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French tax and benefit system for OpenFisca

8 mentions on Hacker News by 8 people: 0 stories, 8 comments · first 2020-10-09 · latest 2026-07-29

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  1. …since it’s mostly in French, but France has somthing similar as open source for their tax system: https://github.com/openfisca/openfisca-france/
  2. …more than mlang). We've extended it to the UK [3] and the US [4]. [1] https://openfisca.org [2] https://github.com/openfisca/openfisca-france [3] https://github.com/policyengine/openfisca-uk [4] https://github.com/policyengine/openfisca-us
  3. …a few days ago), and passes the gov test suite (they keep in touch with our version of the IRS): https://github.com/openfisca/openfisca-france The way we got this is interestingly twisted. French citizens requested the software used by the…
    comment by BiteCode_dev · 2021-10-05 · in Open Source Tax Software
  4. …its disclosure by the authors. Here's the pull request for their fix to the benefits simulator: https://github.com/openfisca/openfisca-france/issues/1426
    comment by hobbyjogger · 2021-05-06 · in Catala: A Programming Language for the Law
  5. …They’ve also open sourced an official calculator, along with web APIs: https://github.com/openfisca/openfisca-france
  6. The French government and parliament also use this implementation of the law (taxes, benefits, ...) : https://github.com/openfisca/openfisca-france It's open source and contributive so, a common structure is used by multiple countries.…
    comment by sandcha · 2020-11-25 · in A Modern Compiler for the French Tax Code
  7. Most of the French socio-fiscal system can be simulated in Python through https://github.com/openfisca/openfisca-france/ .
    comment by creuset · 2020-11-25 · in A Modern Compiler for the French Tax Code
  8. …broader project that can compute most taxes and benefits for France (and a few other countries) : https://github.com/openfisca/openfisca-france It would be quite interesting to check that both the French IRS implementation of the tax &…