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- Electronic Tax Return Filing: Improvements Can Be Made before Mandate Becomes Fully Implemented - GAO-11-344
- Government Accountability Office, March 7, 2011. "The Internal Revenue Service's (IRS) goal is to receive 80 percent of all major types of tax returns electronically by 2012. Legislation passed in November 2009 supports the 80 percent goal for individual income tax returns by requiring tax return preparers who file more than 10 individual returns per year to file them electronically, or e-file. In 2009, IRS electronically processed nearly 95.5 million individual tax returns, or roughly two-thirds of all individual tax returns filed. IRS estimated that it saved $3.10 for each e-filed return that it did not have to process on paper. If the remaining paper returns had been e-filed, IRS could have saved about $148 million in processing costs for 2009 alone. In addition to reducing costs, e-filing provides higher accuracy rates, improved convenience, and faster processing and refunds for taxpayers. Furthermore, IRS officials said that having increased information available electronically could improve the effectiveness of IRS's compliance programs and bring in additional enforcement revenue. Congress asked us to review IRS's implementation of the e-file mandate. In response to this request, this report assesses IRS's initial implementation of the mandate. It also provides our assessment of (1) the expected effect of the mandate on electronic filing rates and (2) early mandate implementation issues that could affect IRS's administrative costs, preparer burden, or rates of electronic filing. We plan to issue a related report this summer that provides additional information on IRS's implementation efforts and its use of electronic data..."
Added: 10 March 2011;
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- Some tax preparers continue to resist the IRS e-filing system
- By Brian Kalish. NextGov, 8 March 2011. "As the Internal Revenue Service pushes taxpayers to file more returns electronically, tax preparers continue to face challenges with the e-filing system, according to a new report from the Government Accountability Office..."
Added: 10 March 2011;
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- Yes, Tax Agencies can benefit from Web 2.0!
- by Crispin Butteriss. Bang the Table, March 10, 2011. "I'm smack in the middle of preparing material for a seminar on Social Media for a group of senior executives from revenue collection agencies around Australia and nearby jurisdictions. As part of my research I've been scouring the web for examples of tax and revenue agencies using web 2.0 tools as part of their operations. Here's a short list of some of my favourites so far. First up is a great video created by a member of the public as part of a Canadian Revenue Agency YouTube competition to promote the loss of revenue due to the cash economy. Any other examples would be greatly appreciated..."
Added: 10 March 2011;
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- System Errors and Lower Than Expected Tax Return Volumes Affected the Implementation of the Modernized e-File System for Individual Tax Return Processing - in pdf format (568kb)
- (This document requires the use of Adobe Acrobat Reader). Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration. September 8, 2010 - Reference Number: 2010-40-111. "The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) is in the process of replacing its existing electronic filing (e-file) platform, referred to as 'the Legacy e-File system,' with a modernized, Internet-based system, the Modernized e-File (MeF) system. The MeF system provides real-time processing of tax returns and extensions that will improve error detection, standardize business rules, and expedite acknowledgments. The MeF system also allows taxpayers to attach documents to their tax returns. WHY TIGTA DID THE AUDIT This audit was initiated because the MeF system aims to increase e-file use through a system that is efficient and easy to access, use, and maintain. The overall objective of this review was to determine whether e-filed individual income tax returns transmitted through the MeF system are processed timely and accurately in a manner consistent with tax returns processed in the Legacy e-File system..."
Added: 30 September 2010;
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- Electronic tax-filing system gets few takers
- Agency received only 8 percent of anticipated volume in Modernized E-filing system, By Alice Lipowicz. Federal Computer Week, September 23, 2010. "The Internal Revenue Service processed less than a tenth of the volume it had expected for its new Modernized e-File system for individual tax returns during the most recent tax season, according to a report released today by the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration..."
Added: 30 September 2010;
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- Australian Tax Office refreshes its e-commerce
- Will turn to new internet and phone, credit card and over the counter payment services, by Tim Lohman. Computerworld, 31 August, 2010. "The Australian Tax Office is to shortly invest heavily in a range of new online, phone, credit card and phone payment services for its customers. The initiative will see the ATO sign three separate contracts lasting up to six years each for over-the-counter bill payment services, telephone and internet bill payment services, and credit card payment services..."
