I've always read Americans complaining about having to do "taxes" each year. For low income independent income here in Argentina we have a form we need to fill every 6 months that only has -Gross income (we make it up) -Surface on commercial property (you can't make it up) -Rent of commercial property -Electricity consume (same) -I swear I haven't sold a single item for more than 450 USD And that's it, it only work fow up to 70k +/- per year gross income and 200m2 of commercial area. But it allows small independent projects to not be burned with lots of accounting