[HN Gopher] UsTaxes - open-source tax filing web application
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       UsTaxes - open-source tax filing web application
        
       Author : steviedotboston
       Score  : 23 points
       Date   : 2021-07-29 16:44 UTC (6 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (ustaxes.org)
 (TXT) w3m dump (ustaxes.org)
        
       | junar wrote:
       | Sadly, this is a long way from being production-ready. It really
       | does take a lot of work to create a reasonably feature-complete
       | tax preparation software. Purely judging by 2020 standards, since
       | that's what's nominally supported:
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       | * Forms 1099-R and SSA-1099 are unsupported. Retirees, or anyone
       | that took a COVID-related distribution, can't use this.
       | 
       | * Form 1099-G Box 1 is unsupported. Many people took unemployment
       | during the pandemic, and need to report that income on their
       | return.
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       | * Prior-year earned income for ACTC and EITC is unsupported. Many
       | folks earned more in 2019 than in 2020, and could get larger tax
       | credits by computing the credits using their 2019 income.
       | 
       | * Schedule C is unsupported. Many folks have at least some self-
       | employment income. [1]
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       | [1]https://quickbooks.intuit.com/self-employed/report/
       | 
       | As for software I can recommend to an end user:
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       | https://www.irs.gov/filing/free-file-do-your-federal-taxes-f...
       | https://www.myfreetaxes.com/
       | 
       | And for comparison, a more complete solution from an independent
       | creator:
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       | https://sites.google.com/view/incometaxspreadsheet/home
        
       | mdaniel wrote:
       | To pick on one of the more recent PRs that landed, I would think
       | easily 80% of the value of "legislation into TypeScript" would be
       | *annotating* that source code with the citation where followers
       | on could verify the calculation and teaching future contributors
       | to fish
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       | Otherwise, I, too, can just make up 1.45 numbers:
       | https://github.com/ustaxes/UsTaxes/pull/422/files#diff-76e87...
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       | The contributor guide spends a lot of words specifying commit
       | format, and then just says "ask in discord" for the actual
       | content of the tax calculations :-(
       | https://github.com/ustaxes/UsTaxes/blob/master/docs/CONTRIBU...
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       | To come back to a technical discussion, I thought the best
       | practice was not to use floating point numbers for currency, and
       | that goes "double" for JS's `Number` which like everything else
       | in JS is kind of loosey-goosey about accuracy anyway:
       | https://github.com/ustaxes/UsTaxes/blob/v0.1.4/src/irsForms/...
        
         | brundolf wrote:
         | It's a great idea, but based on your points it seems like this
         | implementation ain't it
        
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