[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":884},["ShallowReactive",2],{"project-26138446":3},{"id":4,"name":5,"line":6,"line_source":7,"title":8,"url":9,"domain":10,"maker":11,"posted_at":12,"year":13,"points":14,"comments":15,"rank_in_year":16,"shown_in_year":17,"top":18,"tier":19,"category":20,"subcategory":21,"format":22,"keywords":23,"reception":27,"sentiment":28,"stance_mix":29,"scored_comments":32,"aspects":33,"strip":42,"post_text":45,"what":46,"said":85,"maker_in_thread":218,"shape":230,"grid":234,"attempts":844,"same_week":845,"maker_shows":38,"maker_hidden":876,"reader_version":877,"card":878},"26138446","ustaxes.org","open-source tax filing webapp","title","Show HN: ustaxes.org – open-source tax filing webapp","https:\u002F\u002Fgithub.com\u002Fthegrims\u002FUsTaxes","github.com","aidangrimshaw",1613356666,2021,465,219,49,2533,2,"legend","web_saas","tax filing","web_app",[21,24,25,26],"open source tax","federal tax return","w2 wages","debated",-0.013,{"positive":30,"neutral":31,"mixed":18,"critical":30},10,17,39,{"idea":34,"privacy":36,"execution":37,"docs":39,"design":41},{"positive":35,"critical":18},5,{"positive":18,"critical":35},{"positive":38,"critical":18},1,{"positive":38,"critical":40},0,{"positive":40,"critical":38},[38,40,40,40,40,40,40,40,40,40,40,40,40,40,40,40,40,40,40,40,40,40,40,43,44,38,43,35,43,43,43,43,18,38,44,40,43,44,35,38],3,4,null,{"problem":45,"audience":47,"pricing":58,"motivation":66,"time_to_build":45,"stack":73,"openness":82,"stage":83,"team_size":84},{"value":48,"source":49,"evidence":50},"US individual taxpayers","inferred",[51,55],{"id":52,"by":53,"text":54},"26139676","vages","Related fun (and sad) fact: In Norway, the tax submission forms are online and so user friendly that you don't need a tax filing program like this. Edit: Here is a link to an…",{"id":56,"by":11,"text":57},"26139249","This is federal only right now, I plan to work on state taxes in the future, but I wanted to get the basic federal forms done first. The readme also definitely needs some work!…",{"value":59,"source":60,"evidence":61},"Free","commenter",[62],{"id":63,"by":64,"text":65},"26298078","FlyMoreRockets","Finally, a free to file tax form. The IRS should do this by default.",{"value":67,"source":68,"evidence":69},"Make tax filing easier and avoid a server holding SSNs","maker",[70],{"id":71,"by":11,"text":72},"26139382","A checklist of supported forms is something that's in the works. Right now the only supported type of income is W2 wages. The reason I chose React is I wanted the site to be…",[74,78],{"value":75,"source":68,"evidence":76},"React",[77],{"id":71,"by":11,"text":72},{"value":79,"source":68,"evidence":80},"TypeScript",[81],{"id":71,"by":11,"text":72},"open_source","beta","unknown",{"praise":86,"objections":109,"requests":147,"questions":174,"alternatives":188},[87,102],{"value":88,"source":60,"evidence":89},"Good idea, open-source tax filing is needed",[90,94,98],{"id":91,"by":92,"text":93},"26139434","timoth3y","Thank you for starting this. It's something that needs to exit!",{"id":95,"by":96,"text":97},"26144070","twistel","Software for the people!",{"id":99,"by":100,"text":101},"26149616","privatenumber","Filing taxes is a solved problem in many countries so it's very disappointing it's still so difficult to do in the US. I'm glad to see open source engineers taking matters into…",{"value":103,"source":60,"evidence":104},"Client-side design is appealing",[105],{"id":106,"by":107,"text":108},"26143085","0xbadcafebee","I like the code of conduct. If you can get a contibutor's guide and TODO list up, I'd bet you can get a couple contributors (especially around tax season). If it ends up covering…",[110,125,133,140],{"value":111,"source":60,"evidence":112},"Privacy concerns about entering SSN into an unaudited site",[113,117,121],{"id":114,"by":115,"text":116},"26143562","m3kw9","Not sure if you want to use the actual ustaxes.org website and input your real SSN without any security audits.",{"id":118,"by":119,"text":120},"26140067","jfc_taxman","imagine submitting your social security number and sensitive PII to a website that was created during covid 2020-05-10T08:44:50Z which doesn't have a contact us page even if it…",{"id":122,"by":123,"text":124},"26142890","thanksforfish","This is really cool, and I'd like to encourage work like this. I currently don't think I can recommend this to others because: It isn't immediately obvious who is running the…",{"value":126,"source":60,"evidence":127},"Unclear who runs the site and no about or privacy page",[128,129],{"id":122,"by":123,"text":124},{"id":130,"by":131,"text":132},"26139465","suyash","Ok how do you do state taxes in this? I don't see California option. Also no privacy policy on the hosted one, you really think people will trust giving their sensitive…",{"value":134,"source":68,"evidence":135},"Only W2 income and federal forms supported",[136,137],{"id":56,"by":11,"text":57},{"id":138,"by":11,"text":139},"26139984","Other types of income are definitely in the works, W2 income was just implemented first because it's the most common and the least complex. Rare types