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Comic title: Life in 2030”

This shows guy facing futuristic yet bleak smart home with many IoT devices and AI etc. Smart toilet is updating so he cant use it. Robot wife low battery so cant sleep with her. Fridge locked behind ads and ask to upgrade to premium version. Park is now data center so no walk for him. Smart bed subscription expired so he falls on floor. Air is taxed so he cant breath and vents say pay now to getair. Man looks stressed and sweaty in every panel.

  • ceenote@lemmy.world
    1511·
    2 days ago

    This is silly. A tax is something the government charges you. We’ll be paying a privately owned corporation for our their air.

    • Zorque@lemmy.worldEnglish
      28·
      2 days ago

      Yeah, but with regulatory capture they outsourced air-distribution to private companies.

    • Denvil@piefed.worldEnglish
      6·
      2 days ago

      Don’t a lot of people already pay companies to do their taxes for them? They’re just cutting out the end man and keeping the middle man

      • stoy@lemmy.zipEnglish
        161·
        2 days ago

        That seems to mostly be a thing in the US, in developed countries we have pre filled out tax forms that you sign online, if you haven’t got anything special to report, it takes 5 min to just double check the numbers and sign it.

        • yermaw@sh.itjust.works
          10·
          2 days ago

          Here in the UK “normal workers” dont even do that. Your employer does it all for you and you just get told about it in your payslip.

          [Here’s how much you earned.]

          ~[Here’s a bit of tax.] [Here’s a bit of other tax] [Here’s a bit of national insurance] [Here’s a bit of pension contributions] [Here’s some other numbers that I cant even remember because I never bother looking] [boring stuff really] [you should probably look at this but who gives a shit its boring]~

          [Heres what youre actually getting!]

          • stoy@lemmy.zipEnglish
            5·
            2 days ago

            Oh yeah, your employer pays your tax here in Sweden, I am just talking about the yearly income report you have to submit.

            You only have to make any changes if you have earned money not automatically reported to the government.

            I sold some stock a few years back, and had to report it and pay tax on it.

            I ran the simple calculation, reported everything, and transfered the money to my tax account, total time was 45 min.

            • lad@programming.devEnglish
              2·
              2 days ago

              In Spain your employer pays, and you also pay some at the end of year. And for more complicated cases Spain publishes short instructions on how to pay taxes as an individual, just about 900 pages

              I heard, Spain tax system is considered the most complicated in the world because of all the legacy stuff

              • stoy@lemmy.zipEnglish
                2·
                1 day ago

                I have even reported a slightly higher tax rate to my employer, this means that I slightly overpay my taxes through the year, and when it is time to report your taxes, you will always get a tax return.

                • Taleya@aussie.zoneEnglish
                  2·
                  1 day ago

                  I had that happen inadvertently- my employer forgot to claim the tax free threshold. I just said fuckit and we’ll fix it next financial year

                  $18,000 on my tax return was glorious

        • brsrklf@jlai.lu
          2·
          2 days ago

          In France, when you check your income tax if you have nothing to correct you don’t even need to sign it.

          • IsoKiero@sopuli.xyzEnglish
            1·
            3 hours ago

            Finland too. Government just sends a letter (digital today, used to be an actual letter) which says 'here’s our info about your income and other shit, go to our website if you need to correct anything, if all is good you’ll receive invoice/returns for X euro"

    • Mika@piefed.caEnglish
      8·
      2 days ago

      Do the air pollution -> sell air filters and compressed clean air cartridges.