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		balderdash on April 14, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Filing Taxes in Japan Is a Breeze. Why Not in the ... I think the allusion was to what their all-in tax rate is. Everyone knows what their take home paycheck is, but ask the same person what their effective tax rate was for the year, and most people don't have a clue (over withholding, 401k deduction, mortgage interest deduction, state and property tax deductions, phase outs etc)

secabeen on April 14, 2017 [–]

Not everyone uses it of course, but TurboTax includes your effective tax rate in the Tax Summary they provide at the end of the process.

lern_too_spel on April 14, 2017 | [–]

According to the article, people using TurboTax is why we have this problem. You are not going to convince anybody to use TurboTax in this forum.

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