{
  "id": 11081009,
  "title": "A Lithuanian tax calculator that cites the law on every line, and declines when it cannot",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/01/a-lithuanian-tax-calculator-that-cites-the-law-on-every-line-and",
  "topic": "tech",
  "section": "Tech",
  "published": "2026-10-01T01:57:40.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Dev.to",
    "slug": "dev-to",
    "url": "https://dev.to/aion-analytics-india/a-lithuanian-tax-calculator-that-cites-the-law-on-every-line-and-declines-when-it-cannot-4b5j"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "A Lithuanian tax calculator demonstrates its calculation process by citing the relevant articles of the law for each line. The tool stops and informs the user when it cannot cite a specific article. This calculator is designed to increase transparency in personal income tax calculations in Lithuania.",
  "summary": "At AION Analytics (India) we build software that shows its working, and our newest public demo is for Lithuanian personal income tax. Many Lithuanian residents file their own income tax return every year, the law is public and well structured, and the tools we tried either hide where the numbers come from or quietly guess when the law gets complicated. We wanted to build the opposite. Every…",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": "This transparent approach to tax calculation empowers users to understand and potentially challenge their tax assessments by providing clear legal backing for every step of the process.",
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}