Tax Buddy v1
A small figure whose ten visible features each carry one fact about a tax life: worker class, filing status, state, FICA proximity, §1411 zone, quarter, compliance, pending forms. Change a control, the figure changes. Share the URL, the figure travels with it.
This is an experiment. The stories use illustrative numbers — the audited tool lives at /tool/.
Four buddies
Build your own
What each feature means
- Body outline
- Worker class — W-2, tipped W-2, household employee, household employer, or 1099.
- Posture, eyes, mouth
- Compliance posture — three perceptual channels on one axis.
- Outer halo
- FICA wage-base proximity — green below, amber approaching, red above.
- Inner halo
- §1411 NIIT / §8959 Additional Medicare zone — hidden, approaching, showing.
- In-hand stack
- Pending forms — none, one, multiple, multiple with deadline clock.
- Background
- State of residence — color shifts; the face never touches it.
- Companion glyph
- Filing status — ring above for MFJ, split mark for MFS, small figure for HOH, ring + dot for QSS.
- Wrist sigil
- Current quarter — snowflake, leaf, sun, falling leaf.