of income like trusts (K9)…",{"value":141,"source":60,"evidence":142},"Tax calculation correctness unverified",[143],{"id":144,"by":145,"text":146},"26139842","spankalee","How would you know that a project like this is computing taxes correctly?",[148,156,163,167],{"value":149,"source":60,"evidence":150},"State tax support",[151,152],{"id":130,"by":131,"text":132},{"id":153,"by":154,"text":155},"26139226","vxNsr","Is this federal only or state as well? The readme and website appear to be kinda thin on details. Cool nonetheless.",{"value":157,"source":60,"evidence":158},"Support for more income types like 1099-INT and capital gains",[159],{"id":160,"by":161,"text":162},"26139943","eralps","This is a cool project. As a user entering information in a pdf file with hundreds of input boxes stresses me. Hiding the document until after I enter all the information makes…",{"value":164,"source":60,"evidence":165},"Local runnable build and checksums for verification",[166],{"id":106,"by":107,"text":108},{"value":168,"source":60,"evidence":169},"Unit tests and contributor guide",[170,173],{"id":171,"by":11,"text":172},"26139998","A future improvement I am looking into is adding unit tests for tax calculation. If the project gets popular enough I would probably hire an accountant to verify everything.",{"id":106,"by":107,"text":108},[175,179,183],{"value":176,"source":60,"evidence":177},"How is tax calculation verified as correct",[178],{"id":144,"by":145,"text":146},{"value":180,"source":60,"evidence":181},"Is the site federal only or includes state",[182],{"id":153,"by":154,"text":155},{"value":184,"source":60,"evidence":185},"Does the site send data externally",[186,187],{"id":130,"by":131,"text":132},{"id":122,"by":123,"text":124},[189,200,211],{"value":190,"source":60,"evidence":191},"OpenTaxSolver",[192,196],{"id":193,"by":194,"text":195},"26139423","wiml","For the past ~decade I've mostly been using OpenTaxSolver, a file-based open source US tax utility. It's worked for my uses. It'd be appealing to try to factor out the underlying…",{"id":197,"by":198,"text":199},"26143517","pwg","Related project: OpenTaxSolver (http:\u002F\u002Fopentaxsolver.sourceforge.net\u002F): OpenTaxSolver (OTS) is a free, safe + secure program for calculating Tax Form entries for Federal and…",{"value":201,"source":60,"evidence":202},"TurboTax",[203,207],{"id":204,"by":205,"text":206},"26143252","ketamine__","Turbo Tax has a limit on number of trades. And takes a long time to process them. Are they sleep'ing a lot or does it really take a minute for 100 trades? I'm wondering if this…",{"id":208,"by":209,"text":210},"26145006","zerocrates","Having the government just send you a yearly \"bill\" showing your total taxes already withheld, calculated tax owed, and the balance, which you then start from to file extra…",{"value":212,"source":60,"evidence":213},"TaxAct",[214],{"id":215,"by":216,"text":217},"26141468","geogra4","I'm happy paying the modest fee for taxact. I do agree America has such an annoying tax system though. Why am I filling out forms if the irs already has this information!",{"comments":219,"answered":44,"key":220},11,[221,224,227],{"id":222,"text":223},"26145634","That whois information is interesting, I registered the domain through google domains. The Canadian company is probably being used by google for whoisguard reasons? The site runs…",{"id":225,"text":226},"26139573","I agree, at some point I may try to factor out the tax calculation portion and add it as an external npm package or similar. The only similar thing I could find was…",{"id":228,"text":229},"26139958","Thanks! 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idea",[788,780,35,678,789,40],"26141163","mellavora",[791,780,38,236,792,40],"26140047","kilroy123",[794,780,43,670,795,40],"26141392","kingosticks",[797,798,43,758,799,40],"26149288",26,"radicalriddler",[801,802,43,748,803,40],"26141394",27,"raverbashing",[805,806,35,807,808,40],"26167744",28,"project\u002Fpositive\u002Fexecution","greenpizza13",[810,811,40,239,812,40],"26170518",29,"jl2718",[91,814,35,678,92,40],30,[816,814,40,243,817,40],"26139707","Stratoscope",[819,814,40,243,92,40],"26140368",[821,814,40,239,817,40],"26140815",[63,823,40,824,64,40],31,"other\u002Fneutral\u002Fpricing",[95,826,35,678,96,40],32,[828,829,40,239,830,40],"26141037",33,"known",[204,832,40,239,205,40],34,[834,835,40,239,836,40],"26142347",35,"hahahahe",[118,838,38,584,119,40],36,[840,838,40,243,841,40],"26140354","renewiltord",[843,838,40,243,119,40],"26140878",[],[846,851,856,861,866,871],{"id":847,"name":848,"points":849,"category":850},"26134915","Khan-dl",473,"learning_science",{"id":852,"name":853,"points":854,"category":855},"26168285","Ray.so",384,"dev_tools",{"id":857,"name":858,"points":859,"category":860},"26154038","Endgame",368,"security_privacy",{"id":862,"name":863,"points":864,"category":865},"26131123","Jam",317,"consumer_social",{"id":867,"name":868,"points":869,"category":870},"26118756","natural-language-youtube-search",264,"ai",{"id":872,"name":873,"points":874,"category":875},"26128388","M1 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