Build it

$ cat lib/tax.ts
export type ByJurisdiction = Record<string, number>
export const irs: Calendar = { zone: 'America/New_York', weekends: ['saturday', 'sunday'], closed: holidays, closes: '23:59', rings_at: '09:00', roll: 'next open day' }
export function holidays(year: number): string[] {
export const SCENARIOS: Readonly<Record<string, Readonly<Record<string, string>>>> = {
export const formOf = (entity: string, at: string) => FORMS[entity]?.[at] ?? 'the state return'
export const authorization = (job: AnyView) => (job.input.entity === 'partnership' ? 'Form 8879-PE' : 'Form 8879-CORP')

$ cat brand.ts
import { Brand } from 'services.dev'
import { irs } from './lib/tax.ts'

// A tax brand shaped like the .tax family, proving Time.

$ cat rules.ts
import { Rules } from 'services.dev'

// Rows per Service, frozen and versioned, each illustrative: a brand's counsel writes its real table, and every row
// records what the brand does and why. A paid preparer holds a PTIN; on a California leg, a CTEC registrant, a CPA, an

$ cat pools/preparers.ts
import { Pool } from 'services.dev'
import { keptUntil } from '../lib/tax.ts'

// One Pool for every tax Service, on gigs.tax. The verifier checks each credential and renews the PTIN by 31 December; a

npx services.dev check   # after pools/preparers.ts

No Services here.
  next    npx services.dev init

$ cat services/estimate.ts
import { Service } from 'services.dev'
import { estimateDue, estimateFor, underpaymentCost } from '../lib/tax.ts'

// A quarter's estimated payments, the owner deciding. The quarter is its period on the taxpayer, so a second estimate for

$ npx services.dev check   # after services/estimate.ts
  plan    Launch (services.dev) · Brand.domain at :9
  plan    Team (services.dev) · Pool.door at :11, gigs.tax, a door your account operates · Pool.firms at :29 · Pool.affinity at :30 · Pool.standby at :32
services/estimate.ts · 17 lines · $79 per job, within 48 hours, charged on delivery.

$ cat services/question.ts
import { Service } from 'services.dev'
import { preparers } from '../pools/preparers.ts'
import rules from '../rules.ts'

$ npx services.dev check   # after services/question.ts
services/question.ts · 10 lines · $49 per job, within 48 hours, charged on delivery.
  plan    Launch (services.dev) · subject at :14 · roles.signer.pool at :15
  ✗ The rules table binds a name nothing reads: a key that names no Service file, or a row no step performs that is neither an advice class nor refused. Rename it to what it means, or take it out. rules.services has a key 'annual-return', and no Service file is services/annual-return.ts. rules.services has a key 'amended-return', and no Service file is services/amended-return.ts. rules.services has a key 'notice-response', and no Service file is services/notice-response.ts. rules.services has a key 'information-returns', and no Service file is services/information-returns.ts. rules.services has a key 'transcript', and no Service file is services/transcript.ts.

$ cat services/notice-response.ts
import { Service } from 'services.dev'
import { classify, matchPayments } from '../lib/tax.ts'
import { preparers } from '../pools/preparers.ts'
import rules from '../rules.ts'

$ npx services.dev check   # after services/notice-response.ts
services/notice-response.ts · 19 lines · $299 per job, or $99 if you answer it yourself, or 25% of a penalty abated, $99 at least, within 48 hours, charged on send's receipt.
  self    The owner may answer it themselves, in their own name, for $99.
  ✗ The rules table binds a name nothing reads: a key that names no Service file, or a row no step performs that is neither an advice class nor refused. Rename it to what it means, or take it out. rules.services has a key 'annual-return', and no Service file is services/annual-return.ts. rules.services has a key 'amended-return', and no Service file is services/amended-return.ts. rules.services has a key 'information-returns', and no Service file is services/information-returns.ts. rules.services has a key 'transcript', and no Service file is services/transcript.ts.

