Very cool. I've been dreaming of something like this, but that would accept a large protobuf instead of being embedded in code. Combine that with some offline thing that could insert numbers render on top of a PDF and that's something powerful.
On Mon, Apr 4, 2022 at 10:49 PM [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote: > Just wanted to share, for users in the US: > > I've used this python-taxes code > <https://github.com/davidcmoore/python-taxes> from user davidcmoore for > several years now together with beancount, primarily to generate tax forms > including a W2. The package includes several advanced federal tax forms > (and California forms if you live there). I have a bridge script that > passes on numbers from beancount queries as input to python-taxes. > > I don't use it to file taxes, but rather, to verify my taxes computed > using other means, and to estimate taxes to make payments and such. In the > last 3-4 years, this process has yielded with very little time spent, > numbers that are the same or close enough to make it very useful in > verification and estimation. > > Of course, there are fundamental limitations. Eg: foreign taxes paid via > investments, qualified dividends, tax exempt interest, etc. are typically > not stored in beancount. For these, a quick approximation based on past > years works surprisingly well for the purposes of estimation. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Beancount" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beancount/5f51d89b-411b-48ae-ace9-2119ad2a8063n%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beancount/5f51d89b-411b-48ae-ace9-2119ad2a8063n%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Beancount" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beancount/CAK21%2BhONtRx9dqZSSxE90ZggX%2B2abpjw2eO6NRP49Ou5TR7ayQ%40mail.gmail.com.
