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First the 1040 is an exercise in sets:Gross Income - A collection and summation of all your income types.Adjustments - A collection of deductions the tax law allow you to deduct before signNowing AGI. (AGI is used as a threshold for another set of deductions).ExemptionsDeductions - A collection of allowed deductions.Taxes - A Collection of Different collected along with Income TaxesCredits - A collection of allowed reductions in tax owed.Net Tax Owed or Refundable - Hopefully Self Explanatory.Now the formulas:[math]Gross Income - Adjustments = Adjusted Gross Income (AGI)[/math][math]AGI - Exemptions - Deductions = Taxable Income[/math][math]Tax Function (Taxable Income ) = Income Tax[/math][math]Taxes - Credits = Net Tax Owed or Refundable[/math]Please Note each set of lines is meant as a means to make collecting and summing the subsidiary information easier.It would probably be much easier to figure out if everyone wanted to pay more taxes instead of less.

You will be filing form I-131 for a reentry permit. The timing is tricky. You absolutely must get your biometrics done before you leave the country, which you can expect to be scheduled within a month and half of USCIS receiving your application. It is possible to leave the country and receive the final decision on your application once you are already abroad.However, if you leave before it is finalized you won't know the result of your request until after you have left the country. It is currently taking USCIS much longer than it has in the past to process an I-131 request. If you want to receive a decision on your filing before leaving, I would give yourself at least 6 months.Keep in mind, the timelines here are approximate. Processing times have been increasing for all types of applications recently and there is always the possibility that there could be some kind of clerical or beaurocratic error in one particular case that delays things beyond the normal timeframe.

Taxes can be viewed as having 4 uses (or purposes) in our (and most) governments:Revenue generation (to pay for public services).Fiscal policy control (e.g., If the government wishes to reduce the money supply in order to reduce the risk of inflation, they can raise interest rates, sell fewer bonds, burn money, or raise taxes. In the last case, this represents excess tax revenue over the actual spending needs of the government).Wealth re-distribution. One argument for this is that the earnings of a country can be perceived as belonging to all of its citizens since the we all have a stake in the resources of the country (natural resources, and intangibles such as culture, good citizenship, civic duties). Without some tax policy complexity, the free market alone does not re-distribute wealth according to this "shared" resources concept. However, this steps into the boundary of Purpose # 4...A way to implement Social Policy (and similar government mandated policies, such as environmental policy, health policy, savings and debt policy, etc.). As Government spending can be use to implement policies (e.g., spending money on public health care, environmental cleanup, education, etc.), it is equivalent to provide tax breaks (income deductions or tax credits) for the private sector to act in certain ways -- e.g., spend money on R&D, pay for their own education or health care, avoid spending money on polluting cars by having a higher sales tax on these cars or offering a credit for trade-ins [ref: Cash for Clunkers]).Uses # 1 & 2 are rather straight-forward, and do not require a complex tax code to implement. Flat income and/or consumption (sales) taxes can easily be manipulated up or down overall for these top 2 uses. Furthermore, there is clarity when these uses are invoked. For spending, we publish a budget. For fiscal policy manipulation, the official economic agency (The Fed) publishes their outlook and agenda.Use # 3 is controversial because there is no Constitutional definition for the appropriate level of wealth re-distribution, and the very concept of wealth re-distribution is considered by some to be inappropriate and unconstitutional. Thus, the goal of wealth re-distribution is pretty much hidden in with the actions and policies of Use #4 (social policy manipulation).Use # 4, however, is where the complexity enters the Taxation system. Policy implementation through taxation (or through spending) occurs via legislation. Legislation (law making) is inherently complex and subject to gross manipulation by special interests during formation and amendments. Legislation is subject to interpretation, is prone to errors (leading to loopholes) and both unintentional or intentional (criminal / fraudulent) avoidance.The record keeping and forms referred to in the question are partially due to the basic formula for calculating taxes (i.e., percentage of income, cost of property, amount of purchase for a sales tax, ...). However, it is the complexity (and associated opportunities for exploitation) of taxation legislation for Use # 4 (Social Policy implementation) that naturally leads to complexity in the reporting requirements for the tax system.

As someone who has lived in both countries, I simply cannot begin to fatham how the U.S. and Japan would become a single united culture. U.S. and Japanese culture is so far apart in many ways.But, if I HAD to do it, here is how I would do it:First, the government would be modeled after the US government with the same constitution.Second, I would drastically…DRASTICALLY reduce the power of the federal government. Every administrative agency except those involved with law enforcement and tax collection would be gone and all responsibility would go to the states. Basically, we have the FBI, CIA, USCIS, IRS, and the like. We would still have the military as well. I would also etch in the Constitution that this is all the federal government will ever be responsible for: no growth in federal power. The federal government will only be responsible for protecting the God-given freedoms of its citizens (both internally and externally), and that’s it. All other powers will be the responsibility of the state.Third, Japan would be the 51st state.And that’s that. The Japanese will be able to maintain their cultural norms without government interference. At the same time, the rest of America can do the same.