApr 16
Working people pay taxes every year to fund education, health, and safety. That's why it is a travesty that billionaire oligarchs like Trump and Musk celebrate their efforts to pay little to no income taxes from their personal earnings or from the companies they run.
👎 That’s not justice—it’s exploitation.
📣 Time for billionaires to pay their fair share. #FairTaxes
LinknationFeb 3

#rich vs #poor can lead to also violent conflict

#patrioticmillionaires pro #livingwage pro less inequality

a #livingwage in 2025 would be 20 Bucks an hour also individuals earning more than 1 million per month need to be #taxed higher

the #superrich also want to walk the streets safely and not live in golden cages
(gated communities with minefields)
#equality #inequality

#FixTheMoney #fixeconomy #fixfinance #fairtaxes #gaylord

nemo™ 🇺🇦Aug 14, 2024

🇨🇭 Switzerland debates taxing the super-rich! 💰 Billionaires threaten to leave over inheritance tax proposals. 🤑 Will the wealthy pay their fair share? 🤔 #TaxTheRich #WealthyWoes #SwissInheritanceTax #EconomicEquality #FairTaxes #WealthGap #SuperRich #Billionaires #Switzerland #Politics

🔗 https://s.42l.fr/8fS_crxM

Switzerland Debates Higher Inheritance Tax on Billionaires

Wealthy entrepreneurs have threatened to leave over inheritance tax proposals.

Bloomberg
Random Canuck 🍁😷 💉Jul 26, 2024

✅ Sustainable Jobs Act
✅ Fairer taxes on the wealthiest
✅ Affordable housing investments
✅ Universal pharmacare on the way

When workers come together to demand better, we all win! ✊

Let's move Forward Together

https://canadianplan.ca/add-your-voice

#SustainableJobs #FairTaxes #AffordableHousing #UniversalPharmacare
#CanPoli #OnPoli #Labour
canadianplan.ca

Join the Forward Together campaign

When we act together and use our collective power, we can fight for a system that puts people first.

Forward Together
Larry NeufeldJun 21, 2024
Workers’ income is 100% taxable. Capital gains should be too #capitalgains #taxes #Canada #cdnpoli #fairtaxes #incometax
https://monitormag.ca/articles/workers-income-is-100-taxable-capital-gains-should-be-too/
Workers’ income is 100% taxable. Capital gains should be too

This week, the federal government is putting forward a motion to pass its change—announced in the 2024 federal budget—in how capital gains are taxed. The feds are looking to change the inclusion rate for capital gains from 50 per cent to 66.6 per cent for every dollar one makes above $250,000 in…

The Monitor
Intergenerational FoundationOct 26, 2023

By continuing the freeze on Income Tax and NICs’ thresholds until 2027-28, the government has condemned the young and the poor to bear a larger share of the national tax burden. Read more here:

https://www.if.org.uk/2023/10/25/extending-the-freeze-on-tax-thresholds-hurts-the-young-and-the-poor

#intergenerationalfairness #intergenerationalequity #intergenerational #socialcontract #generations #taxation #taxes #taxationpolicy #youngpeople #fairtaxes #fairtaxation #taxpolicy #nationalinsurance #incometax #UKtaxpolicy

Extending the freeze on tax thresholds hurts the young and the poor - Intergenerational Foundation

An article that explains that by freezing tax and national insurance thresholds the government is raising more tax from the young and poor.

Intergenerational Foundation
Andy_S_64🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿Aug 28, 2023

Labour branded 'shameful' as it rules out wealth tax if elected

#VoteLabour = #VoteConservative

We can’t carry on like that.

Break free. #VoteGreen💚 like your planet depends on it — because it does and get #FairVotes #FairTaxes where the wealthy are taxed properly and public ownership of critical services and infrastructure to boot.

What’s not to love??

https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/23750391.labour-branded-shameful-rules-wealth-tax-elected/

Labour branded 'shameful' as it rules out wealth tax if elected

LABOUR’S shadow chancellor has ruled out a wealth tax if it wins the general election, a move branded "shameful" on the left of the…

HeraldScotland
KoffeeKrisp 🇨🇦Apr 20, 2023
What's with AirBnB and many accomodation providers not providing HST registration numbers? Aren't they required by law to include on receipts? Are they evading taxes? Not collecting? Issue arises with Ontario's staycation income tax credit
#Ontario #HST #incomeTaxes #Travel #CRA #AirBnB #FairTaxes #ONpoli #CANpoli