/uncle_sam

a US tax calculator written in Ruby

Primary LanguageRubyMIT LicenseMIT

UncleSam

UncleSam is a program written in Ruby to make it really simple to calculate US taxes for US Form: 1040.

Breakdown of tax calculations

  1. Accepts the tax payer's net income and filing status.
  2. We apply the standard deductions which will to determine the tax payer's taxable income.
  3. We apply the personal tax exemptions which is subject to phase outs to the remaining taxable income.
  4. We determine which Federal tax bracket the tax payer is in by accepting the tax payer's taxable income & filing status as input.

Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'uncle_sam'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install uncle_sam

Usage

TODO: Write usage instructions here

Contributing

  1. Fork it ( https://github.com/PatrickMa/uncle_sam/fork )
  2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
  3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some feature')
  4. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
  5. Create a new Pull Request