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A comment on Show HN: Calculator for US individual income tax, from 1970-present. Parent comment

Re:Show HN: Calculator for US individual income tax, from 19... by PopAlongKid on Wednesday June 29, 2022 @07:53PM (#31927185)
It has been proposed in professional tax forums that this is in fact how tax code should be legislated, using some kind of pseudo-code. Even just using symbols for things such as >=, <, and so on would eliminate a lot of the garbage in the verbal version.
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Re:Show HN: Calculator for US individual income tax, from 19... by philsnow on Thursday June 30, 2022 @02:30AM (#31929263)
This would be incredible -- it feels like the tax form documentation is written in a dialect of Accounting English from the 50s, and just little things like adding some parentheses to group and/or con/disjunctions would go a long ways.

Nearly every year I don't feel confident that I've filled out my taxes accurately, and it's not for lack of trying.

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