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Developer builds 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 project on GitHub that formalizes US federal tax forms from the Internal Revenue Service into a structured, machine-readable model. The project, called us-tax-model, is drawing attention on Hacker News, where commenters are discussing whether a formal representation of the tax code could make filing more transparent and automatable, and debating the challenges of keeping such a model accurate as rules change.
Why now: People are interested in whether formalizing the tax code could simplify or automate US tax filing.
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