Kill Bill – Open-Source Subscription Billing and Payments Platform

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  • killbill

    Open-Source Subscription Billing & Payments Platform

  • code-clarity

  • Interesting name choice and idea. I went with a similar name https://github.com/kingsloi/medical-billkill for an app I'm building to digitise medical bills

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  • semver

    Semantic Versioning Specification

  • Interestingly, being `0.y.z` as a major released version (e.g. not in development or a release candidate) does seem to break semver[1], but I know it's more of a guideline and no one really cares:

    > Major version X (X.y.z | X > 0) MUST be incremented if any backwards incompatible changes are introduced to the public API. It MAY also include minor and patch level changes. Patch and minor versions MUST be reset to 0 when major version is incremented.

    [1] https://semver.org/

  • react-native

    A framework for building native applications using React

  • 1040.js

    A visual implementation of individual U.S. taxes (by b-k)

  • Oh, I don't know, if the data-structure was easy to understand (and contribute to) it might be fun to have a comprehensive representation of the tax code to play with. It's also a problem that lends itself to "local first" attempts - I can see an individual might try to encode rules about their local sales tax and property taxes.

    Another approach would be to have a programming competition to see who can write the best in-browser, privacy respecting 2022 1040EZ application using nothing but html, css, svg, and javascript[0]. The end product should be capable of saving its state as a single json object, and producing a usable PDF. One might host such an application as a public utility. A good test suite would model the 1040 historically to make sure the app can reach all states characteristic of the problem, and produce the correct result. On macos you might want to bundle it all in an app, include Chrome, the resources, the data and any generated PDFs.

    This would be relatively low-effort and could have real impact on, e.g., TurboTax. Heck, I'd use it. I bet a lot of people here would. Here (https://github.com/b-k/1040.js) is one person who took a serious stab at a part of this, the calculations themselves!

    0 - Someone is also taking a stab at this: https://github.com/Free1040/Free1040

  • Free1040

    The best in-browser, privacy respecting 2022 1040EZ application using minimal html, css, svg, and javascript.

  • Oh, I don't know, if the data-structure was easy to understand (and contribute to) it might be fun to have a comprehensive representation of the tax code to play with. It's also a problem that lends itself to "local first" attempts - I can see an individual might try to encode rules about their local sales tax and property taxes.

    Another approach would be to have a programming competition to see who can write the best in-browser, privacy respecting 2022 1040EZ application using nothing but html, css, svg, and javascript[0]. The end product should be capable of saving its state as a single json object, and producing a usable PDF. One might host such an application as a public utility. A good test suite would model the 1040 historically to make sure the app can reach all states characteristic of the problem, and produce the correct result. On macos you might want to bundle it all in an app, include Chrome, the resources, the data and any generated PDFs.

    This would be relatively low-effort and could have real impact on, e.g., TurboTax. Heck, I'd use it. I bet a lot of people here would. Here (https://github.com/b-k/1040.js) is one person who took a serious stab at a part of this, the calculations themselves!

    0 - Someone is also taking a stab at this: https://github.com/Free1040/Free1040

  • vat-rates

    💸 {Digital,Cloud,Electronic,Online} Services VAT Rate Database

  • This is spot on.

    There is no open RSS/XML/API feed you can subscribe to from each country to get an update of their accounting rules. You have to constantly monitor all news from all over the world. This is labor intensive. The only solution is a network of local tax specialists. Like the big-4 accounting firms have.

    At least I tried to compile the VAT rates: https://github.com/kdeldycke/vat-rates

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