How in the US do taxes pay, and why are there no queues at the tax inspectorates?

When I first started a business in Ukraine (at the beginning of 90's), the business of paying, paying bills in a bank was very deplorable. Bills were printed on a typewriter for a carbon paper, they had to be carried to the bank, from where they almost always returned due to some mistakes. After paying the bill, money went around Kiev for a week. Now very few people remember this - the world and we together made a huge technological breakthrough.

Only the tax administration did not move a millimeter.

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Accountants and businessmen still wait in line for hours to submit reports to the tax department. Like 25 years ago, when there was no internet and computers. First, VAT reports, quarterly reports are submitted for days, then annual reports, they are not accepted, you need to redo it because of some comma or numbers, stand in a queue again, lose a lot of working time.

Why all this? No one can explain. The senselessness of the process is simply impressive. In my understanding, the goal here is only one - to intimidate, keep all entrepreneurs in fear, make them obedient.

How does a business submit a tax report to the USA?

In the richest country in the world, a tax report is a serious matter, but not at all as complicated as in Ukraine. The USA is rich not because the most cruel tax inspectors are here, but on the contrary - because there is minimal government intervention in business.

In the US, there is no VAT, respectively, there is no problem with idiotic VAT invoices, their blocking and the like. There is no need to cash and carry out fictitious operations that most businessmen in Ukraine face.

Need cash? Go to the bank and take it. True, they do not understand why - but you can get your money at any time.

You need to submit a tax report in the USA once a year - before April 1. Most companies do not even know who the tax inspector is or where the tax office is located.

As a rule, every company on the contract has an accounting firm that maintains accounting. Towards the end of the tax period, a second contractor is turned on - an auditor who fills out a tax report for you.

The head of business puts on the 2 documents the signatures - one on the report, the second - on the instructions to the auditor to deliver this report. Now everything is done in electronic form: received a report by mail, printed out, signed, scanned, sent to auditors. It's all.

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Many companies in the United States prefer not to rush to the report and ask them to extend the deadlines from April 15 to October 15. As a rule, all this is done without problems. Taxes must also be paid 1 times - after the actual submission of the report.

With personal taxes the same. It is necessary to transfer information to the auditor, he calculates everything and prepares a declaration. You serve. Everything.

Payments are paid automatically every month. If you work under a contract (this is an analogue of an emergency in Ukraine), that is, you receive the full amount from the customer without taxes, then you have to pay taxes yourself when you file a declaration. As a rule, at the end of the year, the tax also returns some money within two weeks after filing a response.

While in Ukraine every time “at the beginning of the year” and “at the end of the quarter” kilometer queues will form in the tax rounds, there can be no talk of any reform of the business climate.

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