Comment by krtab
4 hours ago
Catala is not at all about "proving the law" formally (I'm not even sure what it would mean?). It's about having a formal language to translate law into that both matches the way law is usually written ("default logic") and allows to make numerical computations on. This can typically be used to implement tax or benefits law so that it is way easier to check that the algorithm computing taxes/benefits is correct compared to the actual state of the art of using general purpose programming languages.
I don’t know if they do it, but it allows proving properties of the law. For example, that the tax increases with income or that an exception doesn’t accidentally increase the tax paid.