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20080255971 | METHOD AND SYSTEM OF SELF-AUDITING FOR RECOVERING SALES TAX - This invention relates to a method and system of self-auditing for recovering refundable sales taxes, including but not limited to value-added (VAT), by performing specifically established tax compliance algorithmic functions. Business entities are entitled to recover tax paid on purchased goods and services. The method and system allow the business to conduct self-audit on their own accounting system, which contains its business related accounts payable accounting transaction data in order to extract specific data anomalies related to sales tax entitlements. The method and system process and identify specific transaction details and calculate differential monetary currency tax recovery amounts that have been overlooked as tax entitlements or overpaid in error to vendors for their determination of their net tax owing to various government bodies. | 10-16-2008 |
20080262951 | Facilitating International Customs Planning - Facilitating customs planning and clearance including creating in an international customs server, in response to a signal communicated through a client device coupled for data communications through at least one internet connection to the international customs server, a master customs planning record; creating a related customs planning record wherein the related customs planning record is related to the master customs planning record; calculating duty on the goods described in the related customs planning record; storing the amount of the calculated duty in the related customs planning record; incrementing the total amount of duty stored in the duty total field in the master customs planning record; submitting, to the destination country, payment of the duty; creating, in dependence upon the related customs planning record, a customs declaration form for a destination country; and submitting the customs declaration form to a customs declaration forms database for the destination country. | 10-23-2008 |
20080281734 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR INTEGRATED CREDIT APPLICATION AND TAX REFUND ESTIMATION - Systems and methods for handling multiple aspects of the acquisition of products and/or services, such as vehicles, are provided in a unified and streamlined fashion. Through an integrated credit application and tax refund estimation service application/systems, credit application-related data and non-overlapping tax-related data is captured. A tax refund is estimated based upon the tax-related data and at least a portion of the credit application-related data. Upon a determination to utilize at least a portion of the estimated tax refund as at least a portion of a down payment on a loan, at least a portion of the estimated tax refund is incorporated into a deal structure of the loan, and a credit application including the deal structure and at least the credit application-related data is submitted for a decision. | 11-13-2008 |
20080294538 | E-Commerce Sales and Use Exchange System and Method - The invention provides a system and method for calculating, collecting and/or disbursing one or more third party payments owed to one or more third parties resulting from one or more electronic transactions occurring over a wide area network (WAN) between a customer and a merchant. The transaction concern one or more services and/or products provided by the merchant. The system and method require that the calculation of the amount owed to the third party occur at a WAN node that is different than and at a different locale than that of the merchant. By so doing, the merchant is not required to purchase and install equipment and/or software of the third party to which a payment is due. The present system includes a merchant node, third party payment processing node, financial network, and third party payment receiving node. A consumer conducts a transaction at a merchant node. As a result of the transaction, a third party may or may not be due a payment. The third party payment processing node determines whether such payment is due, calculates the amount of the third party payment, and/or authorizes payment of the third party payment. The financial network, which includes at least the merchant's acquirer bank, the customer's credit card issuing bank and the credit car association, then handles payment of the amount(s) due to the third party, the amount(s) due to the merchant and the amount(s) owed by the customer. The system of the invention can be a fee for service type of system wherein those (the merchant or the third party) that employ the system and/or method pay a fee, for example per transaction or per amounts collected and disbursed, to the provider of the claimed system. | 11-27-2008 |
20080319882 | EFFICIENT WORK FLOW SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROCESSING TAXPAYER SOURCE DOCUMENTS - A method for processing taxpayer source documents is disclosed. The method may include receiving proforma data and an electronic image of a taxpayer source document, determining a type of tax statement for the taxpayer source document from the electronic image of the taxpayer source document and using the proforma data, a database, and business rules to verify the type of the tax statement for the electronic image of the taxpayer source document. This can be done by searching for an identification code within the electronic image of the taxpayer source document to determine whether the identification code matches the proforma data. The method can also include extracting data from the electronic image of the taxpayer source document and determining if the extracted data from the electronic image of the taxpayer source document has an error. Once the data is extracted, the method can also include creating an electronic document that includes the extracted data. | 12-25-2008 |
20090012884 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR POPULATING TAX RETURNS USING AGGREGATED DATA - Some embodiments of the present invention provide a system that populates a tax return using employee information obtained from a human resources system and/or employee personal profile. During operation, this system obtains employee information associated with a user from the human resources system and/or employee personal profile and then partially populates the tax return using the employee information. | 01-08-2009 |
20090037305 | System and Method for Monitoring Tax Information - This disclosure provides various embodiments of software for monitoring tax information in a business application. In one aspect, the software collects a set of tax information associated with at least one taxed entity from a plurality of logically disparate sub-modules, each sub-module associated with a business application. The software presents at least a portion of the collected set of tax information at a centralized reporting interface to a first client authorized by the particular taxed entity, wherein presenting at least a portion of the set of tax information comprises displaying one or more of the following: tax information related to one or more tax returns associated with the particular taxed entity; tax information related to one or more tax registers associated with the particular taxed entity; or tax information related to one or more tax payments associated with the particular taxed entity. | 02-05-2009 |
20090094143 | Gross Margin Tax Method - A method for calculating the gross margin tax (GMT), for example, in a particular state. In an example embodiment, one or more new accounts are added to the income statement for a GMT taxable entity. These new accounts are accounts or items that are deductible under the GMT, but not necessarily under the federal tax. | 04-09-2009 |
20090112743 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR REPORTING ACCORDING TO EU VAT RELATED LEGAL REQUIREMENTS - A system and method for reporting according to the EU VAT related legal requirements and, in the preferred embodiment, within SAP environment is described. Because the report will aid in legally required reporting for EU VAT, it will also aid in the avoidance of penalties that may be legally imposed for non-compliance to EU VAT rules. This invention will also allow for better reporting and improved EU VAT Reclamation process. The present invention provides for data collection of EU VAT related invoice transactions made electronically based on additional fields which are provided in SAP. Additionally, a new report is created and is run based on input criteria. | 04-30-2009 |
20090119193 | AUTOMATED TRANSACTION CALCULATIONS WITH SCRIPTED RULE SETS - A rule-based payment system is described that divides a payment among multiple parties by invoking one or more deduction rules. The rule-based payment system typically operates as part of a software application that provides many functions relevant to a real estate or other commission-based practice. Rules can be added to the system at any time without modifying the software. Rules are scripts that the software application can invoke to carry out deductions specific to a particular environment. If the software application manufacturer wants to provide the software to multiple markets in many different environments, the software manufacturer can provide a different set of rules for each environment without modifying the software application itself. Thus, the rule-based payment system allows software to be shared among many markets while still having the flexibility of custom-built software. | 05-07-2009 |
20090132399 | System and method for preparing multi-level tax returns - A system for calculating and preparing state and local sales and use tax returns suitable for filing with state and local municipal taxing authorities is disclosed. The system in accordance with the present invention provides a total solution for sales and use taxes and is configured to not only determine and prepare state and use tax returns but also calculates and prepares returns of all local taxing authorities where the taxpayer conducts business. Thus, the system in accordance with the present invention is able to provide a total solution for determining and preparing state and local sales and use tax returns. The system is also able to easily and effortlessly prepare local municipal sales and use tax returns that are cumbersome. | 05-21-2009 |
20090138389 | DETERMINING THE OCCURRENCE OF EVENTS USING DECISION TREES - The determination of whether an event, such as a taxable event for a commercial transaction, has occurred uses an executable decision tree. The decision tree includes a number of test nodes that each include a comparison field and at least one allowed value. A data value associated with the comparison field is accessed and compared to the allowed values. If the comparison field equals an allowed value, execution proceeds to a child node, and if not, execution proceeds to a sibling node. The child and sibling nodes are either another test node, a result node, or an error node. Execution of the decision tree proceeds until a result node or an error node is reached. | 05-28-2009 |
20090187500 | Accounts payable tax rules processing system and method - A system for generation of accounts payable processing system tax rules is provided. A tax account system generates an account for a tax jurisdiction. An over-tax rule system generates one or more rules for processing a tax amount in excess of a required tax amount associated with the tax jurisdiction. An under-tax rule system generates one or more rules for processing a tax amount that is less than the required tax amount associated with the tax jurisdiction. | 07-23-2009 |
20090210330 | PAYROLL SYSTEM AND METHOD - A paycheck-centric payroll system and method for generating, accumulating and reporting on payroll information including payroll deductions and payroll tax deposits. | 08-20-2009 |
20090240610 | Integrated e-Commerce Sales & Use Tax Exchange System and Method - The invention provides a system and method for calculating, collecting and/or disbursing one or more third party payments owed to one or more third parties resulting from one or more electronic transactions occurring over a wide area network (WAN) between a customer and a merchant. | 09-24-2009 |
20090287591 | MULTI-STAGE, MULTI-USER ENGAGEMENT SUBMISSION AND TRACKING PROCESS - A method for submitting information for an engagement is disclosed. The method might include the steps of generating a tracking screen for tracking the submission of a plurality of files, including a tax file and an image file, each file having the same client identification code, receiving the tax file from a first client device, and updating the tracking screen to reflect the submission of the tax file. The method further might include the steps of receiving an image file from a second client device, updating the tracking screen to reflect the submission of the image file, and transmitting the plurality of files to a remote server system. | 11-19-2009 |
20090327108 | System and method for online bill payment - The present invention provides an accounting software application and related system and method for generating and presenting unfileable tax documents to clients for review and upon approval and payment converting the unfileable tax document into a final, fileable document for filing with a tax entity by either the service provider or the client. Watermarks, obscuring text, and other techniques may be employed to render draft tax documents unfileable so as to promote payment of services when presenting work product, such as tax returns, electronically to clients and confirming payment by the client prior to presenting or making accessible a fileable version of the document. | 12-31-2009 |
20100036760 | FLEXIBLE AND ADAPTIVE ACCRUAL METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CALCULATING AND FACILITATING COMPLIANCE WITH TAXES AND OTHER OBLIGATIONS - A computer-based system and method calculates and facilitates revenue accrual, for making larger, less frequent payments of estimated taxes or other obligations. Payer preferences are applied to satisfy variable payment intervals, amounts, and available resources. The obligation, required payments, and set-aside schedules are recalculated as needed, under payer and/or system control. Excess accruals are minimized; set-aside schedules are configurable. The system may be self-contained, handheld, or accessed remotely. Automatic datalinks move information and command fund transfers from the payer's bank, to accrue funds and make payments to other accounts. A service host may support a plurality of payers to make set-asides and payments at various levels as needed, on an individual or batch basis, including individual taxpayer enrollment for batch file tax payments by service providers. Some embodiments can be embedded to enhance the capabilities of other systems. | 02-11-2010 |
20100042521 | INVESTMENT AND DISTRIBUTION TO MINIMIZE TAX LIABILITY - Methods, instructions on computer media and computing devices are provided for distribution from and investment into a plurality of accounts. In particular, the methods, instructions and computing devices provide for the minimization of tax liability during distribution and investment. An investor may invest funds into and receive distributions from a plurality of accounts based on some combination of tax obligations associated with each account and effective tax rates applicable to various portions of the investor's income. Maximum effective tax rates at present and at some point in the future, such as after retirement, may also be utilized for strategic investment. | 02-18-2010 |
20100057596 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR FACILITATING SHIPMENT OF PACKAGES - A method and apparatus for facilitating the shipment of a package or packages, each package containing one or more items, from a Sender to a Recipient, via one of a number of shippers. The apparatus includes a database for storing shipper data, a processor for processing the data in the database, a Sender's terminal for selectively receiving and sending shipment information to and from the processing system, a first communications link for selectively enabling communication between the database/processor and the Sender's terminal, a second communications link for selectively communicating between the database/processor and the shipper of the package(s), and a third communications link for selectively communicating between the database/processor and customs facilitation entities such as customs brokers. The Internet may be used as at least one of the communication links, and the database may be made available through a Web site. | 03-04-2010 |
20100063908 | Estate Disposition Modeling - A system and computer-implemented method for modeling estate disposition are disclosed. One embodiment receives balance sheet inputs, estate planning document inputs and timing/event inputs. Conveyance and tax logic are applied to the inputs. Flowcharts illustrating the disposition of the estate based on the inputs are generated. Tax and liquidity analysis based on the inputs are also generated. | 03-11-2010 |
20100070394 | EFFICIENT WORK FLOW SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PREPARING TAX RETURNS - A processor-based method for preparing a tax return using multiple service providers. The method includes receiving at a first service provider an image file that includes a plurality of data values and assigning at the first service provider the image file to a form having a plurality of predefined field names, wherein each of the plurality data values belong to one of the plurality of predefined field names. The method also includes receiving at a second service provider the image file and an input form having a plurality of input fields corresponding to the plurality of predefined field names and associating at the second service provider the plurality of data values from the image file with the plurality of input fields. | 03-18-2010 |
