[AlexTWithBeard]

Well, the easy part of tax filing is easy: yes, it's a bit tedious in a sense that you have to copy some stuff from your W2 to 1040, but that's it.

Calculating part time rental property depreciation is complicated, but that's because it IS complicated.

[sokoloff]

Exactly. The ordinary earned income portion of our income is 80% or more of our income and 1-2% of the tax filing burden/complexity.

[LikesPwsh]

The imbalance is that it's more like 2% of tax complexity but 80% (made up numbers) of time spent.

Assuming no submission is equivalent to a submission with earned income only (standard in Europe) would save an incredible amount of time.