What every recommendation includes
Facts used, rule version, official sources, assumptions, status, effective date, and a professional-review required flag. If a fact is missing, the engine returns insufficient_facts instead of guessing.
What we will not build
Informational onlyInformational only. These twenty items stay refuse. They are product law, not a backlog and not a later-wave schedule.
The durable refuse list is twenty items in the rules package, rendered in full on /tax/wont-build and as a Research article at /tax/learn/what-we-will-not-build. This page does not keep a competing hand list.
- A product named Ledger
- LLM-calculated tax, eligibility, or statutes
- Federal-bracket “total tax” calculator
- FlyFin / Keeper-style AI write-off finder
- Vehicle / Tesla / boat / aircraft write-off pitches
- Hire-your-kids-to-zero-the-tax schemes
- $80k–$100k S-corp salary heuristic
- First-party Secretary of State e-file bureau
- A second e-sign product
- Nominee kits, straw owners, or “hide from IRS/creditors”
- FinCEN BOI as a current U.S. company duty
- Alter-ego / piercing / charging-order guarantees
- QBI, NIIT, PTET-savings, or QSBS exclusion engines
- Wayfair sales-tax rate calculator
- Fundraising cap-table product (Carta/Pulley clone)
- Gusto / ADP as the payroll home
- IRS Direct File clone
- Practicing law or Circular 230 return preparation in Wave 0–4
- Fake live IRS.gov ticker
- Trust mill / asset-protection kit as a productized dodge
Rates
The 2026 Social Security OASDI wage base used here is $184,500, sourced to the Social Security Administration contribution and benefit base page. Payroll-tax delta is self-employment tax versus FICA on a salary you type — not total tax savings.