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Good_Burning_Plastic comments on 2015 Repository Reruns - Boring Advice Repository - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: Good_Burning_Plastic 11 January 2015 06:34:16PM 0 points [-]

"80/20" are defined in relative terms, so it still makes sense if the overall complexity of your tax system is smaller.

Comment author: lmm 12 January 2015 08:42:51AM 0 points [-]

Only if the money saved / effort expended ratio is similar, and I don't think it is. The original post was "simple changes can often save several thousand dollars a year"; that's distinctly not true in (many) non-US countries.