The rule, exactly. Before an election each citizen chooses: to vote — or to take a payment and not vote in that election. The payment is a percentage of the median income, set by referendum; there is no fixed sum. One ballot is one vote, with no multiplier in the count; the vote is amplified only in that each ballot's share grows as others step out. The budget pays under law; a candidate never pays. Only a referendum of all citizens — simple majority, no quorum — introduces, changes or repeals the rule.

The protocol has been introduced nowhere and no pilot has been run: shares, turnout and outcome figures in the chapters are estimates, and the protocol promises nobody an election victory. If a chapter says otherwise, Exact Answers and the Charter are correct. For a candidate: ten questions and ten steps. For a citizen, a mayor, a finance officer, a donor, a journalist, a scholar, a lawyer: answers by role. Everything in force in one file: llms-full.txt.

48c. The American Data Timeline and IRS Modernisation¶

Chapter: 10 — Case: USA File version: v1 Date: 2026-06-11 · moved 2026-09-15 Source: moved from §3 during the universalisation of v6.58.0

How to read this chapter (note of 02.10.2026). The text contains wording that is easy to misread: the efficiency bonus has been removed. The exact-answers sheet 1d and the charter 048m are in force.

The universal principle of the timeline and the symmetry of reporting is in §3. Here — what it looks like with American infrastructure and what specifically stands in the way of speeding it up.

48c.1. The timeline under current infrastructure¶

Step	Deadline	Source
Employers file W-2s	31 January (for the previous year)	Employers → SSA
SSA aggregates by ZIP	By April (+90 days)	SSA
The city calculates the median	By May (+30 days)	City administration
Publication of the dividend	30 days before the election	City
The A/B declaration window	30–5 days before the election (default value, see 4.1)	Citizens
Payment of the base (D_base)	1 day before the election	Treasury → bank
Election	Day X	—
Budget audit	+6 months	Independent auditor
Payment of the bonus (B)	After the audit	Treasury → bank

Total data lag: 5 months (January W-2 → June payment).

This is a REALISTIC scenario under current infrastructure. The SSA already receives W-2s by January and is technically able to aggregate data by ZIP code within days (an SQL query on an existing database = 30 seconds). The 90-day lag is a reserve for bureaucratic procedures, not for computation.

48c.2. The "citizen vs state" asymmetry in American figures¶

Requirements on the citizen:

File a return: strictly by 15 April
1 day late: a 5 %/month penalty
60 days late: a penalty of $485 or 100 % of the tax
Didn't file: a criminal case, up to 1 year in prison
Accuracy: to the cent, with documents for 7 years

Requirements on the state (for reporting to citizens):

Deadline for publishing data: not set
Lateness: a $0 penalty
Format: a 200-page PDF if it likes
Accuracy: ±billions, "we'll revise"

An Apple shareholder knows more about his $5,000 investment than a citizen about his $5,000 of taxes — because the SEC obliges Apple to report quarterly, while the city is never obliged to report.

48c.3. Who blocks modernisation¶

The IRS and the SSA run on 1960s systems not because modernisation is impossible but because nobody demands it. Three groups block modernisation:

The tax-preparation industry (~$30B/year): Intuit (TurboTax), H&R Block and 100,000+ accountants lobby AGAINST tax simplification, because simple taxes = the death of their business. ProPublica (2019) documented Intuit's 20-year campaign against free filing
Politicians of both parties: Republicans cut the IRS budget (fewer audits = good for donors), Democrats are interested in opacity (complex taxes = an unnoticed increase)
The IRS employees' union (NTEU): modernisation = automation = cutting 50,000 of 80,000 jobs

AB-EXIT creates the FIRST mass incentive for modernisation: millions of citizens whose dividend depends on the speed of data publication become lobbyists for IRS reform.

48c.4. The ideal timeline after reform¶

Step	Current deadline	Ideal deadline	What must change
W-2s from employers	31 January	31 January (unchanged)	Nothing
SSA/IRS aggregation by ZIP	+90 days (April)	+30 days (March)	An API instead of manual processing
Publication of the median	+30 days (May)	+7 days (March)	Automatic calculation
IRS SOI full publication	+2–3 years	+6 months (July)	A legislative speed requirement
Census/BLS verification	+9–12 months	+3 months	Synchronisation of agencies

Ideal lag: 37 days (January W-2 → February/March publication) instead of the current 5 months.

Technically this is a 30-second SQL query on a database that already exists. 150 days of current lag = 149 days, 59 minutes and 30 seconds of bureaucracy.

48c.5. The cascade effect of IRS modernisation through AB-EXIT¶

When millions of citizens demand fast data for the dividend calculation, IRS modernisation will trigger side reforms:

A pre-filled return (as in Estonia, Denmark, Sweden — filing in 3 minutes instead of 13 hours). Savings to citizens: $30B/year on preparation services
Automatic audit via AI. Cutting the tax gap ($600B/year) by 30–50 % = $180–300B of additional taxes
Instant refunds (3 days instead of 21). 100M refunds a year
Real-time income transparency by ZIP code — every neighbourhood sees its median and compares with its neighbours

AB-EXIT does not require IRS modernisation to LAUNCH (the W-2 via the SSA with a 5-month lag = sufficient). But AB-EXIT creates PRESSURE that will lead to IRS modernisation within 3–5 years — because for the first time millions of citizens are PERSONALLY interested in the speed of state data.