20100076875 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVISIONING ANTICIPATED TAX REFUND, INCOME OR CONSUMER LOANS - A system and method for provisioning a refund anticipation loan is providing that includes receiving tax return information wherein the tax return information is associated with a taxpayer and the tax return information includes an expected refund amount and authorization for a combined bank to receive the expected refund amount, determining whether the expected refund amount meets a threshold value for the RAL, determining whether there is a debt indicator associated with the tax return, requesting an account for the taxpayer from a combined bank wherein the combined bank will also fund the RAL under a the same charter, requesting RAL funding for the taxpayer account from the combined bank if a debt indicator is not associated with the tax return, and receiving the expected refund amount at the combined bank, wherein the RAL is offset by receipt of the expected refund amount at the combined bank. | 03-25-2010 |
20100076876 | Information processing method for managing and determining tax provision information - A multi-user information processing method for managing and determining tax provision information that includes a source database storing data for determining tax provision information; a calculation engine for performing information processing operations on the data stored in the source database for determining tax provision information; a transformed database for storing tax provision information determined by the calculation engine; and a reporting engine for producing reports using information from the transformed database. | 03-25-2010 |
20100106629 | AUTOMATIC DELINQUENCY ITEM PROCESSING WITH CUSTOMIZATION FOR LENDERS - A method of processing delinquency items associated with taxes on properties may include receiving preferences from two or more lenders. Delinquency items may be automatically processed according to the preferences of each lender for their respective loans. The preferences may include business rules for whether to process a delinquency item. A lender preference may include specific criteria for a determination process (e.g., criteria for when to act on delinquencies with respect to particular states). | 04-29-2010 |
20100131394 | MANAGING CONSISTENT INTERFACES FOR TAX AUTHORITY BUSINESS OBJECTS ACROSS HETEROGENEOUS SYSTEMS - A business object model, which reflects data that is used during a given business transaction, is utilized to generate interfaces. This business object model facilitates commercial transactions by providing consistent interfaces that are suitable for use across industries, across businesses, and across different departments within a business during a business transaction. In some operations, software creates, updates, or otherwise processes information related to a tax assessment notice, a tax form, a tax object, a tax obligation and/or a tax return business object. | 05-27-2010 |
20100138329 | Table Driven Accounting Method and System - The described embodiments of the invention include a method for maintaining accounting records for a portfolio of investments, comprising accounting records stored on a computer readable medium and providing a table for each event type affecting an investment for generating an account entry, each line of the table designating which accounting record receives the account entry and at least one key designating a data source for the account entry and an operation on the data source to determine the amount of the account entry. In an alternate embodiment of the invention, a data processing system for maintaining accounting records for a portfolio of securities comprises a plurality of accounting records stored on a computer readable medium, the accounting records including tax accounts, a plurality of defined security types and, for each security type, a plurality of tables for each transaction affecting a security for generating an account entry, each line of the table designating which accounting record receives the account entry and a key designating a data source for the account entry and an operation on the data source to determine the amount of the account entry. | 06-03-2010 |
20100161460 | Method and system for source document data entry and form association - The present invention provides software and a method and system of efficient source document data entry and data association. More particularly, the present invention relates to a software module which receives source documents and recognizes or extracts information from the documents or associated files for use in populating fields of related or derivative documents or screens to facilitate accurate transfer of data. The invention also allows for ease in confirming the accuracy of the extracted or imported data by comparison with the source document either directly by a person or through automated or semi-automated procedures. | 06-24-2010 |
20100161461 | MONEY TRANSFERS FOR TAX REFUNDS - Tax refunds are provided via a money transfer service. Merely by way of example, a taxpayer (or a tax preparer) might provide to the IRS an account number at a bank, as a target for a direct deposit refund related to a tax return. In an aspect, the account number might have a specific format that informs the bank that the refund is to be processed by the money transfer service, and in another aspect, the account number might include data that identifies the taxpayer to the money transfer service. | 06-24-2010 |
20100179893 | System for controlling the charge rate of an electric vehicle battery by a third party, and monitoring, recording, and reporting the power supplied to it. - A system and means for controlling, monitoring, recording and reporting the use of power supplied for battery charging in electrically powered vehicles and their batteries; for the purposes of adjusting power loading on the electrical supply system, as well as allowing monitoring, recording, reporting and billing for such power use, and for recording, reporting and billing local and federal taxes for use of such electrical energy used for vehicle propulsion purposes. | 07-15-2010 |
20100217694 | Method and system for collecting and processing electronic data - The present invention provides a system and method of generating a set of tax schedule information comprising: (a) providing an Excel interface, the Excel interface being associated with a set of commands and functions; (b) accessing a separate database, the separate database storing a set of data, the set of data having been defined using the set of commands and functions; (c) manipulating the set of data according to the set of commands and functions to generate the set of tax schedule information; and (d) storing the set of tax schedule information in a separate database. This embodiment may further include one or more of the following: using at least one entry from the set of tax schedule information to populate a tax schedule; wherein the separate database is an XML database; wherein the set of tax schedule information is based, at least in part, on a set of tags associated with the XML database. | 08-26-2010 |
20100235269 | System and Method of Processing Asset Data - A method of processing asset data can include receiving data related to an asset from an electronic data warehouse at an adjustment system. The method can also include identifying a tax class of a plurality of tax classes based on the received data and storing the received data in association with the identified tax class. Further, the method can include determining based on the received data that the asset has been added, retired or depreciated during a time period. In addition, the method can include adjusting a value of the asset, wherein the adjusted value corresponds to an addition, retirement or depreciation of the asset. | 09-16-2010 |
20100241538 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR AUTOMATED GENERATION OF BILLS - The present invention provides methods and systems for processing bills electronically. Generally, a bill is created for a customer using billing information and master data from a biller and master data from a customer. Billing information is received from the biller by a first processing module having access to the master data of the biller. The first processing module generates a bill using the billing information and the master data of the biller. A second processing module having access to the master data of the customer provides customer data to the first processing module. The bill is transformed into a format specified in the master data of the customer by the first processing module if the format of the generated bill is not the format specified in the master data of the customer. The generated or transformed bill is transferred to the second processing module by the first processing module. | 09-23-2010 |
20100250412 | Online analytic processing cube with time stamping - In one example embodiment, a system and method are shown for receiving data that include a time stamp. The system and method also include building an Online Analytical Processing (OLAP) cube that includes a dimension, the dimension acting as a schema for the data that include the time stamp. The system and method may also include populating the OLAP cube with an object, the object including the data and the time stamp as at least one attribute. The system and method may also include storing the OLAP cube. | 09-30-2010 |
20100287076 | Allergen-free food expense tracking system - A website with secure user access enables a registered user to obtain a dashboard report (YTD, or for other customized date ranges) on incremental spending relating to the user's food allergies and/or food intolerances | 11-11-2010 |
20100293079 | TAX REFUND SYSTEM - A tax refund system is disclosed in which in exchange for a taxpayer assigning all or a portion of his or her tax refund, a participating provider provides to the taxpayer a spending vehicle with buying power at participating outlets. Tax return data for an individual's tax return is processed by the IRS. A taxpayer consents to using a portion of the tax return data to acquire a spending vehicle from a financial institution of the taxpayer's choosing. Using a portion of the tax return data, the IRS arranges to electronically transfer an amount related to the taxpayer's refund to an account at the financial institution selected by the taxpayer. A taxpayer then receives a spending vehicle such as a credit, debit, or cash card, spending account, coupon, or rebate from a financial institution or other spending vehicle provider such as a retailer, service provider, wholesaler, distributor, or entertainment entity. | 11-18-2010 |
20100332362 | TAX RETURN EVALUATION SYSTEM - Tax returns are received from one or more tax agencies. Each tax return is compared to a stored profile, and a determination is made as to whether each tax return falls within a trend. An evaluation of the tax return is generated based on the comparison and the determination of whether the tax return falls within the trend. The evaluation includes an indication of the tax returns potential to be a fraudulent tax return. | 12-30-2010 |
20110004537 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ORGANIZING TAX INFORMATION AND PROVIDING TAX ADVICE - A method includes providing to a user a set of computer-executable instructions that, when executed by a user's electronic device, generate a user interface displayable on a display device coupled to the user's electronic device, presenting to the user via the user interface a plurality of solicitations for a set of personal information describing characteristics of the user, receiving via the user interface the personal information set, and, based on the personal information set, generating to the user interface a checklist of tax return preparation information to be compiled by the user. | 01-06-2011 |
20110022502 | Tax resolution process and system - A tax resolution system and method are disclosed for identifying and implementing solutions to tax delinquency problems. A taxpayer who is delinquent is guided to provide pertinent data and preferences to be analyzed to derive one or more potential solutions to resolve tax problems or plan a future tax strategy. The taxpayer or a tax professional is provided with the data and support information to solve tax problems and prepare documentation to implement potential solutions based on recommendations provided by the tax resolution system and method. | 01-27-2011 |
20110078062 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING ACCOUNTING SERVICES - A computerized system and method for preparing at least one tax return, including, but not limited to: accepting tax information, by at least one accounting module, for the at least one tax return from at least one user; processing the tax information, at the at least accounting module, so that at least one third party tax software application can utilize the tax information to calculate the at least one tax return; and providing calculated results of the at least one tax return, from the at least one accounting module, to the at least one user; wherein third-party software is utilized to calculate the at least one tax return so that the at least one accounting module does not need to calculate the at least one tax return. | 03-31-2011 |
20110131119 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR GENERATING AND TRACKING FIELD VALUES OF MORTGAGE FORMS - A system for generating field values of mortgage forms. The system includes a database, a calculation module, a monitoring module. The database contains jurisdictional tax and fee information used to calculate field values for the mortgage form. The calculation module is configured to calculate field values for the mortgage form and to generate a transaction log for mortgage and related transactions. The monitoring module communicates with the database and identifies when changes in the field values of tax and fee information occur in the transaction log, and report those changes to the affected lender. | 06-02-2011 |
20110145112 | FLEXIBLE AND ADAPTIVE ACCRUAL METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CALCULATING AND FACILITATING COMPLIANCE WITH TAXES AND OTHER OBLIGATIONS - A computer-based system and method calculates and facilitates revenue accrual, for making larger, less frequent payments of estimated taxes or other obligations. Payer preferences are applied to satisfy variable payment intervals, amounts, and available resources. The obligation, required payments, and set-aside schedules are recalculated as needed, under payer and/or system control. Excess accruals are minimized; set-aside schedules are configurable. The system may be self-contained, handheld, or accessed remotely. Automatic datalinks move information and command fund transfers from the payer's bank, to accrue funds and make payments to other accounts. A service host may support a plurality of payers to make set-asides and payments at various levels as needed, on an individual or batch basis, including individual taxpayer enrollment for batch file tax payments by service providers. Some embodiments can be embedded to enhance the capabilities of other systems. | 06-16-2011 |
20110153473 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MANAGING ROYALTY PAYMENTS - A comprehensive platform for merchandising intellectual property (IP) and conducting IP transactions is disclosed. A standardized data collection method enables IP assets to be characterized, rated and valuated in a consistent manner. Project management, workflow and data security functionality enable consistent, efficient and secure interactions between the IP Marketplace participants throughout the IP transaction process. Business rules, workflows, valuation models and rating methods may be user defined or based upon marketplace, industry or technology standards. | 06-23-2011 |
20110153474 | ELECTRIC VEHICLE CHARGING AND ACCOUNTING - Electric vehicle charging stations include a time of use meter that can be programmed with different time periods so that different tariffs can be applied to energy readings of those different time periods. The time periods may be specific to electric vehicle operators. The tariffs may also be specific to electric vehicle operators and apply to charging stations that are supplied with electricity from different electric utilities. | 06-23-2011 |
20110153475 | FEDERAL ADJUSTMENT TRACKING SYSTEM - Tracking federal adjustments includes receiving an automated upload at a database, from a tax platform implemented on at least one processor, of at least one of: a beginning balance, a thirteenth period adjustment and an ending balance for a general ledger account. User input specifying a type of tax report is received. A report itemizing data stored in the database and calculations based on the data stored in the database, in accordance with the user input. | 06-23-2011 |
20110153476 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETERMINING TAX LIABILITY IN RESPONSE TO A MOBILITY - A tax event system is configured to evaluate a taxable event that gives rise to tax liability in multiple jurisdictions. The system provides for real time determination of location information (e.g. work location, residence location, assignment location, and the like) for the calculation of tax liability. Such real time analysis allows for transactions to be settled and tax liability to be satisfied in time periods prescribed by various regulating authorities. | 06-23-2011 |
20110191215 | UNIVERSAL TAX ENGINE - A program controlled apparatus, system, and method for determining the transactional taxes due for each item by any taxing authority worldwide. The apparatus comprises a first database comprising a tree structure identifying all of the zones to be examined. A second database comprising all of the taxing authorities is independent from the first zone database. A third database, decoupled from the first and second databases, has data representing the relationship between the data records of the first database and the data records of the second database. Each of the databases can be updated periodically to reflect any changes in identified taxing authorities for the zones over which they may have taxing authority. Furthermore, the present invention provides for an independent, autonomous determination of jurisdiction and tax for each line item and calculates the tax based on any exceptions and exemptions. | 08-04-2011 |
20110191216 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CALCULATING TAXES AND MULTI-CURRENCY PRICING - A method and a system for determining taxes attributable to a financial transaction create a tax rate table, link an entity of the financial transaction to the tax rate table through a product rule, and calculate taxes based on the tax rate table according to one component of the financial transaction. The tax rate tables can be linked by a default product rule, which is a defined by a global variable. Alternatively, specific product rules can be used to link specific entities, such as tax jurisdiction records, or legal entity records. In one application, the method and the system calculate revenue tax, cost tax, input tax, and profits for each transaction. The method and the system may further include multi-currency support analysis for a financial transaction so that a financial transaction can be analyzed under a common currency, even though the financial transaction is conducted using one or more currencies in one or more jurisdictions. | 08-04-2011 |
