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The IRS open sourced their direct-file code after it got cut. IIRC similar work done there. https://github.com/IRS-Public/direct-file

comment by celestialcheese · 2026-10-29 · in Dayjob: Tax – evaluating AI agents on 50 professional tax assignments

…too. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45599567 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44131901 https://github.com/IRS-Public/direct-file/blob/main/direct-f... The graph is xml.

comment by jauntywundrkind · 2026-03-14 · in XML is a cheap DSL

…down by the current administration. And no, it was way more effort than what two interns could do. https://github.com/IRS-Public/direct-file

comment by kccqzy · 2025-12-08 · in Millions of Americans mess up their taxes, but a new law will help

…filing and the current admin killed it. Maybe we’ll get it back in three years after regime change. https://github.com/IRS-Public/direct-file https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...

comment by toomuchtodo · 2025-12-08 · in Millions of Americans mess up their taxes, but a new law will help

https://github.com/IRS-Public/direct-file <- Direct File's web app source code is public-domain and published on GitHub! Obviously the 2025 version will be out of date for the 2026 filing season, though public code means it can always be…

comment by hyperrail · 2025-11-05 · in Direct File won't happen in 2026, IRS tells states

…of tax questions... surely some combination of LLM and structured data querying could solve this? https://github.com/IRS-Public/direct-file/tree/main

comment by i_dont_know_ · 2025-10-16 · in TaxCalcBench: Evaluating Frontier Models on the Tax Calculation Task

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

comment by theknarf · 2025-10-16 · in TurboTax’s 20-year fight to stop Americans from filing taxes for free (2019)

…3: https://www.cnbc.com/2025/07/30/irs-chief-says-agency-plans-... 4: https://github.com/IRS-Public/direct-file

comment by roxolotl · 2025-10-16 · in TurboTax’s 20-year fight to stop Americans from filing taxes for free (2019)

specifically here https://github.com/IRS-Public/direct-file/tree/main/direct-f...

comment by kumavis · 2025-10-16 · in IRS open sources its fact graph

Look like many of them are specifically the xml files here: https://github.com/IRS-Public/direct-file/tree/e0d5c84451cc5...

comment by tyingq · 2025-10-16 · in IRS open sources its fact graph

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.

comment by ronbenton · 2025-10-16 · in IRS open sources its fact graph

…In particular there's a pretty nice inline tutorial that's still there in that release: https://github.com/IRS-Public/direct-file/blob/main/direct-f...

comment by jauntywundrkind · 2025-10-16 · in IRS open sources its fact graph

…Graph was already opensourced a couple months ago and that version of the factgraph lives here: https://github.com/IRS-Public/direct-file/tree/main/direct-f... I'm curious why a second repository was created for this.

comment by tallowen · 2025-10-15 · in IRS open sources its fact graph

Some of the DirectFile code was published on GitHub. https://github.com/IRS-Public/direct-file

comment by Hilift · 2025-08-01 · in IRS head says free Direct File tax service is 'gone'

Its a custom license apparently, but its public domain for the US. https://github.com/IRS-Public/direct-file/blob/main/LICENSE Was required to be open-sourced from the SHARE IT act. One of the most common-sense bills in a long time.…

comment by holysoles · 2025-08-01 · in IRS head says free Direct File tax service is 'gone'

…https://chrisgiven.com/2025/06/saying-goodbye/ https://chrisgiven.com/2025/05/direct-file-on-github/ https://github.com/IRS-Public/direct-file (In the latest version of the bill being negotiated in Congress, the language to sunset Direct…

comment by toomuchtodo · 2025-07-01 · in Show HN: A continuation of IRS Direct File that can be self-hosted

IRS knows what a bifunctor is. What an amazing day https://github.com/IRS-Public/direct-file/blob/9dd76a786ea69...

comment by 1-more · 2025-06-09 · in IRS Direct File on GitHub

…can take for healthcare costs. The IRS says you can iterate until you get stable values. [2] [1] https://github.com/IRS-Public/direct-file/blob/main/direct-f... [2] https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-drop/rp-14-41.pdf

comment by throw678937 · 2025-06-05 · in IRS Direct File on GitHub

…people to import their W2s and 1099-INTs automatically based on the information the IRS had: https://github.com/IRS-Public/direct-file/blob/main/direct-f...

comment by tallowen · 2025-06-05 · in IRS Direct File on GitHub

…Direct File imported W2s, 1099-INTs and other data during the filing season that ended in April. https://github.com/IRS-Public/direct-file/blob/main/direct-f...

comment by tallowen · 2025-06-05 · in IRS Direct File on GitHub

The code that defines how the fact graph works is here: https://github.com/IRS-Public/direct-file/tree/main/direct-f... but the actual tax definitions that deal with facts and derived calculation are here:…

comment by timhigins · 2025-06-04 · in IRS Direct File on GitHub

Is this common in Java? https://github.com/IRS-Public/direct-file/blob/9dd76a786ea69...

comment by 90s_dev · 2025-06-04 · in IRS Direct File on GitHub

There's a good presentation deck in the repo worth a quick read: https://github.com/IRS-Public/direct-file/blob/main/docs/eng...

comment by BHSPitMonkey · 2025-06-04 · in IRS Direct File

…not directly viewable online since they're within zip files; see flow1.zip and flow2.zip) 0: https://github.com/IRS-Public/direct-file/tree/main/docs/des...

comment by pimlottc · 2025-06-04 · in IRS Direct File on GitHub

…accidentally made a new repo as just a submodule pointer instead of actually committing the files? https://github.com/IRS-Public/direct-file/commit/2f3ebd66932... It's also fun that, because this is from the US, they can't just use CC0,…

comment by timerol · 2025-06-04 · in IRS Direct File on GitHub

Found the repo over here if anyone is curious. https://github.com/IRS-Public/direct-file

comment by jmisavage · 2025-06-04 · in IRS Direct File on GitHub

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

comment by zb3 · 2025-06-04 · in IRS Direct File on GitHub

…it up to Excel to determine how to solve the spreadsheet. This is their data-relational langage. https://github.com/IRS-Public/direct-file/blob/main/direct-f...

comment by jauntywundrkind · 2025-05-30 · in IRS Direct File

…the opening of tax filing season and penalties aren't commonly enforced for submitting w2s on time. https://github.com/IRS-Public/direct-file/blob/main/direct-f...

comment by tallowen · 2025-05-30 · in IRS Direct File