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- * Let's build a public domain open source tax engine so all Americans can do their taxes using simple copy and paste.

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- * In addition to the GitHub, today I created a Subreddit and Twitter for the CopyPasteTaxes project.

- * I am confident in the technology and believe if we can build a community we can solve this problem for the American people.

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- * Website

- * Here is a list of alternatives considered and related links.

- https://github.com/ustaxes/UsTaxes

- https://sites.google.com/view/incometaxspreadsheet/home

- https://openfisca.org/en

- https://github.com/MLanguage/mlang

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- * At this stage there are more questions than answers.

- * Another way to ask this question—what are all the forms that the IRS accepts from citizens that the citizen has to fill out?

- * These forms can be thought of as the "compile targets". CopyPasteTaxes will be a Tree Language that "compiles" (aka generates) these final forms.

- * These forms may be PDF. Or maybe XML. Or JSON. Or something else. I'm not sure what the IRS accepts. This is something to figure out.

- * It will be good to see how many types of forms there are, who files what, and how many are filed each year (and trends).

- * These would be things like W2's and 1099's. How many of these types of forms are there?

- * How many does the average citizen send in each year?

- * My guess is these forms we just need to understand in terms of what fields we'd need to extract for the language for copying into the compile targets.

- * Who has made some great checklists on every workflow that can happen with the IRS?

- * This one will probably be a real snoozer. What are the all calcuations necessary to help figure out the right numbers to put in the compile targets?

- * Should CopyPasteTaxes only do personal taxes? What about for self-employed people? It may be hard to only do personal, as that might exclude self-employed people, who may be the ones who most need CopyPasteTaxes.

- * Federal is first, but then how can we make it so we compile to other state level targets as well?

- * Should CopyPasteTaxes help with itemized expenses? What would that entail? Would a sub DSL for receipts make sense?

- * Everyone knows April 15th. What are the other dates to have on the calendar?

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- * It looks like a single person committed one dollar to the crowdfunding campaign on Indiegogo, although at this time I cannot confirm that it was not just a software bug. According to my earlier checklist the proper course of action now then is to "return to other things".

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- * The main problem with giving up on this is I'm pretty darn confident that this tech is the proper way to solve this problem, and maybe I shouldn't let a complete and utter lack of sales, business, and marketing talent extinguish the dream. Plus, I still have to do my damn taxes every year and it's going to keep annoying me to not do things the right way.

- * I spoke to some entrepreneurs interested in the space as a business opportunity and I could see if you had the right team around this idea how perhaps it could be a good bet. The very least I can do is flesh out a prototype.

- * So despite the atrocious Indiegogo go, I have decided to invest at least a few more hours into building something that you can click some buttons.

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