International Tax Blog

13,000 Regulation Examples

I often use Cornell’s Legal Information Institute (“LII”) to access tax regulations. I noticed that the HTML on the LII website included regulation examples in

tags with a class of “example”. I thought it would be interesting to extract the text of all of the examples in the regulations and perform some analysis on those regulation examples. Below I describe how I located over 13,000 examples in the tax regulations. My first step was... Read more →

Today we published a new web page which provides IRS data by zip code. The IRS publishes many details of Form 1040 by zip code. For example, the data includes the number of 1040s filed for each zip code and the total adjusted gross income (“AGI”) earned in that zip code. This data allows the average AGI to be computed for each zip code. Our new web page shows a graph comparing the average AGI... Read more →

Two years ago today I started studying the Python programming language. I had heard how Python is supposed to be an easy language to learn, and I thought it might be useful. Here is a sampling of the ways that I have used Python: Checking for errors on my website Scraping IRS and other web pages Automating tasks Searching my client files Searching my database of tax authorities Summarizing information to study/review Checking for Website... Read more →

IRS Data By Zip Code (Using Python and Flask)

Today we published a new web page which provides IRS data by zip code. The IRS publishes many details of Form 1040 by zip code. For example, the data includes the number of 1040s filed for each zip code and the total adjusted gross income (“AGI”) earned in that zip code. This data allows the average AGI to be computed for each zip code. Our new web page shows a graph comparing the average AGI... Read more →

A Tax Attorney Uses Python

Two years ago today I started studying the Python programming language. I had heard how Python is supposed to be an easy language to learn, and I thought it might be useful. Here is a sampling of the ways that I have used Python: Checking for errors on my website Scraping IRS and other web pages Automating tasks Searching my client files Searching my database of tax authorities Summarizing information to study/review Checking for Website... Read more →