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1. Educational Simulation Disclaimer
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- Use automated scrapers, bots, or extraction scripts to disrupt service availability.
- Misrepresent output from this platform as guaranteed IRS-certified tax advice.
- Reverse-engineer or republish the platform's proprietary datasets for commercial redistribution without written consent.
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