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The UK manage this and we're completely dysfunctional in many ways.

Doing your taxes via self assessment is free and takes about 30mins to an hour online via HMRC.

Most people also go their entire lives without "doing their taxes"

Yeah, the self-assessment website isn’t exactly slick, but it’s easy to use, fills in most of the fields for you and gets the results correct.

It’s not like I’m not aware of bad software by government but the taxes ain’t it. Possibly because they are, in fact, incentivised to make it good.

And most people won’t even need to fill a self assessment at all (if you’re not in the higher tax bracket it’s all handled automatically)