They paid their preschool and homeless services taxes. Then the city told them they hadn't
Many Portland area residents who did pay the taxes are having to spend hours on the phone to correct the issue.
https://www.kgw.com/article/news/investigations/portlanders-frustrated-warning-letters-taxes-already-paid/283-5b3434ed-0f6f-408d-87e9-9a275a1967a0Open linkView original on lemmy.world
Just build it in to everything else. Introducing additional avenues for fuckups helps no one and it's extra painful to pay your taxes both mentally and logistically.
It doesn't help that the tax has weird cutoffs. $125,000 if you're single, $200,000 if you're married.
I'm married so I'm under the cap, but if I got divorced, I'd be over the cap.