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Re:Open Source Tax Software by wahern on Tuesday October 05, 2021 @03:11AM (#28756352)
AFAIU, the French Tax Code is effectively defined in terms of an algorithm. There was a recent HN thread (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25208853) on a new open-source compiler for the tax code (https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.07966). The paper for the compiler references some interesting literature on the computability of legal codes. For example,

> [U.S.] tax law drafting style follows default logic, a non-monotonic logic that is hard to encode in languages with first-order logic (FOL).

Re:Open Source Tax Software by 6510 on Tuesday October 05, 2021 @06:24PM (#28766500)
Fascinating. I thought Estonia was the only one who kept an eye on difficulty of implementation.