20110218894 | Variable Taxation System and Method - A variable taxation/variable goods control system includes a consumer database populated with a plurality of consumers, a goods database populated with one or more goods limits for a predetermined time period, and a tax rate database populated with at least a first tax rate and a second tax rate. Each of the plurality of consumers in the consumer database is affiliated with at least a first goods limit in the energy database. Each consumer in the consumer database is affiliated with at least the first tax rate in the tax rate database, the first tax rate corresponding to the first goods limit. Each consumer is taxed at the first tax rate for goods purchases up to the consumer's first goods limit, and each consumer is taxed at the second or higher tax rate for goods purchases beyond the first goods limit. | 09-08-2011 |
20110218895 | METHODS, APPARATUS, SYSTEMS AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUMS FOR USE IN ASSOCIATION WITH DETERMINATION OF CUSTOMS DUTIES - According to some embodiments, a system, a method and/or a computer readable medium are provided. According to some embodiments, a method includes receiving, by a processor, data indicative of a plurality of imported components, each one of the plurality of imported components being subject to an import duty if a respective condition associated with the imported component is not satisfied; maintaining, by a processor, data indicative of ones of the plurality of imported components for which the respective condition has not been satisfied; wherein the maintaining data indicative of ones of the plurality of imported components for which the respective condition has not been satisfied comprises: providing data indicative of ones of the plurality of imported components for which the respective condition has not been satisfied; and updating the data indicative of ones of the plurality of imported components for which the respective condition has not been satisfied; and after the maintaining data indicative of ones of the plurality of imported components for which the respective condition has not been satisfied, determining, by a processor, a respective duty owed for each of the ones of the plurality of imported components for which the respective condition has not been satisfied. | 09-08-2011 |
20110218896 | VEHICLE TRAVEL MONITORING AND PAYMENT SYSTEMS AND METHODS - The invention provides various methods and systems for collecting and allocating road use fees. The invention may include receiving funds from a party, wherein the party is responsible for operation of a vehicle. Data indicating where the vehicle has travelled may be received by a computer system. A jurisdiction may be identified where road use fees are due based on where the vehicle has travelled. Fees due to the jurisdiction may be calculated based on the jurisdiction's road use fee schedule. The fee due for road use may be deducted from an account of the vehicle's operator. | 09-08-2011 |
20110246341 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR TAX ALLOCATION TO PARTNERS IN U.S. PARTNERSHIPS - A method and apparatus are provided which allocate a U.S. partnership's pass-through items of distributive income to partners (also called “tax allocations”). Data of a partnership's distributive items of income, and partners' book and tax capital account values (these terms as defined in the Treasury Regulations) are received and an optimization including all of these data is performed to implement the partner tax allocation that are compliant with the relevant sections of the Internal Revenue Code [1] and the relevant Treasury Regulations [2, 3, 4]. Partners' distributive tax allocations provided to the partnership based on the optimization. | 10-06-2011 |
20110264569 | METHOD, SYSTEM, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM FOR PREDICTING TAX LIABILITES AND BENEFITS - A method, a system, and a computer program for predicting an impact of a tax event on a user's tax liabilities at any intermediate time during a current tax year based on a comparison of known and predicted user information related to the user and the user's taxes, tax event information, and a tax deduction database of tax deductions, credits, and eligibility rules. The computer program and method for predicting the impact of the tax event comprise acquiring information about the user from a user profile, acquiring information about the tax event, comparing the user information and the tax event information with requirements for tax deductions and credits offered by a taxing authority, and identifying deductions or credits having requirements related to the user information and the tax event information. Furthermore, embodiments may also comprise determining a probability that the user will qualify for the deduction or credit based on both the known and predicted user information, the tax event information, and the requirements for tax deductions and credits for the current year. | 10-27-2011 |
20110264570 | METHOD, SYSTEM, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM FOR PREDICTING TAX LIABILITIES AND BENEFITS - A method, a system, and a computer program for suggesting to the user a tax event to reduce the user's tax liability. Embodiments comprise accessing known user information related to the user and the user's taxes, wherein the known user information includes at least some information for a current tax year to date; comparing the known user information with requirements for at least one of tax deductions and tax credits offered by a taxing authority for the current tax year; identifying deductions or credits having requirements related to the known user information; and suggesting to the user a tax event for reducing the user's tax liability, wherein the suggested tax event is based at least partially on the known user information and the identified deductions or credits having requirements related to the known user information. | 10-27-2011 |
20110288972 | Information Processing System and Method for Managing and Determining Tax Information - A multi-user information processing system and method for managing a multi-jurisdictional entity's data for determining tax returns information and tax provision information, and for tax planning purposes. The system includes a database for storing data, a calculation engine for determining tax returns information and tax provision information based on data stored in the database, a user interface unit for creating dataset(s) and manipulating the dataset(s) for tax planning purposes, and a report engine for producing reports using information from the database. | 11-24-2011 |
20110302066 | Method and system for automated tax appeal - A system and method enables users to prepare property and other types of tax appeal forms by an automated template while performing back-end database look-ups and analyses to determine the extent of the appeal. The template can be readily adjusted or added by system administrators to accommodate changes in the tax procedures or newly added jurisdictions, respectively. | 12-08-2011 |
20110307359 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MANAGING ADDRESS AND TAX INVENTORY DATA - An exemplary method includes a computing system accessing inventory data maintained in a repository of inventory data, the inventory data maintained for use in determining tax revenue to be collected from at least one customer, and auditing the inventory data, the audit including accessing a data record included in the inventory data, subjecting the data record to at least one of a validation process, a range split condition check process, and a tax code identifier check process, and generating output data representative of a result produced by the at least one of the validation process, the range split condition check process, and the tax code identifier check process. When the result indicates an error condition, the output data is configured to facilitate a correction of the error condition in the inventory data included in the repository of inventory data. Corresponding methods and systems are also disclosed. | 12-15-2011 |
20110313901 | REFUND SYSTEM AND METHOD - In response to receipt of an identifier for at least one of a user or a purchase transaction, a validation system prompts a user to input information for obtaining a tax refund associated with one or more purchase transactions. The validation system causes information relating to users and purchase transactions and stored in a storage system to be updated based on information input by the user. The validation system transmits a validation request message that identifies the user to an approval system that has access to the storage system to validate a tax refund for the one or more purchases for an eligible user, eligibility being derived from user related information. The validation system receives a response message from the approval system and indicates to the user whether a refund associated with the one or more purchases has been validated. | 12-22-2011 |
20120022983 | Web Based Tax Preparation - A web based tax preparation system may enable communication between an individual and a tax preparer by way of a kiosk or personal computer. The individual scans tax documents and checks the clarity of the scanned tax documents. Thereafter, the scanned and checked tax documents are transmitted to a tax preparer or made available to the tax preparer at which time the tax preparer and the individual are connected by way of a web conference. The tax preparer and the individual may simultaneously view the scanned tax documents as well as the tax return being prepared for the individual. This process streamlines the tax preparation process and also allows the individual to prepare his/her tax returns in the comfort of his/her own home as well as a kiosk which is less intimidating than making a personal appointment with a professional tax preparer. | 01-26-2012 |
20120022984 | TOOL FOR CALCULATING TAX CREDIT AMOUNT AND ELIGIBILITY - An online web-based software application is disclosed to calculate the exact amount of tax credit that a business may receive under the Small Business Tax Credit under Section 45R of the Internal Revenue Code, Title 26 of the United States Code, based on the state each employee works and health care coverage provided by the business to its employees. In one embodiment, a system for determining a healthcare tax credit using a web-based healthcare tax credit calculating tool is disclosed. The healthcare tax credit calculating tool resides on a web server and is accessible from a remote device by a user or users over a wide area network. | 01-26-2012 |
20120030076 | System and method for risk-based data assessment - Systems, methods, and computer program products are provided for transforming data into a format suitable for analytics use, such as statistically-based risk assessments. In one exemplary embodiment, the method may include receiving data from one or more data sources, and generating one or more associations among the received data, the associations providing links between one or more data elements of the received data. In addition, the method may include generating one or more segmented data sets based on the received data and the one or more associations, the segmented data sets reflecting an organization of the received data, and integrating one or more variables related to the received data into the one or more segmented data sets to create pre-processed data. Furthermore, the method may include outputting the pre-processed data and integrated real-time data for application of analytics. | 02-02-2012 |
20120036053 | Tax Liability And Deductions Verification System - A computer implemented method and system for verifying tax liability and tax deductions reported by taxable entities. A tax monitoring platform comprising a database management system dynamically generates one or more tax forms specific to each taxable entity based on characteristic information of the taxable entities. The tax monitoring platform acquires tax information filled into the tax forms by the taxable entities via a user interface, extracts tax elements from the tax information, and transforms the tax elements to conform to a predetermined template. The tax monitoring platform determines an association between a first taxable entity and a second taxable entity based on the tax elements of each of the taxable entities, and compares the tax elements of the first taxable entity with the tax elements of the second taxable entity based on the association using the database management system, for determining the accuracy of reporting of tax information. | 02-09-2012 |
20120072320 | Tax-return assembly, apparatus, and method - An apparatus, and an associated method for a tax kiosk provides for a tax filer to enter information related to a tax return that is required to be prepared for the tax filer. Both tax-filer information and tax-form information is collected at the kiosk. Once collected, the collected information is sent to a remote location at which the tax return is prepared. | 03-22-2012 |
20120072321 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR CENTRALIZED GLOBAL TAX COMPUTATION, MANAGEMENT, AND COMPLIANCE REPORTING - Methods, apparatus, and articles of manufacture for tax computation, management, and compliance reporting via a centralized transactional tax platform capable of incorporating transaction data and/or tax information from multiple locations and/or multiple business applications via a network architecture are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, a central server may be configured to execute an application to generate a user interface to enable configuration of tax compliance data via a network link, to receive transaction data from one or more client systems via the network, to calculate transaction taxes corresponding to the transaction data, and to store tax information, including outputs and computational logic generated by tax calculation engines executed by the server. In another embodiment, the tax calculations may be executed client-side, while administration of tax compliance data and reporting are facilitated by the central server. | 03-22-2012 |
20120084185 | SYSTEM, COMPUTER PROGRAM, AND METHOD FOR ONLINE, REAL-TIME DELIVERY OF CONSUMER TAX SERVICES - A system, a method, and a computer program for performing an online, real-time tax consultation for preparation of a client's taxes by a tax agent, wherein the tax agent is remote from the client, and the system is implemented via an electronic, online application accessible via a communications network. Embodiments allow for a client desiring tax preparation of a tax return to initiate the tax preparation with a tax agent via an online, integrated platform; electronically upload or otherwise push the client's tax-related information and documents to the tax agent; participate in an online tax consultation so that the tax agent may investigate, learn, or otherwise obtain the tax information necessary for completing the client's tax return; and electronically approve and file the completed tax return. | 04-05-2012 |
20120109792 | INSTANT TAX RETURN PREPARATION - A method involves generating a partially completed tax return based on basic user information without needing to obtain other user inputs through an extensive user interview. A list of simple and concise interview questions are generated or selected from an interview question collection based on the partially completed tax return to finalize the tax return. The method further involves using an inference engine to allow data collection at any time and in any order via specific, personalized questions geared toward completion of the tax return. Therefore the taxpayer spends time reviewing rather than preparing his or her tax documents. | 05-03-2012 |
20120109793 | FLEXIBLE AND ADAPTIVE ACCRUAL METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CALCULATING AND FACILITATING COMPLIANCE WITH TAXES AND OTHER OBLIGATIONS - A computer-based system and method calculates and facilitates periodic revenue accrual for making larger, less frequent payments of estimated taxes by electronic messaging. A service host enables a plurality of payers to make set-asides at various levels as needed, on an individual or batch basis. Payer preferences are applied to satisfy variable payment intervals, amounts, and available resources. The obligation, required payments, and set-aside schedules are recalculated as needed, under payer and/or system control. Excess accruals are minimized; set-aside schedules are configurable. Automatic data links move information and command fund transfers from the payer's bank, to accrue funds and make payments to other accounts. The service host provides individual or batch taxpayer enrollment with the taxing authority for tax payment by electronic messages, and makes the tax payments by transmission of individual payment messages or by batch file transmission to the taxing authority. | 05-03-2012 |
20120136764 | ON-LINE TAX PREPARATION APPLICATION SCREEN NAVIGATION USING URL BOOKMARKS - Bookmarking interview screens of an electronic tax return prepared using an on-line tax preparation application. A widget or other element is executed by a user to request a URL bookmark of a screen. A bookmark program of or associated with the on-line tax preparation application dynamically generates a URL bookmark based at least in part upon context data of the screen identifying a path to the screen within hierarchical structure of screens. The URL bookmark is provided to the user and may be utilized to jump to the bookmarked screen without having retracing prior navigation steps through multiple screens before the subject screen. Embodiments may be utilized by technical support persons assisting end users, e.g., by requesting a URL bookmark in the form of a hypertext link and sending the link to a screen to an end user who may click on the link to jump to the bookmarked screen. | 05-31-2012 |
