Claude skill to do your taxes
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TL;DR Claude Code did my 2024 and 2025 taxes. Added a skill that anyone can use to do their own.I tested it against TurboTax on my own 2024 and 2025 return. Same result without clicking through 45 minutes of wizard steps.Would love PRs or feedback as we come up on tax season.Learnings from replacing TurboTax with ClaudeSkill looping The first iteration of my taxes took almost an hour and a decent amount of prompting. Many context compactions, tons of PDF issues, lots of exploration. When it was done, I asked Claude to write the skill to make it faster the next time (eg: Always check for XFA tags first when discovering form fields)Skills aren’t just .MD files anymore Now they’re folders that can contain code snippets, example files, rules. In 2025 we were all building custom agents with custom tools. In 2026 every agent has its own code execution, network connection, and workspace. So it’s custom skills on the same agent (trending towards Claude Code or Cowork)
HN · launched Mar 6, 2026 · 7 upvotes (top 59%) · 0 views
Niche: automated accounting and tax software · 146 launches, 12 in the last 7 days · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Fintech
- Agent / copilot
- B2C
- AI-native
- Hobby / open-source project
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Could you build this?
Partial The MCP tool wrapper and CLI prompt workflow are trivial to vibe-code, but tax preparation requires complete, verified tax-code logic and deterministic financial calculation rules that LLMs cannot reliably invent.
What it would actually take: Needs integration with verified open-source or commercial tax calculation engines (e.g., OpenFisca or IRS Form 1040 rule engines) to ensure 100% computational accuracy across edge cases, deductions, and tax brackets. While AI can handle conversational document parsing and data extraction into JSON, the underlying calculation and compliance engine demands deep tax accounting and deterministic logic validation.
Discussion
3 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: TurboTax
Concerns raised: Keeping up with latest tax policy changes, Aggressive upselling tactics in UI
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 572 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #309 of 573 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 111 days after the earliest competitor.
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