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Have fun keeping this up to date. It's an admirable idea, but the tax forms and rules change significantly every year. I built a payroll system for a suite of small and medium sized businesses back in the day. Even during a stable administration the rules are impossible to keep up with. We had a team of engineers who every year had to spend weeks to months trying to keep it up to date and verify the numbers. It's why my accountant makes $400/hr and why there are no open source projects that have ever taken hold in the market.<p>> Most tax software derives trust from the party who maintains it (e.g. Intuit, the IRS, etc.)<p>Because they have the resources to keep it up to date. And even they get it wrong sometimes. Including the IRS itself: <a href="https://www.irs.gov/e-file-providers/known-issues-and-solutions" rel="nofollow">https://www.irs.gov/e-file-providers/known-issues-and-soluti...</a>
Author here: if you want a detailed overview of the project, the spec is better than the (claude-authored) README file:<p><a href="https://github.com/emmilco/us-tax-model/blob/main/spec/spec.md" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/emmilco/us-tax-model/blob/main/spec/spec....</a>
Recent and related: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50278497">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50278497</a>
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