Thanks For Paying Taxes. Here's A Receipt.

Re:Thanks For Paying Taxes. Here's A Receipt. by aresant on Thursday September 30, 2010 @07:37PM (#1745312)

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

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Re:Thanks For Paying Taxes. Here's A Receipt. by dkasper on Thursday September 30, 2010 @08:46PM (#1745501)

Your wish is my command: http://www.incometaxreceipt.com

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Re:Thanks For Paying Taxes. Here's A Receipt. by blackguardx on Friday October 01, 2010 @01:24AM (#1746115)

Your calculator is wrong. Social security taxes have a cap on them.

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Re:Thanks For Paying Taxes. Here's A Receipt. by taxreceipt on Thursday September 30, 2010 @08:58PM (#1745529)

I built one too. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1745574

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Re:Thanks For Paying Taxes. Here's A Receipt. by gnaritas on Thursday September 30, 2010 @09:04PM (#1745550)

Where is it?

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Re:Thanks For Paying Taxes. Here's A Receipt. by volare on Thursday September 30, 2010 @09:09PM (#1745568)

It is http://www.yourtaxreceipt.org

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Re:Thanks For Paying Taxes. Here's A Receipt. by stuaxo on Thursday September 30, 2010 @09:10PM (#1745573)

Maybe some colour categorisation + colour coding so it's easy to see how much different bits cost. http://imgur.com/gxSxk

As you get more data you could maybe make it possible to drill down to get more detail too.

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Re:Thanks For Paying Taxes. Here's A Receipt. by jwerlin on Friday October 01, 2010 @12:36AM (#1746027)

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.

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Re:Thanks For Paying Taxes. Here's A Receipt. by aresant on Thursday September 30, 2010 @09:36PM (#1745639)

Quick Q - did u email to 3rd way? NPR?

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Re:Thanks For Paying Taxes. Here's A Receipt. by ryanwaggoner on Thursday September 30, 2010 @09:08PM (#1745561)

You've got a misplaced decimal in your calculations somewhere, as your numbers add up to less than 10% of what I put in.

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Re:Thanks For Paying Taxes. Here's A Receipt. by dkasper on Thursday September 30, 2010 @09:19PM (#1745600)

heh, I fixed it.

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Re:Thanks For Paying Taxes. Here's A Receipt. by aresant on Friday October 01, 2010 @12:57PM (#1747673)

I emailed Jacob @ NPR (article writer) as well as the paper authors, share stats if you would as they come in -

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Re:Thanks For Paying Taxes. Here's A Receipt. by karzeem on Thursday September 30, 2010 @10:03PM (#1745698)

Just finished putting this one together: http://taxes.kareemshaya.com

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Re:Thanks For Paying Taxes. Here's A Receipt. by nowarninglabel on Thursday September 30, 2010 @09:24PM (#1745615)

Nice idea, so I put something up at: 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).

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