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Re:Show HN: Calculator for US individual income tax, from 19... by runlevel1 on Wednesday June 29, 2022 @07:01PM (#31926795)
NBER's biggest contributors are the US government. Ironically, the IRS isn't one of them.[1]

As an aside, I'd love to see US gov research grants start requiring the work product to be made open source.

[1]: https://www.nber.org/about-nber/support-funding

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Re:Show HN: Calculator for US individual income tax, from 19... by MaxGhenis on Wednesday June 29, 2022 @08:34PM (#31927443)
Agreed. We're building an open source version of taxsim (plus benefit rules) at https://github.com/policyengine/openfisca-us.
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