The mathematical part of me thought this tackled some optimization problem with trade-offs related to taxes. Cool software nonetheless :)

This is fine I guess for a simple 1040 filing, but I've never seen anything open source that can handle importing and calculating profit/loss for hundreds of day trades across multiple brokerages with wash sale logic. TurboTax for all its warts is still a godsend to me and far cheaper than an accountant.

I never understand the text-to-speech guide videos. It's a huge turn off for me, like "oh maybe I won't use this software rather". idk why really, but it just feels so wrong.

Also I know it's money, pennies, but Amazon Polly is kinda good and with a few minutes of EQ touch up you can make it 100% better than the default OSX/Windows text-to-speech

Might consider getting it off ad-ridden sourceforge to lend credibility to an otherwise nice looking project

This is my favorite kind of Open Source project! It's obviously a labor of love and it has a wide impact. Truly this is for the greater good.

The icing on the cake is that there is a nice TO DO list guiding new contributions.

I want it to use deep learning algorithms so that it could produce a tax return that, emotionally, seems real, but in reality is just a bunch of eyeballs mixed blended with FSA rules.

How does it handle crypto? So far the tax solutions I've seen are cost prohibitive, getting quickly more expensive as the number of transactions being tracked increases.

I hope it is written in a pure functional language, because this seems like the perfect application for it.

My gosh, all the red flags go up for me. Non SSL page, sourcefourge, yahoo email contact address. UI from a really long time ago? Then I see it was made in 2003, ahhhh ok, makes sense -- and now I'm really impressed. They have updated it every year since 2003!!

Does it calculate or solve?

Cool I always make errors when I do my taxes by hand.