For some reason the game-to-real-life interface has tended to remain the purview of corporate metaverse fictions. Tax Heaven 3000 simply makes the fiction the point. Videogames are, at the end of the day, pieces of software–ontologically akin to Microsoft Word. It’s the most boring industry imaginable. But, corporate tax filing services are (by dint of extensive lobbying) predatory, parasitic bottlenecks that deliberately complicate the tax filing process in order to make it unnavigable by ordinary people.Īnd it works! The villainous corporation that controls the government from the shadows is a sadly mundane reality.

Most wealthy countries make tax filing free, if the burden of preparation is even passed along to individuals at all. ) Tax Heaven 3000 appears to play like a standard dating sim, but you have to put your Social Security Number in, sharply increasing the player’s level of trust in the lovely Iris.ĭeveloped by MSCHF - who also released Chair Simulator on Steam in 2021 - the creators describe what Tax Heaven 3000 is really all about in its product description:

It’s for single filers without dependents, if you get what I’m saying. Tax Heaven 3000 stars Iris, a comely young woman who is definitely into you and into helping you prepare a United States federal income tax return. federal income taxes are due on April 18, and if you haven’t already filed, you have an exciting new option: Tax Heaven 3000, an anime-style visual novel/dating sim that will also help you file your tax return.

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