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A proof-of-concept formalization of the IRS federal tax forms

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A Hacker News "Show HN" project formalizes the IRS federal individual income tax forms and instructions as cited, machine-checkable YAML data, with a guided self-preparation interview as its first client. The software computes values and explains them but never files or transmits returns.

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