-------------------------------------------- Tax season 2020.02.05 21:55:02 CET -------------------------------------------- It's tax season again. I made the final tax payment for 2019 and now have to prepare all my documents to submit the calculation to the tax authority. This is a boring process - it should be a pretty simple process given I have a single source of income, but that source actually pays in cash and equity. Equity in the US, in US Dollars. This complicates the whole thing. Oh and 2019 was the first year in which the tax authority instead of paying me back my tax credits (what I overpaid in 2018) just used it as credits for future taxes. I think I might have overpaid again and will try to adjust it in 2020. Until 2019 all my taxes were paid at source - meaning I never go to see the money, my employers paid the tax authorities directly, little by little, month by month. This will be the second year that I get paid gross monthly salaries and have to make a single payment (well actually two) for the whole year. So I see all that money accumulating during the year and then have to say goodbye in a single transaction. This makes paying tax a lot more explicit. It's painful. It's not revolting only because here I can see what taxes are paying for. If I were in a country where corruption and misuse of public money are common I would be livid. It's easy to understand why many governments are not in favor of this model of tax payment.