20120150704 | Voice Assisted Vehicle Recording Device For Recording, Tracking and Reporting Vehicle Business Expenses - A method of recording for future reference the use of a vehicle which is not normally used for a business purpose is being used for a business purpose and is an allowable IRS expense for that business purpose wherein, subsequent to initiating the process by pressing a button on the steering wheel or on the dashboard and prior to moving the vehicle, a recording is made of the odometer reading on the vehicle, the date of the trip and the purpose of the trip. At the completion of the trip a recording is made of the odometer reading on the vehicle to obtain the true total distance traveled and the allowable tax deductable expense for the use of the vehicle during the business purpose is recorded where the allowable tax deductable expense is based on miles traveled and other related allowable expenses incurred. | 06-14-2012 |
20120158559 | COMPUTER-BASED SYSTEM - A computer-based system for determining insurance premium taxes (IPT) for multiple clients in a plurality of jurisdictions comprises an electronic database containing data identifying a plurality of classes of risk in each tax jurisdiction for which IPT is payable, the tax rates for each tax type applicable to each class of risk in each jurisdiction, the tax-collection organisation(s) in each jurisdiction for each class of risk, and financial data supplied by clients. Software associated with the database receives financial data from each client relating to insurance transactions for which IPT is payable and stores said data in the database, determines from said financial data the relevant class(es) of risk for each jurisdiction and the tax payable in respect thereof to each tax-collection organisation in the jurisdiction, and prepares a tax return for each transaction for which IPT is due. | 06-21-2012 |
20120166321 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR TAX COLLECTION - A processing apparatus is configured to automatically collect and distribute funds raised by a Business Levy which is imposed by a main government on the gross revenues of all business entities within the economy, subject to optional exemptions. Taxable entities are required to maintain a special account with a bank within jurisdiction into which they must deposit all taxable business revenues. Taxable entities may not access such revenue until after the bank has transferred the appropriate amount, corresponding to the Business Levy, from the gross receipts account to the main government account. Thereafter levy-paid balances are transferred to a general operating account maintained by the bank for the benefit of the taxpayer, which may be accessed freely by the taxation entity. Preferably, such a method of collecting revenues is used to finance governments' budgets on all levels of administration: federal, state or provincial and county and/or municipal, replacing all other taxes and fees imposed by all levels of governments. | 06-28-2012 |
20120197771 | ACCOUNTS PAYABLE TAX RULES PROCESSING SYSTEM AND METHOD - A system for generation of accounts payable processing system tax rules is provided. A tax account system generates an account for a tax jurisdiction. An over-tax rule system generates one or more rules for processing a tax amount in excess of a required tax amount associated with the tax jurisdiction. An under-tax rule system generates one or more rules for processing a tax amount that is less than the required tax amount associated with the tax jurisdiction. | 08-02-2012 |
20120215669 | SYSTEMS METHODS AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCTS FOR ENCODING AND DECODING TAX RETURN DATA - Tax data, e.g., Form W2 data, is encoded as a two-dimensional machine readable representation, such as a QR CODE. Certain tax data is encoded as segments of a QR CODE, and a tax form generated by an employer or payroll processing service and provided to an employee or user includes the QR CODE representing certain W-2 or other tax data. An image of the QR CODE is acquired using a camera of a mobile communication device or computer or other image capture device. When using a Smartphone, a tax preparation application executing on the Smartphone decodes the QR CODE image to determine the tax data, and populates fields of an electronic tax return with decoded data, thus allowing a consumer to prepare an electronic tax return using a mobile communication device. | 08-23-2012 |
20120215670 | Method, System and Computer Program Product for Processing Tax Notices - A method, system and computer program product includes entering information from a tax notification into a system using a workflow where the system searches a database for a matching company. The system determines a status of the tax notification, generates a template letter to be communicated to the company, and places the tax notification on an active notice listing. An active notification is selected to process using a workflow. A research workflow is selected if research of the active notification is required. The system stores the research results in the database, determines a change in status of the active notification, and generates a template letter to the company. An actuals workflow is selected if payment of penalties and interest or receipt of refund is required. The system presents an abatement workflow when penalties and interest are due and generates template letters to the company of and an agency. | 08-23-2012 |
20120226591 | TAX RETURN EVALUATION SYSTEM - Tax returns are received from one or more tax agencies. Each tax return is compared to a stored profile, and a determination is made as to whether each tax return falls within a trend. An evaluation of the tax return is generated based on the comparison and the determination of whether the tax return falls within the trend. The evaluation includes an indication of the tax returns potential to be a fraudulent tax return. | 09-06-2012 |
20120233043 | Mobile Device and Method for Determining a Number of Days Before a Tax Liability Trigger - The present disclosure relates to a mobile device and method for determining a number of days before a tax liability trigger. In one embodiment, a mobile device receives location information identifying a country that the mobile device is present in and tracks a number of days the mobile device is present in the country. The mobile device determines a number of days before a tax liability trigger occurs in the country based on the tracked number of days and tax information of the user of the mobile device, and then displays the number of days before the tax liability trigger. | 09-13-2012 |
20120239538 | INFORMATION MODEL FOR PROPERTY RECORDS MANAGEMENT - An information model for a party and property records management system includes a legal party role object for maintaining relationships between objects, such as legal party objects and revenue-object objects, within the information model. A legal party object could have several associated objects, such as an identification number object or a legal party communication object. | 09-20-2012 |
20120246037 | TRANSACTION TAX SETTLEMENT IN PERSONAL COMMUNICATION DEVICES - A transactional tax settlement system for use with a personal communication device is provided. The system has particular usefulness in determining a taxing authority and calculating a tax rate imposed by the taxing authority in a communication network environment. The system may be used to determine a tax authority and corresponding tax rate for a buyer/seller transaction over a network, e.g., the Internet. The system may also be used to determine a tax authority and corresponding tax rate in a mobile telecommunications network, e.g., a cellular phone. The system includes a tax information system for determining the taxing authorities and corresponding tax rates by evaluating factors pertaining to the transaction such as, location, tax status, and transaction description. In addition, the tax information system may validate a payment modality, collect taxes, and account for the transaction. | 09-27-2012 |
20120246038 | TRANSACTION TAX SETTLEMENT IN PERSONAL COMMUNICATION DEVICES - A transactional tax settlement system for use with a personal communication device is provided. The system has particular usefulness in determining a taxing authority and calculating a tax rate imposed by the taxing authority in a communication network environment. The system may be used to determine a tax authority and corresponding tax rate for a buyer/seller transaction over a network, e.g., the Internet. The system may also be used to determine a tax authority and corresponding tax rate in a mobile telecommunications network, e.g., a cellular phone. The system includes a tax information system for determining the taxing authorities and corresponding tax rates by evaluating factors pertaining to the transaction such as, location, tax status, and transaction description. In addition, the tax information system may validate a payment modality, collect taxes, and account for the transaction. | 09-27-2012 |
20120253999 | INVOICING MANAGEMENT METHOD AND SYSTEM - An invoicing management method and system for an electronic transaction relating to the purchase of goods and/or services by a bearer, characterised in that it has the following steps: collection of at least one bearer-identification element contained in a data medium by the reading device of a terminal; retrieval of an ordered set of data elements corresponding to the transaction characteristics from a previously downloaded application interface and input device of the terminal; transmission of the at least one identification element and the ordered set of retrieved data elements to a central server; generation of an electronic invoice by the processing device of the central server, on the basis of identification data associated with the identification element in a database of the server and the ordered set of retrieved data elements; and archiving of the electronic invoice in the database of the central server. | 10-04-2012 |
20120303495 | USER INTERFACE FOR TAX-RETURN PREPARATION - A method is implementable in an electronic system coupled to an electronic device, which is, in turn, coupled to a display device. A web page displayable on the display device is served to the electronic device. The displayed web page includes a user interface, which, in turn, includes a frame and at least one stile defining a plurality of panes within the frame. In a first one of the panes, at least one field into which a tax-data provider can input tax data is displayed. In a second one of the panes, information of a first type of a plurality of information types operable to assist the provider in performing a first operation of a set of operations using the user interface is displayed. Input tax data is received from the electronic device. | 11-29-2012 |
20120310799 | PAYROLL RECONCILIATION SYSTEMS AND METHODS - A method of payroll reconciliation comprising providing a first set of employee payroll data relating to at least one paycheck previously issued to an employee; preparing an adjusting check using the first set of employee payroll data on a paycheck system comprising a client interface comprising a plurality of editable fields; allowing a user to edit data on the plurality of the editable fields, wherein the data on the plurality of the editable fields for the adjusting check comprises cumulative earnings and taxes; storing in a computer readable medium the data for the adjusting check; and preparing an employee paycheck using the paycheck system. | 12-06-2012 |
20120323749 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DATA PRIVACY AND CATEGORIZATION OF SALES AND USE TAX DATA - A system may include a computing system comprising processing device, an input device, an output device, a storage device, and a network device. A computer program may configure the at least one computing system to receive, via the network device, sales and use tax data, store, on the storage device, the received sales and use tax data, extract an interstate sales entry from the stored sales and use tax data, analyze, using the processing device, the interstate sales entry to determine a jurisdiction associated with the interstate sales entry, privatize a SKU in the interstate sales entry, and store a transaction record in a database on the storage device, the transaction record including the determined jurisdiction and the privatized SKU. | 12-20-2012 |
20130013471 | LOCATION-BASED TAX RATE ACQUISITION AND MANAGEMENT - Various embodiments are provided for location-based tax rate acquisition and management. Acquisition comprises access to various types of tax rates (sales tax rates, use tax rates, specialty tax rates, user-defined tax rates, etc.) for one or more tax jurisdictions in a geographical or geopolitical area. In one aspect, acquisition can comprise a monitoring service to track changes in tax information, such as tax rates, for a specific location, changes in tax rates for a specific jurisdiction, or changes in tax jurisdiction boundaries. | 01-10-2013 |
20130036034 | Method and System for Distributed Network Accounting - This disclosure relates to a method and system for storing beneficiary allocation preferences and processing financial transactions across a multiplicity of independent media publishers and socially responsible advocates operating over a distributed computer network wherein subscribers elect varying levels of support for geographically diverse beneficiaries having dissimilar accounting, accrual, legal and organizational structures, and wherein proceeds from subscriber-initiated financial transactions are allocated among the beneficiaries according to subscriber preference. | 02-07-2013 |
20130080302 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ORGANIZING TAX INFORMATION AND PROVIDING TAX ADVICE - A method includes providing to a user a set of computer-executable instructions that, when executed by a user's electronic device, generate a user interface displayable on a display device coupled to the user's electronic device, presenting to the user via the user interface a plurality of solicitations for a set of personal information describing characteristics of the user, receiving via the user interface the personal information set, and, based on the personal information set, generating to the user interface a checklist of tax return preparation information to be compiled by the user. | 03-28-2013 |
20130085913 | AUTOMATED SALES TAX PAYMENT SYSTEM - Described are technologies relating to transaction processing. In general, one aspect of the subject matter described herein can be embodied in methods that include the actions of calculating, in relation to a transaction, one or more tax amounts associated with a price of the transaction, obtaining, in relation to a payment source, an approval for at least the price of the transaction and the one or more tax amounts, thereby defining an approved sales transaction, and, subsequent to obtaining the approval, (a) settling at least a revenue portion of one or more approved sales transactions in favor of a first account, and (b) settling the one or more tax amounts in favor of a second account that is different than the first account. | 04-04-2013 |
20130110687 | AUTOMATED RECONCILIATION OF PAYROLL AND TAX REPORTS | 05-02-2013 |
20130179314 | Risk Based Data Assessment - A system for receiving and processing data includes a data processing and verification component that accepts data from a client in an electronic format and identifies therefrom data elements that can be directly verified. A risk assessment component receives data elements that have not been identified as directly verifiable and assesses a risk that the data elements are incomplete or incorrect. The risk assessment component generates risk assessment data. A decision support component receives the risk assessment data from the risk assessment component and selects appropriate actions for subsequent processing of the client data according to the assessment of risk contained in the risk assessment data. | 07-11-2013 |
20130191256 | AUTOMATED TAX DIAGNOSTIC SYSTEMS AND PROCESSES - Accounting functionality integratable into an ERP system such as, e.g., SAP® is described. The functionality provides multiple features including automatically reconciling vendor-billed tax such as on manual or automatic invoices and tax calculated by third party tax software. The functionality is configurable to automatically decide if a particular document is to be processed based on various parameters. Appropriate outputs may be made to accounting records. In one aspect, the functionality includes calculating and recording tax accruals on various sources including inventory movements. In one aspect, automation of the process of evaluating the accuracy of transaction tax results on procure-to-pay and order-to-cash transaction data is described. | 07-25-2013 |
20130198047 | METHOD, SYSTEM, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM FOR PREDICTING TAX LIABILITIES ASSOCIATED WITH REPORTABLE INCOME ON A 1099 FORM - A method, a system, and a computer program for predicting an impact of a tax event, such as reportable income on a 1099 form, on a user's tax liabilities at any intermediate time during a current tax year based on a comparison of known and predicted user information related to the user and the user's taxes, tax event information, and a tax deduction database of tax deductions, credits, and eligibility rules. The computer program and method for predicting the impact of the tax event comprise acquiring information about the user from a user profile, acquiring information about the tax event, comparing the user information and the tax event information with requirements for tax deductions and credits offered by a taxing authority, and identifying deductions or credits having requirements related to the user information and the tax event information. | 08-01-2013 |
20130204758 | Novel tax simplification table product for tax rate and tax calculations - The present invention relates to a tax simplification table product to convert all Tax Table and tax calculations into the simplification table product with filing status, taxable income, tax rate formula, tax rate range check, tax rate and tax calculations together. Tax rate formulas are connected with filing statuses. A calculated tax rate is examined and compared with its correct tax rate range, which avoid or reduce calculation mistakes. Related calculations are done automatically or manually. Automatic calculations are done by a calculator or computer software product. Manual calculations are done by paper work easily. Existing Tax Tables from federal and local governments are not needed. The Tax Tables are replaced by tax rate formulas. The tax simplification table product simplifies the existing government tax systems and save time and cost significantly for individuals, corporations and governments. | 08-08-2013 |