$ cat services/amended-return.ts
import { Service } from 'services.dev'
import { authorization, carryforwardList, efile, schedules } from '../lib/tax.ts'
import { preparers } from '../pools/preparers.ts'
import rules from '../rules.ts'

$ npx services.dev check   # after services/amended-return.ts
services/amended-return.ts · 22 lines · $900 per job, within 30 days, charged when file or aar is accepted.
  plan    Launch (services.dev) · subject at :20 · roles.preparer.pool at :21
  ✗ The rules table binds a name nothing reads: a key that names no Service file, or a row no step performs that is neither an advice class nor refused. Rename it to what it means, or take it out. rules.services has a key 'annual-return', and no Service file is services/annual-return.ts. rules.services has a key 'information-returns', and no Service file is services/information-returns.ts. rules.services has a key 'transcript', and no Service file is services/transcript.ts.

$ cat services/carryforward-watch.ts
import { Service } from 'services.dev'
import { earliestExpiry } from '../lib/tax.ts'

// The steward a taxpayer keeps once no plan runs: it answers for the dates a return leaves on the subject. The brand

$ npx services.dev check   # after services/carryforward-watch.ts
services/carryforward-watch.ts · 8 lines · $9 per year, charged at the start of each year.
  clocks  expiring · a date your code decides · the brand · on the taxpayer
  plan    Launch (services.dev) · subject at :11 · clocks.lives_on: 'subject' at :13 · price.every at :14

$ cat services/annual-return.ts
import { Service } from 'services.dev'
import { assessmentCloses, authorization, carryforwardList, claimsRefund, earliestExpiry, efile, extendedDue, extension, fileDue, lateCost, lateFiling, payDue, reask, refundCloses, requestList, schedules, tentative } from '../lib/tax.ts'
import { preparers } from '../pools/preparers.ts'
import rules from '../rules.ts'

$ npx services.dev check   # after services/annual-return.ts
services/annual-return.ts · 45 lines · $1,800 per job, filed 5 days before its deadline, 20% off if late, or we pay the penalty and its interest, up to $5,000, after we ask the IRS to take it off, charged when file is accepted.
  clocks  file · a date your code decides, one for each jurisdiction · the member of record · moves on extend to a date your code decides · about 5% of the unpaid tax a month late, or $245 an owner · guarantee: penalties and their interest, up to $5,000, after notice-response, never for held time, from your line
          pay · a date your code decides · the buyer · hard: nothing moves it · about 0.5% of the unpaid tax a month late

$ cat services/information-returns.ts
import { Service } from 'services.dev'
import { payees } from '../lib/tax.ts'
import rules from '../rules.ts'

$ npx services.dev check   # after services/information-returns.ts
services/information-returns.ts · 17 lines · $15 per payee, charged when file is accepted.
  bounds  open match, under the brand's tin_matching · open file, under the brand's iris
  ✗ The rules table binds a name nothing reads: a key that names no Service file, or a row no step performs that is neither an advice class nor refused. Rename it to what it means, or take it out. rules.services has a key 'transcript', and no Service file is services/transcript.ts.

$ npx services.dev check   # after services/tax-plan.ts
services/tax-plan.ts · 18 lines · $2,400 per year, charged at the start of each year, 1 annual-return, 25 information-returns payees, 4 estimate, 12 question and 2 notice-response included each year.
  plan    Team (services.dev) · on.event at :29, past the Tax Plan's allowance: fact.restated mints an amended return
  ✗ The rules table binds a name nothing reads: a key that names no Service file, or a row no step performs that is neither an advice class nor refused. Rename it to what it means, or take it out. rules.services has a key 'transcript', and no Service file is services/transcript.ts.

$ npx services.dev check   # after services/transcript.ts
services/transcript.ts · 18 lines · roadmap · $12 per job, within 48 hours, charged on order's receipt, or at disclose for a return the brand filed.
✓ ready to sell · 9 Services · AI delivers 2 alone · each keeps at least 50% of every job

$ cat services/year-end-close.ts
import { Service } from 'services.dev'

// The year's books, closed before the return reads them. The AI reconciles each account to its statement and proposes
// the adjusting entries, an adversarial tie-out checks them, and the officer decides which to post. For $900 instead of

$ npx services.dev check   # after services/year-end-close.ts
  ledger  +$900.00 · AI $1.26 (example) · preparer $150.00 · signer $105.00 · you $643.74 · 4 jurisdictions
services/year-end-close.ts · 15 lines · $300 per job, or $900 with an accountant's approval, within 48 hours, charged on delivery.
  roles   accountant · from gigs.accountants/accountants, a Pool another operator runs · $250 an approval · placement $20.00 a filled review