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   your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦 (blogdiva@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 09-Dec-2025 09:51:37 JST your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦

   RE: https://mastodon.social/@NotDennisBonvie/115686527415480408

   today’s #AltTxt #yaddayadda:

   ❝ Norwegian here. Here's a fun fact about taxes in Norway:

   We don't file them. Your employer reports your income and deducts the right amount each month. Then the government sends you a pre-filled tax return in March. You check it, and if everything looks right, you click "OK".

   If you paid too much, you get a refund. If you paid too little, you get an invoice.

   No paperwork.
   No stress.

   Follow for more real life glimpses into a social democracy. ❞

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     Adrianna Tan (skinnylatte@hachyderm.io)'s status on Tuesday, 09-Dec-2025 09:54:30 JST Adrianna Tan

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     @blogdiva this is true for almost all countries. Not just Norway

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     Shannon Clark (rycaut@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 09-Dec-2025 15:36:34 JST Shannon Clark

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     • M.S. Bellows, Jr.
     • Dave Rahardja (temporarily spooky)

     @drahardja @msbellows @blogdiva it is even more corrupt than you imply.

     Really rich people don't donate cash to charities (or at least mostly not cash)

     Instead they "donate" appreciated assets to most often their own "Donor Advised Fund" - which is technically a charity so the "trick" being they get a credit for a charitable donation in the amount of the value of the asset when donated without having to pay capital gains on the sale of that asset.

     Then they may make grants to other charities

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     Dave Rahardja (temporarily spooky) (drahardja@sfba.social)'s status on Tuesday, 09-Dec-2025 15:36:35 JST Dave Rahardja (temporarily spooky)

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     • M.S. Bellows, Jr.

     @msbellows @blogdiva I think tax deductions for charitable contributions is a bad idea, as it incentivizes what is basically tax evasion: rich people establish charities that by *sheer coincidence* invest in things that align with the interests of the rich person. Rich person then “donates” a ton of money to this “charity” to get a massive tax write off.

     Charitable organizations getting tax-exempt status? Maybe, we can discuss that separately. But donations to charitable organizations getting tax deductions? Bad idea IMO.

     Steve's Place repeated this.
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     M.S. Bellows, Jr. (msbellows@c.im)'s status on Tuesday, 09-Dec-2025 15:36:36 JST M.S. Bellows, Jr.

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     • Dave Rahardja (temporarily spooky)

     @drahardja @blogdiva Don't you get deductions for charitable contributions or travel? What if you're self-employed?

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     Dave Rahardja (temporarily spooky) (drahardja@sfba.social)'s status on Tuesday, 09-Dec-2025 15:36:37 JST Dave Rahardja (temporarily spooky)

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     @blogdiva The funny thing is that I suspect a large number of USians will initially not believe that other countries do it this way, and then when they finally admit it’s true, they’ll find ways to rationalize why the US way is better, actually.

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     Mabel Martin (mabelmakesthings@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 09-Dec-2025 16:35:24 JST Mabel Martin

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     @blogdiva this is how it works in Australia as well sort of similar we are able to do it online using a government portal our employers and banks provide information to the taxation office and we have to check the accuracy and make sure personal details are up-to-date

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     Adrianna Tan (skinnylatte@hachyderm.io)'s status on Tuesday, 09-Dec-2025 16:35:24 JST Adrianna Tan

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     • Mabel Martin

     @mabelmakesthings @blogdiva I point my phone at my laptop and I click two buttons for Singapore taxes