20130218735 | USER INTERFACE FOR TAX-RETURN PREPARATION - A method is implementable in an electronic system coupled to an electronic device, which is, in turn, coupled to a display device. A web page displayable on the display device is served to the electronic device. The displayed web page includes a user interface, which, in turn, includes a frame and at least one stile defining a plurality of panes within the frame. In a first one of the panes, at least one field into which a tax-data provider can input tax data is displayed. In a second one of the panes, information of a first type of a plurality of information types operable to assist the provider in performing a first operation of a set of operations using the user interface is displayed. Input tax data is received from the electronic device. | 08-22-2013 |
20130246234 | SOFTWARE AND METHODS TO MANAGE A TAX PREPARATION COMPANY - A software application and related business methods enable a tax preparation business to organize and track its clientele and monetary volume without regard to business volume. In addition, the software and methods can be used to generate a commission-issued payroll with minimal management and oversight. The software and methods can work in conjunction with conventional tax preparation software by adding the missing managerial component to improve its use as it pertains to the day-to-day operations of the tax preparation business. | 09-19-2013 |
20130262279 | TAX ANALYSIS TOOL - Systems, methods, and other embodiments associated with a tax analysis tool are described. In one embodiment, a method includes providing a tax analysis data model, preloaded key performance indicator queries, and a query interface. The example method may also include extracting tax related data from a tax analysis data base and transforming and loading the tax related data into a tax data warehouse that facilitates real time processing of KPI queries. | 10-03-2013 |
20130275281 | Method and System of Detecting Invalid Homestead Exemptions - Disclosed is a system and method for detecting invalid homestead exemptions. In a preferred embodiment, the system and method stores information about parcels in a geographic area and compares that information with public information concerning that geographic information. The public information may include tax information, residency information, valuation information, and other information. | 10-17-2013 |
20130282538 | INFORMATION MODEL FOR PROPERTY RECORDS MANAGEMENT - An information model for a party and property records management system includes a legal party role object for maintaining relationships between objects, such as legal party objects and revenue-object objects, within the information model. A legal party object could have several associated objects, such as an identification number object or a legal party communication object. | 10-24-2013 |
20130282539 | DISTRIBUTED TAX-RETURN-PREPARATION PROCESSING - A method and system includes providing to a tax-data provider a set of computer-executable instructions that, when executed by an electronic device, generate a user interface displayable on a display device coupled to the electronic device and operable to enable the tax-data provider to enter a tax-data set. The electronic system receives, but does not store, the tax-data set. A mathematical operation is performed using the received tax data, yielding a value. The electronic system provides the value to the electronic device. | 10-24-2013 |
20130317957 | Location Based Determination of Payroll Tax Withholding - Determining a payroll tax withholding can comprise receiving, at a tax calculation system, a residential address and an employment address of an employee, determining latitude and longitude coordinates of the residential and employment addresses, retrieving a plurality of residential geocodes associated with the latitude and longitude coordinates of the residential address, wherein the plurality of residential geocodes include tax boundaries in which the location of the residential address resides, retrieving a plurality of employment geocodes associated with the latitude and longitude coordinates of the employment address, wherein the plurality of employment geocodes include tax boundaries in which the location of the employment address resides, and retrieving applicable tax rates corresponding to the plurality of residential geocodes and the plurality of employment geocodes from a tax rate database. The applicable tax rates include at least one of include state, county, city, school district, and municipal tax codes. | 11-28-2013 |
20130346266 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF IDENTIFYING TRANSACTIONS OVER A PAYMENT CARD NETWORK SUBJECTABLE TO A CONDITIONAL CONSUMPTION TAX - In one aspect, a method is provided herein of identifying transactions being processed over a payment card network which may be subjected to a conditional consumption tax. The method includes receiving, via the payment card network, a payment authorization message corresponding to a transaction between a user and a merchant. Further, the method includes determining, using a computer, from the payment authorization message, a user geographical code for the user. Similarly, the method includes determining, using a computer, from the payment authorization message, a merchant geographical code for the merchant. Using a computer, the method calls for comparing the geographical code of the user and the geographical code of the merchant with a demesne of a first tax authority. If the geographical code of the user and the geographical code of the merchant are within the demesne of the first tax authority, then, determining the transaction has no conditional consumption tax burden under the first tax authority. If the geographical code of the user and the geographical code of the merchant are not both within the demesne of the first tax authority, then, identifying the transaction as subjectable to conditional consumption tax by the first tax authority. Advantageously, with the method of the subject invention, transactions over a payment card network can be reviewed to determine if conditional consumption taxes, such as use taxes, apply while being normally processed. | 12-26-2013 |
20140006234 | CONSISTENT INTERFACE FOR CUSTOMER PROJECT EXPENSE LIST AND DEVIATING TAX CALCULATION RULE | 01-02-2014 |
20140040084 | MANAGING CONSISTENT INTERFACES FOR TAX AUTHORITY BUSINESS OBJECTS ACROSS HETEROGENEOUS SYSTEMS - A business object model, which reflects data that is used during a given business transaction, is utilized to generate interfaces. This business object model facilitates commercial transactions by providing consistent interfaces that are suitable for use across industries, across businesses, and across different departments within a business during a business transaction. In some operations, software creates, updates, or otherwise processes information related to a tax assessment notice, a tax form, a tax object, a tax obligation and/or a tax return business object. | 02-06-2014 |
20140052592 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR TAX COLLECTION, ANALYSIS AND COMPLIANCE - A collection and analysis system is described herein. The system may serve as an “eye in the sky” to observe, assess, collect and audit taxes on most non-cash transactions. The system may query an electronic payment processor to produce a dataset relevant to a particular tax authority, analyze that data, and thereafter send instructions directing the electronic payment processor to deduct and transfer tax monies to an account controlled by the tax authority and/or its agents prior to settlement with the vendor. The system may leverage the electronic transaction information, and third party databases and other information, to further identify vendors who are subject to the jurisdiction of the tax authority and to provide auditing services. | 02-20-2014 |
20140058910 | METHOD FOR DETECTING IDENTITY MISREPRESENTATION IN FRAUDULENT TAX RETURNS - A method for detecting identity theft and other fraudulent information in a tax return or other document requesting a refund or payment includes extracting key information from the document, comparing the key information with data obtained from a database, and flagging the document for further consideration if the document does not meet a minimum threshold of credibility. The key information can include a name, social security number, address, place of employment, wage data, and/or fraction of income withheld for taxes. The database can contain suspicious fact patterns of known fraudulent documents. A document can be flagged due to a single fact pattern comparison or due to a combination thereof, or due to a data contradiction. Databases can include IRS databases, other non-public governmental databases, public governmental databases, and non-governmental databases. Fraud can also be detected by tracking use of the refund or payment after it is issued. | 02-27-2014 |
20140067632 | Automatic Generation of Transfer Pricing Documentation - A system and method for automatically generating transfer price documentation is described. In some examples, the system includes a tool that receives information from an enterprise for provided services and intangibles within the enterprise, automatically determines one or more allocations for the provided services and intangibles, and generates reports based on the determined allocations. | 03-06-2014 |
20140074672 | Fraud tracking network - A tax fraud finder network is provided with a device for calculating a score based on information provided to government agencies by using multiple collections of information. An HEV algorithm uses mismatches in different sets of collections to arrive at a display and edit score. A report is generated and sent to local government agencies to find violations. | 03-13-2014 |
20140089151 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROCESSING TAX CODES BY COMPANY GROUP - A system and method for assigning taxability codes to purchases, and processing tax invoices, by company groups. A user, identified to one of a group of companies, inputs a requisition. Tax code and tax location are identified in a front end process applicable to the object of the requisition and converted into a converted tax code and tax jurisdiction and fed to a back end processor. Responsive to converted tax code and the tax jurisdiction for the corresponding company group, the back end prepares a purchase order which is transmitted to a supplier. Responsive to an invoice from the supplier and company group and tax code indicia from the purchase order, the back end processes and selectively pays, short pays, or rejects the invoice. | 03-27-2014 |
20140101009 | AUTOMATIC CALCULATION WITH MULTIPLE EDITABLE FIELDS - A simplified transaction data management system using automatic calculation with multiple editable fields is provided. The system enables a user to manage transactions with a simplified interface, with multiple editable fields and automatic calculation of other fields based on mathematical relations with inputs that are received in any of the other editable fields. For example, either net amounts subject to a tax or gross amounts including the tax may be entered for a transaction, and the other value is automatically computed and displayed. Either value may subsequently be re-entered, and the other value may again automatically be computed and displayed, replacing the earlier input and output. | 04-10-2014 |
20140108213 | METHOD, SYSTEM, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM FOR PREDICTING TAX LIABILITIES AND BENEFITS - A method, a system, and a computer program for predicting an impact of a tax event on a user's tax liabilities at any intermediate time during a current tax year based on a comparison of known and predicted user information related to the user and the user's taxes, tax event information, and a tax deduction database of tax deductions, credits, and eligibility rules. The computer program and method for predicting the impact of the tax event comprise acquiring information about the user from a user profile, acquiring information about the tax event, comparing the user information and the tax event information with requirements for tax deductions and credits offered by a taxing authority, and identifying deductions or credits having requirements related to the user information and the tax event information. | 04-17-2014 |
20140114822 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CREATING TAX CONFIGURATION TEMPLATES - Individuals implementing/using a financial management system are provided the capability to share their customized and regionally optimized tax configurations with other individuals utilizing the financial management system. The customized and regionally optimized tax configurations are provided to other individuals in the form of tax configuration templates optimized and identified for a given region and/or type of business within the identified region. In various embodiments, the tax configuration templates for a given region can then be viewed, selected, and adopted by other individuals using the financial management system. | 04-24-2014 |
20140114823 | DETERMINING LOCAL REGULATORY FILING WORKFLOW THROUGH USER CONTRIBUTION - A method to generate a regulatory filing workflow for a geographical region. The method includes displaying a regulatory filing form to a user in the geographical region, displaying a user attribute list identifying user attributes from the BMAs used by the user, receiving, from the user and in response to displaying the regulatory filing form and the user attribute list, a user input that specifies a rule for determining input data of the regulatory filing form based at least on user attributes, and generating, based at least on the user input, regulatory filing report metadata including a specification for generating a regulatory filing report by completing the regulatory filing form based at least on the rule, where the regulatory filing workflow includes generating and filing the regulatory filing report to satisfy the regulatory requirement specific to the geographical region. | 04-24-2014 |
20140149268 | AUTOMATED SALES TAX PAYMENT SYSTEM - Described are technologies relating to transaction processing. In general, one aspect of the subject matter described herein can be embodied in methods that include the actions of calculating, in relation to a transaction, one or more tax amounts associated with a price of the transaction, obtaining, in relation to a payment source, an approval for at least the price of the transaction and the one or more tax amounts, thereby defining an approved sales transaction, and, subsequent to obtaining the approval, (a) settling at least a revenue portion of one or more approved sales transactions in favor of a first account, and (b) settling the one or more tax amounts in favor of a second account that is different than the first account. | 05-29-2014 |
20140172656 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ACQUIRING TAX DATA FOR USE IN TAX PREPARATION SOFTWARE - An automated system and method for acquiring tax data and importing it into tax preparation software. Tax documents are acquired electronically in a tax data acquisition process by scanning, faxing, or emailing them. Once a tax document is in electronic form, an optical character recognition (OCR) software process obtains tax data from the electronic tax document. Each piece of tax data that is obtained from the OCR software process is then imported into tax preparation software. Once the tax data has been imported into tax preparation software, the software may be used to complete a tax return. An important step in the tax return preparation process is automated so the need for tax professionals to spend time entering tax data into tax preparation software is reduced and data entry errors are reduced. Tax professionals may devote more time to preparing tax returns and less time to data entry. | 06-19-2014 |
20140180883 | SYSTEM, METHOD AND ARTICLE OF MANUFACTURE FOR PROVIDING TAX SERVICES IN A NETWORK-BASED TAX ARCHITECTURE - A system, method and article of manufacture are provided for affording network-based tax services. First, a request is received from a user to access a tax service server utilizing a network. Next, a user is allowed access to the tax service server utilizing the network after a validation process. An identity of the user is then determined based on the request and/or the validation process. Thereafter, a plurality of forms with fields are displayed utilizing the network. At least a portion of the fields are filled based on the identity of the user. Additional data is subsequently received from the user for filling the fields utilizing the network. Further, a tax amount is calculated based on the received data and business rules. Further, the tax amount is displayed utilizing the network. | 06-26-2014 |
20140195392 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS USING A BUSINESS OBJECT LIFECYCLE FOR MANAGEMENT OF BUSINESS RECORDS MAINTENANCE - Systems, methods, and other embodiments associated with using a business object lifecycle for management of business records are described. In one embodiment, a method includes defining a lifecycle for a customer tax role record having a plurality of possible lifecycle states. Subsequent to defining the lifecycle, the method monitors a plurality of customer tax role records that have an active state, and for a monitored record, determines if an expiration date has expired. If the expiration date has not expired, then a new tax obligation is generated for a customer associated with the monitored record. If the expiration date has expired, the state of the lifecycle state of the monitored record is changed to an expired state such that the new tax obligation is not generated. The method then repeats the monitoring for a next active record from the plurality of customer tax role records. | 07-10-2014 |
20140195393 | Tax Data Management and Reporting System - A system and method to manage, report and collect property tax information and data in real time, which may provide a means to transmit and communicate information from a plurality of tax information sources to a plurality of tax information targets. | 07-10-2014 |
