Glossary

Answer contract

The standard record every high-risk answer carries, whichever feature produced it.

TaxOrch term

It carries the jurisdictions, tax years, coverage status, law-as-of date, facts used, missing facts, calculations, citations, assumptions, risks and verification status. Its length is the point: each field removes a way an answer could be presented as exact when it is not.

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Grounded answer
An answer whose every figure comes from a calculator and whose every legal claim is supported by a cited passage in official sources.
Verification status
The field on an answer contract that says what happened, across eight values, and the one to read before relying on an answer.
Law as of
The date at which the law behind an answer was resolved, recorded on the answer itself.

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Grounded answer

Verification status

Law as of

Everything here states what it does not cover.