2017 Tax Software Developer's Guides and Test Cases

Re:2017 Tax Software Developer's Guides and Test Cases by hutattedonmyarm on Sunday April 08, 2018 @01:09AM (#16784715)

I found out yesterday that the German government provides a flowchart for developers wanting to calculate income tax

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Re:2017 Tax Software Developer's Guides and Test Cases by lima on Sunday April 08, 2018 @05:18AM (#16785356)

And they even provide an API you can run tests against, to ensure that your implementation is correct:

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Re:2017 Tax Software Developer's Guides and Test Cases by W0lf on Sunday April 08, 2018 @01:19AM (#16784737)

Can you provide a link to the mentioned flowchart as well, please?

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Re:2017 Tax Software Developer's Guides and Test Cases by germanier on Sunday April 08, 2018 @03:52AM (#16785121)

However, this is the calculation for the monthly (pay as you go) wage tax and other deductions and not the yearly income tax.

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Re:2017 Tax Software Developer's Guides and Test Cases by gorky1 on Sunday April 08, 2018 @03:58AM (#16785137)

There's a pdf version as well:

The problem is in computing the input values; it's quite hard to figure out without examples, except the most simple cases.

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