20140201045 | DETERMINING LOCAL TAX STRUCTURES IN AN ACCOUNTING APPLICATION THROUGH USER CONTRIBUTION - A method to generate a suggested tax structure in a software application for a geographical region. The method includes obtaining tax structures generated by users according to a tax jurisdiction requirement of the geographical region, where each tax structure includes a tax rate used by the users to configure instantiations of the software application to perform a task, generating a statistical measure of the users and a number of times the task is performed by the users, generating, in response to the statistical measure exceeding a threshold, a suggested tax structure to represent a portion of the tax structures that is qualified based on the statistical measure, and presenting, in response to determining that a new user of the software application is within the geographical region, the suggested tax structure to the new user. | 07-17-2014 |
20140207633 | SYSTEM FOR TRANSACTIONAL PREDICTION AND ESTIMATION - A system for transactional prediction and estimation is presented. The system can include at least one server computer communicatively coupled to a network. The at least one server computer is configured to assemble at least one of transactional data and financial data acquired from at least one online transaction partner of a transaction source, and generate a predicted regulatory reporting obligation based on the at least one of transactional data and financial data. Upon determining the predicted regulatory reporting obligation includes a regulatory reporting about the transaction source by the at least one online transaction partner, the at least one server computer is configured to generate a report of estimated financial reporting data including potential expenses incurred by the transaction source. | 07-24-2014 |
20140207634 | REFUND PURCHASE SYSTEM - A system provides a software program that receives tax return information with an anticipated tax refund and taxpayer demographic information and automatically generates optional sell offers with corresponding discounted purchase prices. The sell offers and purchase prices are calculated for a portion of the refund at different levels (high, medium, low), and the system generates the documents that the taxpayer electronically signs to authenticate the offers. The system has a server which evaluates the offers for purchase based on several risk factors and either can select any of the offer levels that satisfy the purchaser's risk requirements. If none of the offer levels satisfy the risk requirements, the server reports back that the offers are rejected. For a selected offer, the system authorizes a payment of the discounted purchase price to the taxpayer when the taxing authority approves the return, before the taxing authority processes the refund for payment. | 07-24-2014 |
20140214636 | REMOTE TAX RETURN SYSTEM - The invention provides a business method for remote preparation of tax return services comprising of: (a) establishing a secure website offering tax return preparation services (b) registering the customer for said service via a service channel (c) collecting basic customer information including income, deduction and preference of service channel (d) classification of customer based on predetermined criteria (e) billing the customer as per customer classification (f) request for authorization and predetermined information from the customer (g) receipt of predetermined information from the customer (h) storage of customer data into the remote database (i) preparation of tax return by a first professional tax preparer (j) review by a second professional tax preparer (k) transmitting the prepared tax return to the customer for acceptance, optionally (l) filing of the prepared tax return upon receipt of customer acceptance (m) providing notification and a copy of filed return to the customer. | 07-31-2014 |
20140214637 | DETERMINING LOCAL CALCULATION CONFIGURATIONS IN AN ACCOUNTING APPLICATION THROUGH USER CONTRIBUTION - A method to generate a suggested calculation configuration in a software application for a geographical region. The method includes calculation configurations generated by users according to a regulatory requirement of the geographical region, generating a statistical measure of the users and a number of times a task is performed by the users using the calculation configurations, generating, in response to the statistical measure exceeding a threshold, a suggested calculation configuration to represent the calculation configurations, and presenting, in response to at least determining that a new user of the software application is within the geographical region, the suggested calculation configuration to the new user, where the suggested calculation configuration is used by the new user to configure a new instantiation of the software application for performing the task within the geographical region. | 07-31-2014 |
20140214638 | Funds Collection Tools and Techniques - Tax collection tools and techniques automatically and electronically separate tax amounts from other funds in a commercial transaction, and divert the collected tax into a holding fund. The holding fund bears income, at little or no risk. Funds collected are tracked, as are their payment due dates, and tax payments are made automatically from the holding fund to tax authorities in a timely manner on behalf of merchants. Income from the holding fund may be distributed among various parties. Collection of debt, whether taxes or otherwise, through automatic incremental billing is also described. | 07-31-2014 |
20140214639 | INTERMEDIATION SERVER FOR CROSS-JURISDICTIONAL INTERNET ENFORCEMENT - A system, method and apparatus for cross jurisdictional internet enforcement are provided. An intermediation server receives data indicative of on-line communications between at least one communication device and at least one on-line sales presence, determines that the data indicative of the on-line communications is associated with legal data associated with the on-line sales Cpresence and when the legal data meets a given criteria, triggers remedial legal action. | 07-31-2014 |
20140244455 | PRESENTATION OF IMAGE OF SOURCE OF TAX DATA THROUGH TAX PREPARATION APPLICATION - Methods, systems and articles of manufacture for generating interface elements of an electronic tax preparation application to allow a taxpayer or user to view a portion of an image of a tax document that is a source of data for a field of a screen generated by the electronic tax application. The image portion displayed may be a particular box or field of a tax document for a corresponding particular field of the screen generated by the electronic tax preparation or a bounding region including one or more adjacent or surrounding boxes or fields. Embodiments allow taxpayers to view an image of a source document while viewing the data that was entered in the field from within the tax preparation application without having to consult paper copies of the tax documents. | 08-28-2014 |
20140244456 | TAX DOCUMENT IMAGING AND PROCESSING - Methods, systems and articles of manufacture for allowing taxpayers to utilize mobile communication or communication devices such as smartphones and tablet devices to upload tax document images and process tax document images such that resulting recognized tax data is incorporated into an electronic tax return. Authentication data is generated and provided to the taxpayer to establishing a connection with an image processor, which provides recognized tax data to the on-line tax preparation application for incorporation into the electronic tax return. Authentication data may be embodied within a URL address to the image processor that is transmitted as a SMS message to the mobile communication or computing device or encoded within a QR code such that the mobile communication or computing device can be used to take an image of and decode the QR code to determine the URL address and authentication data to establish a connection with the image processor. | 08-28-2014 |
20140244457 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR GENERATING OUTPUTS IN RESPONSE TO EXAMINATION OF RECORDS - Systems and methods for generating an electronic output in response to an examination of a customer's records are shown and described. In one embodiment, a system includes a tax analysis system (TAS) server including a retriever code segment (RCS), a transformer code segment, an analysis engine code segment (AECS), and an output code segment. In another embodiment, a method includes extracting customer tax records; transforming the extracted tax records to create a transformed tax record (TTRec); and analyzing TTRec using an analysis engine code segment (AECS). This method may also include generating an output based on AECS analysis. | 08-28-2014 |
20140244458 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PREDICTION OF VALUE ADDED TAX RECLAIM SUCCESS - A method and system for predicting a likelihood of success of a potential value-added tax (VAT) reclaim are provided. The method includes receiving at least one VAT receipt; analyzing the at least one VAT receipt; retrieving information respective of likelihood of success respective of the VAT receipt analysis; and determining the likelihood of success of the potential VAT reclaim. | 08-28-2014 |
20140249973 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF REVENUE CREATION AND ECONOMIC STIMULATION THAT PRESERVES A PROGRESSIVE TAX STRUCTURE AND UTILIZES INCENTIVES AND PENALTIES TO FORM THE BASIS OF TAXATION - A system and method of revenue creation and economic stimulation that preserves a progressive tax structure and utilizes incentives and penalties to form the basis of taxation. One goal is to alter the saving and spending patterns of people in a manner beneficial to the economy, the individual, the government, and possibly targeted industries requiring remedial action or stimulation. Thus a predicted result is that economic productivity will increase employment, savings, and spending generation. | 09-04-2014 |
20140258056 | Method of Automatic Tax Transaction - A Method of transaction for payment of taxes electronically and interfacing between the sellers of goods and services and a fund depository account is introduced to ease the burden of manual check writing or manual payment transfer of taxes by a seller from a purchaser of good or service, the process is includes on time management of funds and easy and automated process of making all tax payment by using the current tax and banking infer structure, without spending extra time and effort to figure out the tax collected and tax returned manually | 09-11-2014 |
20140279317 | WAGERING ACCOUNTING AND REPORTING - A computer gaming system receives a specification of rules for revenue recognition, reporting, or allocation of proceeds of gaming activities among a plurality of entities having claims to proceeds in conjunction with bettors of the gaming activity. The specification may have a form that can be specified and/or amended by a human being to describe and reflect changes in inter-jurisdiction tax treaties or compacts, or agreements among commercial operators. During or at conclusion of gaming activities by players through the gaming system, amounts of revenue, tax payable, or tax withholding, relating to the gaming activities are computed from the specification, for a plurality of horizontally-related tax jurisdictions, players and operators of the gaming activity having taxable contacts with the horizontally-related tax jurisdictions. The computation may reflect a tax compact or treaty among the horizontally-related jurisdictions to specify interjurisdictional treatment of the revenue, tax payable, or withholding. Proceeds of the gaming activities of the players are reported and/or allocated to operators and/or jurisdictions as specified by the computation. | 09-18-2014 |
20140297490 | W-9 EXCHANGE SYSTEM AND METHOD - A system and method is presented for sharing tax-related information. A repository is provided for storing tax-related information corresponding to a taxpayer identification number. A user access may gain access to the repository based on a pre-determined criterion and, upon the user accessing the repository, the user is permitted to at least one of add tax-related information corresponding to taxpayer identification number to the repository, access the tax-related information stored in the repository, or change the tax-related information stored in the repository. | 10-02-2014 |
20140316955 | Method for Automatic Testing of Tax Software - Configurations of client specific taxable transactions are validated by inputting client initial transaction data to a test deck generating program which is executed to generate a client tax configuration test deck comprising the initial transaction data, assumed transaction data, and expected taxability of the initial transaction data and assumed transaction data. A tax determination program is executed using data from the client tax configuration test deck to generate simulated tax calculations. The simulated tax calculations are input to a configuration validation program to compare the simulated tax calculations with the expected taxability of the transaction data to identify defects. A report is generated identifying any defects. | 10-23-2014 |
20140324648 | VIDEO-VOICE PREPARATION OF ELECTRONIC TAX RETURN - Methods, systems and computer program products for processing video of tax documents and associated verbal input provided by a user and populating at least a portion of an electronic tax return with processing results. | 10-30-2014 |
20140337189 | Streamlined Sales Tax Return Preparation - A tool for assisting end-users to comply with complex sales tax compliance requirements by electronically preparing a tax return by dynamically creating and providing to each end-user a first data input page having input fields relating only to types and categories of tax for which each end-user's line of business is required to report while suppressing presentation to the end-user data fields which are related to tax types which are not required to be reported or collected for the end-user's line of business. Using the streamlined input page, the end-user only provides the relevant data values and avoids seeing or worrying about irrelevant input values. The tool then electronically prepares one or more tax return forms or data files, and optionally submits those to an electronic server corresponding to the tax authority for the appropriate jurisdiction(s) or produces a paper return. | 11-13-2014 |
20140351105 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR TAX FILING, DATA PROCESSING, DATA VERIFICATION AND RECONCILIATION - A system and method for processing transaction and use tax data, verifying tax calculations/determinations, reconciling calculation/determination errors, and filing and/or paying taxes owed to the appropriate jurisdictions is provided. | 11-27-2014 |
20140358747 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DELIVERING AND ACCESSING FILES - A method and system for delivering and accessing files. The method and system may include the generation of a file for a first party by a second party. The file may be encoded in a machine readable format and may be may have its availability made known to the first party. The first party may then provide a payment to the second party via the web portal that allows them access to the document. | 12-04-2014 |
20140372264 | CONTEMPORANEOUS TRANSACTION AUTHORIZATION AND TAX DEDUCTIBILITY IDENTIFICATION - A request to authorize a financial transaction for a customer of a financial institution may be received from a point of sale device. The request may include transaction information indicating a merchant associated with the point of sale device and/or a nature of one or more goods or services associated with the financial transaction. An account of the financial institution associated with the customer of the financial institution may be identified. The financial transaction may be authorized. Contemporaneous to authorizing the financial transaction, a determination may be made that at least a portion of the financial transaction may qualify as a tax deductible expense for the customer of the financial institution. The determination may be based on the transaction information indicating the merchant associated with the point of sale device and/or the nature of one or more goods or services associated with the financial transaction. | 12-18-2014 |
20150032584 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR COLLECTING FEES FROM A MERCHANT AND REMITTING THE FEES TO AN ADMINISTRATIVE AGENCY - The present disclosure provides systems, processes, and methods for the remittance of sales tax to a government entity on behalf of a first entity, such as a merchant, for a remote purchase of a product made by a second entity, such as a buyer. The merchant may be in electronic communication with the buyer to receive the order from the buyer. An item distributor may be in electronic communication with the merchant and may receive data over a network associated with the purchase transaction. The distributor may receive the item from the merchant to be delivered to a shipping address provided by the buyer. The item distributor may receive the sales tax from the merchant for remittance to the government entity and may remit the sales tax to the government entity, along with the necessary associated data and/or documentation, on behalf of the merchant. The sales tax, along with the associated data and documentation may be submitted electronically over a network to a government system configured to receive such sales tax and data. | 01-29-2015 |
20150046304 | ANALYSIS OF E-RECEIPTS FOR CHARITABLE DONATIONS - Embodiments of the invention are directed to apparatus, methods, and computer program products for analyzing transaction item-identifying data, such as e-receipts, for the purpose of identifying which transactions or items in a transaction qualify as charitable contributions and in some embodiments verifying or confirming that the transaction or items in the transaction are charitable contributions for the purpose of tax deductions. Additionally, the invention may determine the items and/or portion of the overall or item purchase amount that qualifies as a charitable contribution for tax deductions purposes. In addition, the invention provides for automatically communicating verified charitable contribution information to a third party or database that will insure that the charitable contribution receives consideration when the customer's income tax filings are prepared. | 02-12-2015 |
