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Developer releases formal model of IRS tax forms

Original: Show HN: A proof-of-concept formalization of the IRS federal tax forms

A developer has published a proof-of-concept that formalizes the logic of United States federal tax forms as a structured, machine-readable model, released on GitHub. The project turns the rules embedded in IRS paperwork into something that can be computed and verified. Commenters are debating how feasible it is to encode the tax code this way and what such a model could mean for tax filing software and transparency.

Why now: It offers an unusually concrete, open attempt to turn the notoriously complex US tax filing system into formal, computable logic.

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