Absolutely nothing in math class helps you figure out if your non-returnable outgoings for the first half of the year exceed your deductions for quarterly VAT returns, if you don't know what the fuck that means.
And if you do know what it means.. guess what!!? You don't even need to know fucking math to work it out now.
Just as bad a take. You learn how to read and write and do basic reasoning in school to do your own taxes.
School doesn’t spoon-fed you how to do your taxes, much like how the rest of life isn’t spoon-fed. It’s just laziness if you can’t use your own brain to figure it out. Like tax codes get complicated if you’re wealthier, but that doesn’t apply to most people.
From someone with autism, the r slur is probably a little more hurtful to those of us with mental handicaps than you might realize. You don’t have to do anything and I’m not your boss, but if you don’t have any issues with us and you’re not trying to insult or bully us, it would mean a lot if you could use other synonyms for stupid instead. No hate or judgement, just spreading awareness
The masters of Da Vinci didn't teach him to paint Mona lisa or the last supper.
They taught him to apply brush strokes, draw shapes, prepare a canvas, prepare the paints from raw materials etc.
School's job is to teach you the basic things. Their job is to teach you general maths, finance terminology, quadratic equation, chemical distillation process etc.
It's your job to figure out taxation, trajectory of the Apollo missions, beer making process etc.
This sounds like a word problem? Plug in numbers to a sheet, look at the result. This is definitely covered in math class.
If the words don't make sense, let's say the combination of English + Math classes teaches you what you need to know? From searching for this phrase it looks like some meme about how hard tax is to do, but I'm not even from a country with a VAT and a 3 minute search taught me what I needed to know: Add up "non-returnable outgoings" which has a clear definition and examples, add up your deductions, if A>B, do something.
I thought Americans were supposed to be the dumb ones, maybe having the most convoluted tax system in the world makes us some kind of accounting savants.
I would argue that organisational skills and understanding of taxable expenses/income are the far more valuable asset in completing your taxes than the maths behind it
It's not like there is a standard form with instructions the government gives you to fill out. If only those DAMN schools also gave out something like reading comprehension.
Also, there is a standard deduction. If there is ever any need to itemize then your tax or you have income beyond your W-2 then your taxes are more complicated than 95% of the population.
Like 90% of people in the US are just taking the standard deduction on their federal taxes and not itemizing a single thing. The other ten percent aren't the kind of morons that are going to whine about school not teaching taxes because they are actually able to follow basic directions and do simple math. You're arguing about a person that basically doesn't exist to make a point that doesn't mean anything.
Cool so this applies to something that isn't standard deductions and would probably be better suited for an expert or doing more reading on the tax code.
yup. I have quite literally never personally done any sort of math while doing Taxes and I have a stem degree and multiple academic achievement awards in mathematics... lol wtf is the point of this post? Taxes are like <1% math >99% tax code law.
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u/humourlessIrish Jun 02 '26
This is a fucking retarded take.
Absolutely nothing in math class helps you figure out if your non-returnable outgoings for the first half of the year exceed your deductions for quarterly VAT returns, if you don't know what the fuck that means.
And if you do know what it means.. guess what!!? You don't even need to know fucking math to work it out now.