20150046305 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CAPTURING SALES TAX DEDUCTION INFORMATION FROM MONETARY CARD TRANSACTIONS - Systems and methods are provided for managing sales tax information. The information may be generated, for example, in connection with transactions involving financial accounts, such as a credit card account. The sales tax information may be received electronically from, for example, a merchant or a point of sale device. A determination may be made whether there is any missing sales tax information. If there is missing information a request may be generated and sent to a source having the information. The source may receive the request, retrieve the desired information, and transmit it to the requesting entity. The sales tax information may be stored and later retrieved for presentation to a user, such as the account holder. The account holder may use the information in completing a tax return. | 02-12-2015 |
20150052033 | METHOD, SYSTEM, SERVICE, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR VERIFICATION AND DELIVERY OF INCOME TAX RETURN INFORMATION - A technique of income verification for making a lending decision is disclosed that does not require requesting tax transcripts from the Internal Revenue Service and performing a manual comparison of the tax transcripts to tax returns provided by the borrower. The borrower provides authentication information (e.g., login credentials), which a verification service utilizes to obtain the borrower's tax information from an E-file tax preparation provider. An optional checking process can be used to check that the tax return has not been amended. The verification service delivers verified income data and tax returns to the lender, which can be provided securely in a tamper proof form. Techniques to provide privacy protection for the borrower may include a privacy protection protocol. Additionally, a certificate of authenticity may be provided to the lender. | 02-19-2015 |
20150058187 | Mileage Tax Estimation Using Payment Network Data - A method and system of determining a vehicle mileage tax associated with a consumer includes retrieving data associated with a plurality of transactions associated with a payment account of a consumer, the data including a merchant identifier, a location, and a date and time associated with each of the plurality of transactions. A total mileage traveled by a vehicle associated with the consumer is estimated based on the location, and the date and time associated with the plurality of transactions. A vehicle mileage tax is calculated based on the total mileage estimated for the vehicle associated with the consumer. Additional geotemporal information is provided by mobile devices linked to the payment account and is used to adjust the vehicle mileage estimated from payment transaction geotemporal data. | 02-26-2015 |
20150058188 | Calculating Estimated Tax Payments - Computing devices described herein are configured to determine income information associated with one or more entities and tax information for one or more jurisdictions associated with the one or more entities. The computing devices are further configured to calculate one or more estimated tax payments based at least in part on the income information and the tax information. | 02-26-2015 |
20150058189 | RAPID TAX COLLECTION SYSTEM AND METHOD - Preferred examples of a system and method for rapid collection and distribution of taxes are disclosed. The disclosed embodiments of the present invention provide a system and a method for point-of-sale collection and distribution of sales taxes on a frequent, regular basis, such as daily or weekly or other periodic time intervals, that can be used for face-to-face, e-commerce, telephone or other transactions. The disclosed embodiments provide a system and a method for transferring funds from numerous merchants to numerous taxing authorities in an efficient manner, with each merchant seeking to transfer funds to perhaps several taxing authorities and each taxing authority seeking to receive funds from many merchants. According to other examples of the invention, a centralized distribution feature allows the merchants and the taxing authorities to each communicate with a single entity or other in transferring the funds. Therefore, efficient tax collection and distribution may be achieved without overburdening either individual merchants or individual taxing authorities | 02-26-2015 |
20150058190 | RAPID TAX COLLECTION SYSTEM AND METHOD - Preferred examples of a system and method for rapid collection and distribution of taxes are disclosed. The disclosed embodiments of the present invention provide a system and a method for point-of-sale collection and distribution of sales taxes on a frequent, regular basis, such as daily or weekly or other periodic time intervals, that can be used for face-to-face, e-commerce, telephone or other transactions. The disclosed embodiments provide a system and a method for transferring funds from numerous merchants to numerous taxing authorities in an efficient manner, with each merchant seeking to transfer funds to perhaps several taxing authorities and each taxing authority seeking to receive funds from many merchants. According to other examples of the invention, a centralized distribution feature allows the merchants and the taxing authorities to each communicate with a single entity or other in transferring the funds. Therefore, efficient tax collection and distribution may be achieved without overburdening either individual merchants or individual taxing authorities | 02-26-2015 |
20150066715 | Fuel excise tax calculation and filing system and method - In a fuel excise tax calculation and filing system, a method of generating a set of tax schedules based upon a set of user modified compliance rules without modifying the underlying software code. The system includes an interface process module operable to receive external transactional data and generate internal raw data. The system also includes a compliance matrix process operable to receive the internal raw data and a set of compliance rules maintained by the end user and generates compliant tax schedules for filing. The system also includes a graphical user interface for viewing and modifying the respective databases utilized in the system. The system also contains a form calculation process operable to generate compliant tax schedules. The disclosed method provides a more effective means of updating the fuel excise tax calculation and filing method and system by the end user, without a need to modify underlying software code. | 03-05-2015 |
20150095204 | Processes and Systems for Recovering Refundable Taxes - The present disclosure relates to systems for recovering refundable taxes. The system includes a claims interface processor for an electronic device. The claims interface processor comprises; a tax refund application for allowing a user/cardholder to apply for a tax refund based on prior product purchases; a communication module arranged to send the tax refund application to a tax refund processor and receive a tax refund approval or rejection, the tax refund approval or rejection based on a risk score relating to the tax refund application; wherein the communication module is also arranged to send a tax refund instruction to an acquirer in response to receiving the tax refund approval. | 04-02-2015 |
20150095205 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR EXTRACTION AND ACTIONABLE ANALYSIS OF DIGITAL RECEIPTS AND TRANSACTION LOGS - Embodiments of the invention provide a sales and use tax analysis and reconciling system that includes an item and ontology restriction interface, an item and ontology restriction engine, a sales and use tax application program interface, a sales and use tax engine, a sales and use tax accounting engine, and an item and ontology restriction engine. The item and ontology restriction interface can receive point of sale transaction data and process a transaction message, and the item and ontology restriction engine can transmit the transaction message to an item and ontology restriction analysis engine for analysis. The sales and use tax application program can transmit totaled transaction data. From this data, a sales and use tax engine can create fund split and electronic fund transfer instructions for an acquirer gateway, and the sales and use tax can be reconciled and sent to a funding source. | 04-02-2015 |
20150106247 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PURSUING A VALUE-ADDED TAX (VAT) RECLAIM THROUGH A MOBILE TECHNOLOGY PLATFORM - A method and systems for pursuing a potential value-added tax (VAT) reclaim through a mobile device. The method comprises receiving at least one image of a VAT receipt from the mobile device; identifying a geographic location of the mobile device; determining whether the mobile device is or was in a foreign country at the time the image was produced; analyzing, by an optical character recognition processor, the at least one image of the VAT receipt; determining whether the VAT receipt is eligible for a VAT refund based on at least one VAT reclaim rule, wherein the at least one VAT reclaim rule determines eligibility based on at least a country of residence of a user of the mobile device, the geographic location of the mobile device, and the analysis of the at least one image; and upon determining that the VAT receipt is eligible for the VAT refund, generating a reclaim request. | 04-16-2015 |
20150142624 | ADVANCE NOTICE AND ANALYSIS OF NOTICE DOCUMENTS FROM A TAXING AUTHORITY - A system and computerized method for receiving and analyzing a notice document from a taxing authority. A notice form data store has a plurality of notice forms associated therewith, each associated with at least one category. A taxpayer file data store has a plurality of taxpayer files associated therewith. An advance notice engine acquires the notice document associated with the taxpayer; analyzes the notice document by comparing the notice document to the notice forms associated with the notice form data store; analyzes the notice document by comparing the notice document to the taxpayer files associated with the taxpayer file data store; calculates a severity level and at least one category associated; and generates a notice information set based upon the severity level, the at least one category, and the notice document. | 05-21-2015 |
20150149334 | Transfer Pricing Systems and Methods - A method includes identifying a plurality of functions performed by at least one of a sales division of an entity, a manufacturing division of the entity, or a supplier division of the entity during an intra-entity transaction by the at least one division. The method also includes determining, for each function of the plurality of functions, an allocation relationship based on an operating parameter of the at least one division, and determining, for each function, an intra-entity sales expense using the respective allocation relationship associated with each function. The method further includes providing, to the entity, an indication of net income and target earnings for the at least one division. The net income is provided for each function, and is determined based on the respective intra-entity sales expense associated with each function. | 05-28-2015 |
20150294425 | METHODS, SYSTEMS, AND TOOLS FOR PROVIDING TAX RELATED SERVICES FOR VIRTUAL CURRENCY HOLDINGS - Technology is directed to tools for providing tax related services for virtual currency holdings, e.g., bitcoin holdings. The tax related services can include computation of taxes such as income tax, sales tax, and payroll tax for virtual currency holdings. The services can also include facilitating filing of the taxes with the concerned department. The tool can include a computing device configured to execute a tax application for computing the taxes on virtual currency holdings. The user provides information on a source of virtual currency transactions, e.g., an address of a bitcoin wallet, to the tax application, and the tax application retrieves the transactions from the source. The tax application categorizes the transactions into various transaction types and identifies the taxable and/or non-taxable transactions. The gain/loss and the associated tax are computed for the taxable transactions using one or more cost-basis methods. | 10-15-2015 |
20150302433 | Automatic Generation of Custom Intervals - Systems and methods for linear regression using safe screening techniques. A computing system may receive a plurality of time series that includes one or more demand characteristics and a demand pattern or an item. The computing system may determine a number of low-demand period within the time series. The computing system may determine a series type for the time series based on the low-demand periods. An in-season interval of the time series may be determined based on the number of low-demand periods and the series type. A future in-season interval of the time series may be derived based on the in-season interval. | 10-22-2015 |
20150317746 | Vehicle Fee-Tax Management System - A fee-tax manager which provides a fee-tax administrator module which provides a hierarchical structure of a plurality of fee-tax modules which function to couple one or a plurality of fee-tax identifiers to each one of a plurality of fee-taxes of a plurality of fee-tax entities for retrievable storage by matched correspondence with fee-tax retrieval elements which comprise part of a fee-tax inquiry generated by the functionalities of a plurality of fee-tax retrieval modules of a fee-tax user module of the fee-tax manager application program. | 11-05-2015 |
20150363892 | SYSTEMS METHODS AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCTS FOR ENCODING AND DECODING TAX RETURN DATA - Tax data, e.g., Form W2 data, is encoded as a two-dimensional machine readable representation, such as a QR CODE. Certain tax data is encoded as segments of a QR CODE, and a tax form generated by an employer or payroll processing service and provided to an employee or user includes the QR CODE representing certain W-2 or other tax data. An image of the QR CODE is acquired using a camera of a mobile communication device or computer or other image capture device. When using a Smartphone, a tax preparation application executing on the Smartphone decodes the QR CODE image to determine the tax data, and populates fields of an electronic tax return with decoded data, thus allowing a consumer to prepare an electronic tax return using a mobile communication device. | 12-17-2015 |
20150363893 | WEB-BASED SYSTEM AND METHODS THEREOF FOR VALUE-ADDED TAX RECLAIM PROCESSING - A computerized method and server for authenticating and determining eligibility of a potential value-added tax (VAT) refund. The method comprises receiving a potential VAT receipt; recognizing by a server appropriate receipt parameters respective of the potential VAT receipt; determining based on the appropriate receipt parameters whether the potential VAT receipt is authentic; and determining based on the appropriate receipt parameters whether a payer is eligible for the potential VAT refund. The server comprises a processor communicatively coupled to a network; and, a memory coupled to the processor, containing a plurality of instructions that, when executed by the processor, configure the server to: receive a potential VAT receipt; recognize appropriate receipt parameters respective of the potential VAT receipt; determine based on the appropriate receipt parameters whether the potential VAT receipt is authentic; and determine based on the appropriate receipt parameters whether a payer is eligible for the potential VAT refund. | 12-17-2015 |
20150363894 | SYSTEM AND METHODS THEREOF FOR CONSUMER PURCHASE IDENTIFICATION FOR VALUE-ADDED TAX (VAT) RECLAIM - A computer implemented method and system for value added tax (VAT) reclaim processing. The method comprising receiving at least one VAT receipt from a user node; determining whether the VAT receipt is an authentic VAT receipt; determining whether the VAT receipt is eligible for a refund; and submitting the VAT receipt to a refund agency node (RAN). The system comprises a processing unit; and a memory coupled to the processing unit, the memory contains instructions that when executed by the processing unit configures the system to: receive at least one VAT receipt from a user node; determine whether the VAT receipt is an authentic VAT receipt; determine whether the VAT receipt is eligible for a refund; and submit the VAT receipt to a refund agency node (RAN). | 12-17-2015 |
20150379655 | Fraud tracking network - A tax fraud finder network is provided with a device for calculating a score based on information provided to government agencies by using multiple collections of information. An HEV algorithm uses mismatches in different sets of collections to arrive at a display and edit score. A report is generated and sent to local government agencies to find violations. | 12-31-2015 |
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20160027126 | MANAGED BANK ACCOUNT SYSTEM FOR USE IN RECONCILIATION SERVICES - A managed bank account system that receives payroll tax files from a payroll provider system is described. The payroll tax files include payroll tax transaction and tax funding data for a plurality of employers and tax authorities. The system also receives transaction feedback data, where the transaction feedback data provides completion and error information on payroll tax clearing house transactions and check transactions between the plurality of payroll providers/employers and at least one tax authority. The check transactions are based on accounts controlled by the managed bank account system. The system creates a ledger for each employer using the transaction data from the payroll tax files and generates a reconciliation report by matching transaction feedback data with each employer and comparing transaction feedback data with the ledgers of an employer. The system provides the reconciliation report to the payroll provider system based on both the clearing house and check transactions. | 01-28-2016 |
