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by ftomassetti 2077 days ago
You may be interested in what the Dutch Tax & Custom Agency is doing: they built a DSL to express tax calculations. Here you can find the case study: https://resources.jetbrains.com/storage/products/mps/docs/MP...

Personally I work in the Language Engineering area and it seems obvious that you want tax lawyers and accountants to interpret the tax code and translate it into “code”. Is just that you also want “code” to be obvious for them and support by proper tooling, which catch all inconsistencies.

I would also love to interview the author of this and the work for mon-entreprise. While I understand French, I also have these interviews in English to reach more people