I’m surprised it is so difficult to pay taxes in Japan. I had a job there. Your employer fills out your income tax return for you. The individual taxpayer doesn’t have to do anything. I certainly found it more difficult to do tax returns in New Zealand and Australia as compared to Japan.
Source: Historical Data – Doing Business- World Bank Group.
People tell me that filling out a tax return in the USA is a nightmare. Filling out a federal tax return takes a day and tax agents must be hired by ordinary taxpayers. The USA is still ranked seventh by the World Bank in terms of ease of paying taxes.
All those American TV shows ranging from police dramas to comedies about the horrors of filling out tax returns and the dreaded IRS audit of ordinary taxpayers must have some truth in them. The pop culture about the IRS must have some accuracy to resonate with lives of the viewing audience.
Not to kick America when it’s down, I did not mention the need of many American taxpayers to fill out multiple state and city tax income tax returns. I haven’t mentioned multiple federal state and local business tax and sales tax returns either.
Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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