I have actually gotten shipping notifications from Amazon when I placed the order on eBay.

Several times I have purchased an item on email only to have it arrive from Amazon. The sellers were using both sites and there was no way to tell from the eBay listings. Big sad.

This instance might help you: https://lemmy.world/c/keeptrack (Someone else doing similar.)

If it’s their original thought, or I’m including their comment on the thing they shared, then I include the username.

If they’ve just reposted an image with no extra commentary, I only share the image and not where I found it. Since “where I found it” is not the original source, no attribution is necessary imho.

So I’m an American expat living in Australia. Australia has had the option to file directly to ATO, electronically, longer than I’ve been here. (Google suggests since 1999? So, more than 20 years.) It’s an easy process if you have a straightforward tax return.

It never ceases to amaze me how far behind the rest of the world USA is in some things that just seem like really obvious solutions. Like… Why wouldn’t the IRS want to get tax returns filed directly from the tax payers, skipping the middleman? At least for simple returns. More simplicity, less confusion all around if they get everyone onto the same system. Less paper to wade through, by significantly reducing paper returns. Etc.

It just seems like such a no-brainer. But I guess that’s why it doesn’t work in the USA. >.<