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Am I being dumb or does this not actually contain the facts about the tax code? Is the /demo/all-facts file supposed to be the “real” facts? Are the XML fact fi

Am I being dumb or does this not actually contain the facts about the tax code? Is the /demo/all-facts file supposed to be the “real” facts? Are the XML fact files provided in another location? It’s pretty cool to see the way that the IRS handles defining and maintaining its tax calculations, but also a machine-readable tax code seems cool too.

ronbenton 1y ago
I believe the actual IRS tax code implementation is in a separate repo here: https://github.com/IRS-Public/direct-file https://github.com/IRS-Public/direct-file while the originally linked repo is the fact graph tooling decoupled from the tax implementation.
- tyingq 1y ago
  Look like many of them are specifically the xml files here: https://github.com/IRS-Public/direct-file/tree/e0d5c84451cc52b72d20d04652e306bf4af1a43c/direct-file/backend/src/main/resources/tax https://github.com/IRS-Public/direct-file/tree/e0d5c84451cc5...
  - ronbenton 1y ago
    I was just reading through those! A bit dizzying
- kumavis 1y ago
  specifically here https://github.com/IRS-Public/direct-file/tree/main/direct-file/backend/src/main/resources/tax https://github.com/IRS-Public/direct-file/tree/main/direct-f...
MangoToupe 1y ago
As far as I am aware, fact just means shared assumption. This seems entirely reasonable for a tax code.
kmoser 1y ago
From https://github.com/IRS-Public/fact-graph/blob/main/docs/fact-graph-3.1-adr.md https://github.com/IRS-Public/fact-graph/blob/main/docs/fact...: > Standardize Fact Dictionaries as a canonical format for declaratively modeling tax logic
classified 1y ago
It looks like just an HTTP interface to a database, not the actual data.