20160027127 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR INFERRING TAXPAYER LOCATION FROM TRANSACTION DATA - A computer-implemented method for inferring a taxpayer location from transaction data is implemented by a computing device coupled to a memory. The method includes receiving, by the computing device, a travel report request message including a payment card identifier associated with a taxpayer and a report date, retrieving, by the computing device, transaction data for a payment card associated with the payment card identifier and the report date, the transaction data including merchant location data associated with a merchant zip code, inferring a location of the taxpayer using the merchant location and the report date, comparing the inferred location with a plurality of tax zones stored in the memory to determine a specific tax zone of the plurality of tax zones associated with the inferred location of the taxpayer, and providing a travel report to the taxpayer, wherein the travel report includes the inferred location for the report date and the tax zone associated with the inferred location. | 01-28-2016 |
20160034987 | System and method for timekeeping entry and work in progress reports - The present invention consists of an Improved Time Entry and Recording System and Method, which greatly enhances the features and abilities of such systems in the marketplace. Most notably, it allows the user thereof to create and generate and edit Work in Progress Reports, which may greatly optimize the profitability of any professional firm, and in particular a law firm, by keeping close tabs on all billing entities. In particular, the user may run and directly edit WIP reports and all data found therein in real time. Automatic flagging and comments on every field are provided, as well as user created and defined billing fields. | 02-04-2016 |
20160042466 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR TAX COLLECTION, ANALYSIS AND COMPLIANCE - A tax matching and identification system are disclosed. The system may receive tax information from one or more sources, combine all or some of the information into a single form, and apply various software processes to calculate a weighted average. The average is then compared to a threshold to determine whether a person or entity is in tax compliance. | 02-11-2016 |
20160063643 | COMPUTER PROGRAM, METHOD, AND SYSTEM FOR DETERMINING A TAXPAYER'S INCOME TAX WITHHOLDINGS BASED ON A SPECIFIED GOAL OF THE TAXPAYER - A method, a system, and a computer program for enabling a taxpayer to achieve a specified goal realized by the taxpayer's income tax withholdings by providing a suggested income tax withholdings so that the taxpayer can satisfy their tax liability while knowing how much they will owe or receive back from a taxing authority. The specified goal may be a monetary value, a percentage, or a sliding scale. In embodiments of the invention, the suggested income tax withholdings includes a monetary amount and instructs the taxpayer on how to populate an income tax form to achieve the specified goal. Further embodiments use known tax information to predict the taxpayer's tax liability for a tax period. | 03-03-2016 |
20160063644 | COMPUTER PROGRAM, METHOD, AND SYSTEM FOR DETECTING FRAUDULENTLY FILED TAX RETURNS - Embodiments of the invention detect fraudulently filed tax returns when a subject taxpayer submits a subject tax return for filing with a taxing authority. Embodiments analyze tax information associated with the subject tax return and compare the information against tax information of previously filed tax returns for a plurality of taxpayers. These embodiments search for confidence indicators among the tax returns indicative or suggestive of at least one fraudulent tax return. These confidence indicators are then analyzed to determine if the subject tax return for the subject taxpayer, any of the previously filed tax returns, or some combination thereof, is a fraudulent tax return. | 03-03-2016 |
20160063645 | COMPUTER PROGRAM, METHOD, AND SYSTEM FOR DETECTING FRAUDULENTLY FILED TAX RETURNS - Embodiments of the invention detect fraudulently filed tax returns when a user prepares or submits a subject tax return that relates to a subject taxpayer for filing with a government taxing authority. Embodiments analyze tax information of various sources to determine whether the subject tax return is genuine (i.e., not fraudulent). The invention determines confidence indicators based upon some or all of a source location, a source type, data entry characteristics, refund vehicle characteristics, internal consistencies, external historical consistencies, external lateral consistencies, user authentication methods, and a taxpayer risk level. Based upon these analyses the invention calculates a taxpayer identity confidence score, which may be utilized to allow or deny the filing of the subject tax return. | 03-03-2016 |
20160078567 | METHODS SYSTEMS AND ARTICLES OF MANUFACTURE FOR USING A PREDICTIVE MODEL TO DETERMINE TAX TOPICS WHICH ARE RELEVANT TO A TAXPAYER IN PREPARING AN ELECTRONIC TAX RETURN - Methods, systems and articles of manufacture for using one or more predictive models to predict which tax matters are relevant to a particular taxpayer during preparation of an electronic tax return. A tax return preparation system accesses taxpayer data such as personal data and/or tax data regarding the particular taxpayer. The system executes a predictive model which receives the taxpayer data as inputs to the predictive model. The predictive model generates as output(s) one or more predicted tax matters which are determined to be likely to be relevant to the taxpayer. The system may then determine tax questions to present to the user based at least in part upon the predicted tax matters determined by the predictive model. | 03-17-2016 |
20160092993 | COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM, SYSTEM, AND METHOD OF PROVIDING A VIRTUAL VENUE FOR THE TRANSFER OF TAXPAYER-SPECIFIC INFORMATION - A computer program, a system, and a method facilitate transactions of taxpayer-specific items of information between taxpayers and third parties in a virtual venue. A set of taxpayer information related, at least in part, to a filed tax return of the taxpayer is received. The set of taxpayer information is filtered to obtain a marketable information set, which in turn includes taxpayer-specific items. A third-party value is obtained for each taxpayer-specific item, and the taxpayer is presented a sale value for each taxpayer-specific item. The taxpayer is presented an option to select at least one taxpayer-specific item to be sold in the virtual venue and an option for the taxpayer to select at least one third party to which to sell said at least one taxpayer-specific item. Upon the selection of the options by the taxpayer, the transaction is then processed and completed. | 03-31-2016 |
20160092994 | COMPUTER PROGRAM, METHOD, AND SYSTEM FOR DETERMINING HOW A TAX EVENT AFFECTS A TAXPAYER'S TAX REFUND OR TAX OWED - A computer program, a method, and a system for determining an effect a tax event has on a taxpayer's tax refund amount or tax owed amount (refund/owe amount). During a tax interview for preparation of a tax return using tax preparation software, tax event information related to the taxpayer's liability is inputted. The refund/owe amount is displayed via a refund/owe meter (ROM) on a graphical user interface. After each tax event is inputted or after a ROM generating event, the ROM displays an updated refund/owe amount. Additionally, the effect of the tax event on the displayed amount is presented, including a monetary amount by which a last received tax event affects the displayed amount. The effect is calculated and displayed in real time so as to dynamically change the displayed refund/owe amount in response to the last received tax event information or in response to the ROM generating event. | 03-31-2016 |
20160092995 | ACCOUNTING EXCHANGE AND AUTOMATED SETTLEMENT SYSTEMS AND METHODS - Example embodiments include systems using computer hardware processors receiving user input and a master database storing transaction information. The processor receives transaction information from a buyer or seller and treats the transaction information based on desired formats and/or information in the master database. For example, the processor may transmit the transaction information to a buyer or a seller matching information in the transaction information or add additional information to the transaction information based on matched in the master database. | 03-31-2016 |
20160098804 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR USING INTERCHANGEABLE ANALYTICS MODULES TO PROVIDE TAX RETURN PREPARATION SYSTEMS - A method and system for providing a tax return preparation system with interchangeable analytics modules includes providing one or more interchangeable analytics modules. Each of the interchangeable analytics modules includes one or more analytics algorithms used to select user experience elements to be included in a tax return preparation interview process presented to a user through one or more tax return preparation systems. The one or more interchangeable analytics modules are distinct and independent analytical components provided to the tax return preparation system that can be interchanged, overwritten, and interfaced with individually, and without otherwise changing and/or modifying the tax return preparation system. Consequently, a tax return preparation system can provide a tax return preparation interview process capable of dynamically evolving to meet the specific needs of a given user. | 04-07-2016 |
20160125552 | METHODS, SYSTEMS AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCTS FOR COLLABORATIVE TAX RETURN PREPARATION - A computer-implemented method for collaboratively preparing an electronic tax return includes a host computer receiving a request from a first user for a collaborative tax preparation session through tax preparation software utilized by the first user to prepare an electronic tax return. The method also includes the host computer sending a message through a second network to a second computing device of a second user, inviting the second user to participate in the collaborative tax preparation session with the first user. The method further includes the host computer receiving a reply from the second computing device, including agreement by the second user to participate in the session. Moreover, the method includes the host computer establishing the collaborative tax preparation session. During the collaborative tax preparation session, the host computer receives tax-related information from the second computing device, and sends the received tax-related information to the first computing device. | 05-05-2016 |
20160125553 | SYSTEM OF MANAGING AND ANALYZING IRS ACCOUNT DATA - A system for managing a plurality of IRS-generated tax transcripts is provided. Each tax transcript may be populated with a plurality of tax data from a variety of sources, such as the plurality of tax forms provided to the IRS. The plurality of tax data may comprise a plurality of fixed data fields and a plurality of transaction events. The system may comprise a computer having a user interface; and a program product comprising machine-readable program code for causing, when executed, the computer to perform the following process steps: prompting a user to set at least one parameter for the identification of each tax transcript, wherein each tax transcript may comprise a plurality of fixed data fields and a plurality of transaction events; importing each tax transcript identified by the at least one parameters set by the user; parsing each tax transcript of each fixed data field and each transaction event so that the plurality of fixed data fields and the plurality of transaction events may be mapped to a formatted data template providing a plurality of formatted tax data; sequencing the plurality of formatted transaction events into chronological order; running logic processes and queries against the plurality of formatted tax data; returning a value of each logic processes and queries, resulting in a plurality of logic values; and producing an electronic representation of the plurality of logic values in a desired format. | 05-05-2016 |
20160125554 | SYSTEM OF MANAGING AND ANALYZING IRS ACCOUNT DATA - A system for managing a plurality of IRS-generated tax transcripts is provided. Each tax transcript may be populated with a plurality of tax data from a variety of sources, such as the plurality of tax forms provided to the IRS. The plurality of tax data may comprise a plurality of fixed data fields and a plurality of transaction events. The system may comprise a computer having a user interface; and a program product comprising machine-readable program code for causing, when executed, the computer to perform the following process steps: prompting a user to set at least one parameter for the identification of each tax transcript, wherein each tax transcript may comprise a plurality of fixed data fields and a plurality of transaction events; importing each tax transcript identified by the at least one parameters set by the user; parsing each tax transcript of each fixed data field and each transaction event so that the plurality of fixed data fields and the plurality of transaction events may be mapped to a formatted data template providing a plurality of formatted tax data; sequencing the plurality of formatted transaction events into chronological order; running logic processes and queries against the plurality of formatted tax data; returning a value of each logic processes and queries, resulting in a plurality of logic values; and producing an electronic representation of the plurality of logic values in a desired format. | 05-05-2016 |
20160140668 | SYSTEM TO ASSIST IN TAX COMPLIANCE - The tax compliance tool includes a system, computer program product, and computer-implemented method for receiving at least one document comprising client tax data during an on-boarding process for a financial institution; validating the at least one document by: identifying a schema for the at least one document, and determining that the at least one document includes input in all fields based on the schema; extracting tax data from the at least one document; receiving at least one financial institution record associated with the client, wherein the at least one financial institution record is received from a database; comparing the tax data to the at least one financial institution record to identify inconsistencies; transforming client data based on the comparison of the tax data to the at least one financial institution record; and generating a report comprising the transformed client data. | 05-19-2016 |
20160147761 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ORGANIZED USER EXPERIENCE WORKFLOW - A method for providing user content may obtain multiple fields. The method may generate, by a user content flow driver, a priority field list for an application workflow. The method may sort the fields based on the priority field list to obtain sorted fields. The method may select a next field from the sorted fields to obtain a selected next field. The method may generate content based on the selected next field. The method may transmit, to a user experience player, the generated content. | 05-26-2016 |
20160147828 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR GENERATING DYNAMIC USER EXPERIENCE - A method for providing user content that may receive, from a user device, a request for content. The method may obtain, in response to the request, a field identifier from a multiple of field identifiers according to a priority for a multiple of fields corresponding to the field identifiers. The field identifier may correspond to a field. The method may obtain application content based on the field identifier. The method may generate declarative content from the application content. The declarative content may express the application content in a declarative programming language. The method may transmit, to the user device, the declarative content. | 05-26-2016 |
20160148321 | SIMPLIFIED SCREENING FOR PREDICTING ERRORS IN TAX RETURNS - Embodiments of the invention generally relate to predicting the likelihood of an error in a previously filed tax return. In particular, a set of screening questions is presented to a user that correlate to set of risk factors for an erroneous return. Based on the responses to the screening questions, a likelihood of error and an expected magnitude of error are calculated. Based on the likelihood of error and the expected magnitude of error, an error score and a recommendation of whether to re-prepare and refile an amended tax return is presented. | 05-26-2016 |
20160148322 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR SELECTING INTERCHANGEABLE ANALYTICS MODULES TO PROVIDE CUSTOMIZED TAX RETURN PREPARATION INTERVIEWS - A method and system selects one or more interchangeable analytics modules for use in a tax return preparation system to provide a customized electronic tax return preparation interview to a user, according to one embodiment. The method and system receive user data associated with a user, according to one embodiment. The method and system apply one of a number of selection techniques to determine which of one or more analytics modules to use within the tax return preparation system, according to one embodiment. The method and system apply the one or more analytics modules to the user data to determine the relevance of tax return preparation interview questions to the user, according to one embodiment. The method and system deliver tax return preparation interview questions to the user, based on the determined relevance of the number of tax return preparation interview questions to the user, according to one embodiment. | 05-26-2016 |
20160148323 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CREDITING USERS RESPECTIVE OF A VALUE-ADDED TAX RECLAIM - A system and method for crediting users respective of a VAT reclaim are provided. The method includes receiving a notification of at least a partially successful VAT reclaim respective of a user request for a VAT reclaim; analyzing at least a VAT receipt respective of the at least partially successful VAT reclaim; determining a number of newly accumulated credit points respective of the at least VAT receipt; and adding the number of newly accumulated credit points to a number of previously credit points to yield a new total number of credit points. | 05-26-2016 |
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