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CMV: Teaching “Doing Taxes” Isn’t a Worthwhile Thing to Teach Kids (US)

People love to talk about teaching kids practical life skills in school. I agree that kids should learn things like budgeting, first aid/CPR and maybe some cooking or something. However, whenever someone raises this, they inevitably mention “learn to do your taxes.”  This is a dumb thing to teach kids. First, the tax code changes, so the knowledge will be stale before it’s relevant to the kids. Their filing status also changes. In addition, almost everyone uses software to prepare it, so unless they are learning how to use every type of tax prep software, they aren’t benefiting. Finally, it supposes that we will always have a complicated system of tax preparation. We shouldn’t encourage that by baking that assumption into our education system. 

(Note: this is obviously US centric. I have no idea about other lands.)
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>First, the tax code changes, so the knowledge will be stale before it’s relevant to the kids.

The tax code doesn't change _that_ much for most individuals year over year.  Most folks will just take the standard deduction and have little income outside of their salary.  For them, filing taxes today isn't that different than filling them 10 years ago.

Moreover, even if a few details change, the forms and the process is still fairly static.  Learning _that_ can be valuable.

>Their filing status also changes.

There are only a few filing statuses - all of which can be taught as the differences are fairly minor.

>In addition, almost everyone uses software to prepare it, so unless they are learning how to use every type of tax prep software, they aren’t benefiting.

You can still teach them the basics of how tax returns work.  With that knowledge, you can use most tax prep software much easier.

>Finally, it supposes that we will always have a complicated system of tax preparation.

So long as companies like Intuit are involved, this is a given.  While simplifying the tax code is a good goal, we should teach people to operate in the world as it is, not how we wished it would be.