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How do wages and tax work in the US?
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It’s not that complicated. You’re taxed on income and some things you can deduct to reduce your taxable income amount.
The irs provides worksheets to help with the math.
The irs will audit people at random to make sure it’s accurate.
A scummy third party intentionally keeps things confusing to help convince people to use their services to do the math for them.