TaxDirection

Tagging public wishes globally and creating weighted investment of individual tax amounts based on the InSociEUP philosophy to life.

The presentation slides from the conference are also uploaded to this repository

Conference, Venue & Date: 10th Management Doctoral Colloquium & VGSOM Research Scholars Day (MDC-VRS 2024); Vinod Gupta School of Management, IIT Kharagpur, India: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/vgsomiitkgp_mdc-vrs-2024-activity-7142869683329810432-Hc_y

Presentation Date: 1st February, 2024

Track: Finance and Accounting

The index.html and styles.css files are for the website: https://santanban.github.io/TaxDirection/

New pipeline with UI can be found here: https://huggingface.co/spaces/SantanuBanerjee/TaxDirection

OK Challenge Page: https://www.omdena.com/chapter-challenges/tax-allocation-manager-system

The conference paper has been accepted as a Book Chapter

Chapter Title: Aggregating Citizens’ Personalised Recommendations into Tax Directions for automatic Project Proposal development using NLP, enabling Sustainable Hyperlocal Governance and Longevity

Authors: Santanu Banerjee, Tiyasa Mishra, Anandita Das, Atul Kumar Dubey, Krishna Das

Editor: Prof. Dr. Ramesh Chandra Das; Publisher: Routledge (Taylor & Francis)

ISBN: 9781041025276 ; Chapter No.: 15

Link: https://www.routledge.com/Economic-Growth-Price-Stability-and-Governance-Implications-of-Fiscal-and-Monetary-Policies-Global-Scenario/ChandraDas/p/book/9781041025276

The current proposal in FOSS 2026 is to develop an upgraded deployable version of the HuggingFace implementation and brainstorm on how to verify users based on PAN/Taxation...

Project Link: https://fossunited.org/hack/fosshack26/p/c6s7kea2an

Interesting Fact:

I attended Zu~Grama (https://zugrama.org/) in January-Feb 2025 and discussed the idea with an attendee Prof. M. V. Rajeev Gowda, a former Member of Parliament for Karnataka in the Rajya Sabha from 2014 to 2020 and a distinguished professor at IIM Bangalore from 2000 to 2014 (https://www.oneindia.com/politicians/prof.-m.-v.-rajeev-gowda-76817.html; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rajeev_Gowda). He actually was interested, and himself proposed that "maybe not 100% of the amount, but say 5% can be allocated to projects of their choice". Before this I believed that this Tax~Direction could just be a good feedback system to tell the government regarding which decision to make (per year, through the budgets and policies); but actually allowing 5% of every person's tax amount to be allocated to the specific use case which the individual wants the government to solve (maybe a very specific problem) could be a gamechanger. Therefore, it is actually possible in leading democracies to pitch for a similar 5-10% Tax~Direction based Yearly Budgeting (yes, through this feedback every taxpayer will be able to affect each year's financial budget) and (unbiased) AI-enabled holistic policy development.. The government still retains the power to decide whether to implement the 5% or some-per cent rule; so this is just a soft control, but will probably be for the better than the worse due to more data, insights and accountability...