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Nice viral night's project would be building a simple yourtaxreceipt.com website, reverse engineering those numbers and making a calculator.

• dkasper 16y ago
  Your wish is my command: http://www.incometaxreceipt.com http://www.incometaxreceipt.com
  • taxreceipt 16y ago
    I built one too. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1745574 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1745574
    • gnaritas 16y ago
      Where is it?
      • volare 16y ago
        It is http://www.yourtaxreceipt.org http://www.yourtaxreceipt.org
  • ryanwaggoner 16y ago
    You've got a misplaced decimal in your calculations somewhere, as your numbers add up to less than 10% of what I put in.
    • dkasper 16y ago
      heh, I fixed it.
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  • stuaxo 16y ago
    Maybe some colour categorisation + colour coding so it's easy to see how much different bits cost. http://imgur.com/gxSxk http://imgur.com/gxSxk As you get more data you could maybe make it possible to drill down to get more detail too.
  • deleted 16y ago
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  • aresant 16y ago
    Quick Q - did u email to 3rd way? NPR?
  • jwerlin 16y ago
    Your rock, nicely done. One suggestion: Maybe base the calculator off of Gross Income? That number is arguably better known by people than taxes paid. Just a thought.
  • blackguardx 16y ago
    Your calculator is wrong. Social security taxes have a cap on them.
  • aresant 16y ago
    I emailed Jacob @ NPR (article writer) as well as the paper authors, share stats if you would as they come in -
• nowarninglabel 16y ago
  Nice idea, so I put something up at: http://www.yourtaxreceipt.com http://www.yourtaxreceipt.com Haven't added the calculator yet, trying to garner from the feedback about how to be more accurate in reporting (given the feelings about the npr depiction).
• karzeem 16y ago
  Just finished putting this one together: http://taxes.kareemshaya.com http://taxes.kareemshaya.com