An accounting startup has turned tax preparations into a Pokémon Showdown game

Accounting software company Open Ledger has launched a new product in time for tax day. Meet PokéTax, a game that helps make tax filing quite fun. Instead of tax forms, users take on Tax Trainers — gym leaders — representing different parts of a tax form, such as income, deductions, and credits. Each leader asks questions that help players complete their tax forms. Image Credits:Open Ledger “Once you finish your PokéTax run, we guide you to the IRS Direct File site to officially submit,” Open Ledger co-founder Pryce Adade-Yebesi told TechCrunch. The game is an adaptation of the open source Pokémon game called Pokémon Showdown, and he promised this was not an April Fool’s joke. “This is real; it works. Tax fraud isn’t funny — and neither is the IRS,” he said. Adade-Yebesi and Ashtyn Bell launched Open Ledger earlier this year and raised a $3 million round led by Kindred Ventures and Black Ventures. Adade-Yebesi said his team first built this product, which is open source, as a joke ... Read full article.