@miraculous_cake @NoncanonicAleae And then they have automated reviews to catch your mistakes and assess penalties... and then they'll run audits where you have to justify everything w more paperwork... new laws interpretations only come from court decisions which take several years to work through the system
@miraculous_cake @NoncanonicAleae often they don't have forms & guidance straight by start of filing season... yet the tax is due during the preceding year before the rules are passed so you pay penalties if you didn't get estimated payments right for laws that didn't exist at the time
@miraculous_cake @NoncanonicAleae there's no way that off the shelf ChatGPT can apply tax laws correctly- context window isn't large enough and the laws were different for pretraining corpus several years old
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Reply · Aug 29, 2021@shrinkthetaxgap And/or make tax laws simple enough that it doesn't take years in court to determine whether enough tax has been paid.Reply · Jun 5, 2023lol berduck... plus the info often drips out over time from family, w approximate forecasts / notice of particular events w tax implications / draft…Reply · Oct 24, 2025@SirFrancisTowne @allgarbled nah the best part is when your tax advisor tells you "well, it's a new law so we don't really know how it will be…Reply · Feb 23, 2025@SpaceThompson i want the tax system massively simplified so i don't pay penalties because i can't estimate my taxes properly