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Re:IRS Open Sources its Fact Graph by vineyardmike on Wednesday October 15, 2025 @08:53PM (#45600282)
Am I being dumb or does this not actually contain the facts about the tax code? Is the /demo/all-facts file supposed to be the “real” facts? Are the XML fact files provided in another location?

It’s pretty cool to see the way that the IRS handles defining and maintaining its tax calculations, but also a machine-readable tax code seems cool too.

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Re:IRS Open Sources its Fact Graph by ronbenton on Wednesday October 15, 2025 @08:57PM (#45600307)
I believe the actual IRS tax code implementation is in a separate repo here: https://github.com/IRS-Public/direct-file while the originally linked repo is the fact graph tooling decoupled from the tax implementation.
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Re:IRS Open Sources its Fact Graph by tyingq on Wednesday October 15, 2025 @09:13PM (#45600407)
Look like many of them are specifically the xml files here:

https://github.com/IRS-Public/direct-file/tree/e0d5c84451cc5...

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Re:IRS Open Sources its Fact Graph by ronbenton on Wednesday October 15, 2025 @09:15PM (#45600414)
I was just reading through those! A bit dizzying
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Re:IRS Open Sources its Fact Graph by kumavis on Wednesday October 15, 2025 @09:19PM (#45600440)
specifically here https://github.com/IRS-Public/direct-file/tree/main/direct-f...
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Re:IRS Open Sources its Fact Graph by kmoser on Wednesday October 15, 2025 @11:47PM (#45601238)
From https://github.com/IRS-Public/fact-graph/blob/main/docs/fact...:

> Standardize Fact Dictionaries as a canonical format for declaratively modeling tax logic

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Re:IRS Open Sources its Fact Graph by MangoToupe on Wednesday October 15, 2025 @09:44PM (#45600594)
As far as I am aware, fact just means shared assumption. This seems entirely reasonable for a tax code.
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Re:IRS Open Sources its Fact Graph by classified on Thursday October 16, 2025 @06:43AM (#45603798)
It looks like just an HTTP interface to a database, not the actual data.
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