• bamboo@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    2 days ago

    If I had to guess, this is a holdover from the 90s where people didn’t trust a quick calculation, and probably doubted the application was properly choosing the standard or itemized deductions.

    • pablodaniel@lemmings.world
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      1 day ago

      Usually it’s to fool people into thinking something is happening when nothing is happening.

      It’s also to make them think that something is more complicated than it actually is.