The Des Moines Register notices that our crackerjack legislature has caused thousands of Iowa teachers to botch their tax returns:
Iowa educators who took a state tax deduction this year for school supply expenses will be required to pay a few dollars back to the state, tax leaders say.
Iowa legislators this year declined to adopt the deduction filed by many of IowaTags: Expiring provisions, Iowa tax administration, iowa tax policy
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This is such a bad plan. Honestly, they should let the teachers keep the money. Not because it’s unfair, but because an unstable tax plan makes people save more than they really need to, because they’re worried that they’ll suddenly get hit with a tax after the fact: http://www.taxrascal.com/swamped-an-unstable-tax-code-is-worse-than-high-taxes/292/