05-14-2017, 01:37 PM
Quote:The way taxes work in Nordic nations — a group that includes Sweden, Finland, Denmark, Norway, and, randomly, Estonia — is different from how it works here. In the US, taxes are prepared privately by the people who pay them (or by those people's accountants). In Nordic countries, they're prepared by the government. As a result, people in Nordic countries don't have to do much of anything to file their taxes. They just need to agree the government has prepared the forms correctly. For the people who don't have specialized income to declare, this is painless enough that they can confirm via text.Nordic countries file taxes by text message - Business Insider