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The entire reason that tax software is hard is that it can NEVER produce a wrong answer. Plus tax law is about ten thousand times more complicated than you're a
by estimator7292 1y ago
The entire reason that tax software is hard is that it can NEVER produce a wrong answer. Plus tax law is about ten thousand times more complicated than you're assuming.
- charcircuit 1y ago>it can NEVER produce a wrong answer As the government it should be possible to reduce the negative impact of making mistakes. >Plus tax law is about ten thousand times more complicated than you're assuming. Then start simple. You don't have to cover all of tax law at the start.
- esprehn 1y agoPeople file incorrect tax amounts all the time. It's the government's job to verify the return and either refund you or request more money. There's a decent margin for error, and not all returns are audited so the IRS must also have a margin for error they're building policy and budgets around.
- wilg 1y ago1% of returns filed by tax software have errors, which is infinitely more than 0%
- dlcarrier 1y agoNo tax software or expert will never produce a wrong answer, because too many questions have no guaranteed right answer, due to inconsistent interpretatios within the IRS. Tax filing is a matter of risk balancing, which heuristics are great at optimizing, if they incorporate enough data. Neural networks are ideal for that, but it would take a lot of data gathering to develop the model, from data that isn't easily scraped from Web pages.