aidangrimshaw

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by aidangrimshaw 5y ago
I'm working with other contributors on https://ustaxes.org , an open source tax filing webapp https://github.com/ustaxes/UsTaxes . Currently, many Federal tax forms are supported, as well as tax filing f
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by aidangrimshaw 5y ago
I'm working with some other contributors on ustaxes, an open source project aimed at helping tackle free tax filing https://github.com/ustaxes/UsTaxes
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We built a secret apartment in the mall (2007)(trummerkind.com)
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Open Source Tax Software for Filing US Taxes(fosspost.org)
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by aidangrimshaw 5y ago
Plug for ustaxes, an open source project aimed at helping tackle free and easy tax filing https://github.com/ustaxes/UsTaxes
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Open Source Tax Software(ctskennerton.github.io)
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BoGL Board Game Language(bogl.engr.oregonstate.edu)
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by aidangrimshaw 6y ago
Hi I am one of the maintainers for ustaxes, here is a US tax model in the same vein as OpenFisca https://github.com/PSLmodels/Tax-Calculator
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Oregon Clean Power Co-op(oregoncleanpower.coop)
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by aidangrimshaw 6y ago
That's absolutely fair! I think finding a solution to this will be key to any kind of mainstream adoption
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by aidangrimshaw 6y ago
That whois information is interesting, I registered the domain through google domains. The Canadian company is probably being used by google for whoisguard reasons? The site runs client side only, with no external API calls, so assuming you
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by aidangrimshaw 6y ago
That's a good idea
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by aidangrimshaw 6y ago
A future improvement I am looking into is adding unit tests for tax calculation. If the project gets popular enough I would probably hire an accountant to verify everything.
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by aidangrimshaw 6y ago
Other types of income are definitely in the works, W2 income was just implemented first because it's the most common and the least complex. Rare types of income like trusts (K9) will probably never be supported though because of the su
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by aidangrimshaw 6y ago
Thanks! I'll check it out
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by aidangrimshaw 6y ago
I agree, at some point I may try to factor out the tax calculation portion and add it as an external npm package or similar. The only similar thing I could find was https://www.npmjs.com/package/taxee-tax-statistics bu
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by aidangrimshaw 6y ago
Right now only federal taxes are implemented but state taxes are in the works! The site is implemented client side & no external API calls are made so the code in the repository is the only thing that would be touching personal informat
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by aidangrimshaw 6y ago
Thanks! I think that comment is actually from before the computeTax function was fully implemented. If you fill out W2 and spouse information on the website the correct tax rate should be calculated in the printed 1040 form
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by aidangrimshaw 6y ago
A checklist of supported forms is something that's in the works. Right now the only supported type of income is W2 wages. The reason I chose React is I wanted the site to be client side only, fitting with SPA, to avoid having a databas
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by aidangrimshaw 6y ago
This is federal only right now, I plan to work on state taxes in the future, but I wanted to get the basic federal forms done first. The readme also definitely needs some work! It's on my list of future improvements :)
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Show HN: ustaxes.org – open-source tax filing webapp(github.com)
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by aidangrimshaw 6y ago
Yeah one solution I was thinking about is using something like Tabula to parse to parse pdf text. It's still kind of tricky to match what text matches up to which form label, but is definitely easier than OCR
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Ask HN: What are the best tools for extracting tax data from a W2 form?
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by aidangrimshaw 6y ago
I am working on building a free / open source tax filing website focused on filling the Federal 1040 form https://ustaxes.org/w2employerinfo I am building the site to be client-side only using React, Redux-persist, and
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by aidangrimshaw 6y ago
Open source federal income tax calculator / filer https://ustaxes.org/w2employerinfo https://github.com/thegrims/UsTaxes
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Causes of the Great Housing Shortage(oregoneconomicanalysis.com)
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Show HN: Linux Webcam Automation(github.com)
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