Added: 2 September 2010;
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- More e-Woes for the ATO
- by Michaela Whitbourn. MIS Financial Review, Monday, 16 August 2010. "Taxation Inspector-General Ali Noroozi is investigating delays in the payment of tax returns, which may be linked to the Australian Tax Office's recent and problem-plagued technology overhaul..."
Added: 16 August 2010;
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- Malaysian tax office rolls out app visibility device
- By Diana Jumaat. FutureGov, 2 August 2010. "As part of a push to meet rising demand from tax payers for electronic transactions, the Inland Revenue Board of Malaysia has invested RM4.37 million (US$1.4 million) in solutions that indicate which of the department's business applications are of greatest strategic value..."
Added: 3 August 2010;
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- ATO scales back new computer system, cancels contract
- by Peter Martin. The Age, June 7, 2010. "The Tax Office has scaled back its new $820 million computer system after a bumpy start that delayed one million tax returns, sent out return letters without cheques and failed to communicate with other computers because of a misunderstanding about the meaning of negative numbers..."
Added: 7 June 2010;
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- NY turns $10 million investment into $1 billion in savings
- Automated analysis tools pay big dividends for state tax collectors, By William Jackson. Federal Computer Week, May 12, 2010. "Since implementing an automated compliance and audit tool in 2003, the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance has saved an estimated $1 billion and expects to gather an additional $100 million in taxes during the next three years by using the collection analysis and workflow tool..."
Added: 18 May 2010;
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- Australian Government Response to the Henry Tax Review
- Stronger - Fairer - Simpler: a tax plan for our future. Treasury. The Australian Federal governments response to the Henry Tax Review will implement a Resource Super Profits tax to the profits earned from resources that are owned by all Australians, and use it to: generate more superannuation savings for working families; lower tax for all companies, especially small businesses; and invest in our future infrastructure needs, particularly for mining states...
Added: 4 May 2010;
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- Australia's Future Tax System: Final report: Overview
- Treasury, 2010. "The breadth of this Review, spanning taxes and transfers at all levels of government, has provided a unique opportunity to consider how Australia can best structure its tax and transfer system to anticipate and respond to these challenges and opportunities. Policy settings that support economic growth and structural change will ensure that the living standards of Australians continue to rise and that they can continue to live in a society that supports the needy, is fair, enables social advancement and values the environment. Maintaining strong growth will require increased workforce participation, higher levels of capital per worker and support for entrepreneurial creativity and skill formation..."
Added: 4 May 2010;
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- ATO to face Change Program audit
- By Renai LeMay. ITWire, Monday, 19 April 2010. "The Australian Taxation Office is to face a "thorough" audit of its troubled Change Program strategic IT reform initiative, which has suffered problems in the past few months leading to a backlog in tax refunds being process..."
Added: 19 April 2010;
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- Interim Results of the 2010 Filing Season - in pdf format (542kb)
- (This document requires the use of Adobe Acrobat Reader). Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration, March 31, 2010. Reference Number: 2010-41-047. "... As of March 5, 2010, the IRS received nearly 61.3 million tax returns. Of those, 51.6 million were electronically filed (approximately equal to this time last year) and nearly 9.7 million were filed on paper (a decrease of almost 20 percent from this time last year). The IRS issued nearly 52 million refunds totaling approximately $160.2 billion. The IRS recognized the difficulty taxpayers may have in claiming new credits and/or deductions. In an attempt to reduce this difficulty, the IRS created new forms, schedules, and instructions. The IRS also developed programming to identify taxpayers who may not have claimed credits to which they were entitled at the time they filed their tax returns. In addition, expanded math error authority is enabling the IRS to stop the erroneous claiming of credits/deductions. However, implementing new tax legislation is still presenting some challenges for the IRS..."
Added: 19 April 2010;
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- IRS E-file Overhaul Triggers Errors
- By Aliya Sternstein. NextGov, 15 April 2010. "A $574 million program to overhaul the IRS' existing method for electronically collecting tax returns is supposed to provide instant processing capabilities and improved error detection, but the system is erroneously rejecting returns, according to report released Thursday, tax day, by a Treasury watchdog..."
Added: 19 April 2010;
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