E-taxation – An Analysis of Factors influencing the adoption of the Taxxml for Corporate Tax Reporting
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III. Conclusion The IRS has the goal of achieving 80% of federal tax and returns and information to be filed electronically by the year 2007 14 . This paper has surveyed a number of competing methodologies for electronic tax filing. Of these we have concluded that TaxXML is one of the most promising. In a few scenarios the IRS has stipulated certain guidelines forcing the adoption of electronic filing by corporations. It requires filers with over a certain number of tax documents to file using magnetic media, or optionally, online. The 14 The IRS Restructuring and Reform Act of 1998, P.L. 105-206 § 2001(a) (7/22/1998) success of this initiative depends largely on getting corporations to move to this new format. There are numerous advantages of filing taxes electronically from a business standpoint. E-filing has some explicit benefits such as extended filing periods and instant refunds while some that are intrinsic such as the enhancement of the overall business process at an organization. For businesses to adopt the process of electronic filing en-masse it is important for the tax administrators to standardize the data interchange medium. TaxXML is ideally suited for enabling this. The TaxXML framework has benefits that electronic tax filing systems based on other technologies do not. For instance, as soon as a tax document encoded using TaxXML is submitted to the tax authority, the document is checked for validity and authenticity (via the TaxXML schema) and an acknowledgement receipt can be issued to the filer almost instantly. Since every valid TaxXML document will be free of structural anomalies, the tax administrator can expeditiously process the document and reduce the cost of tax administration. Another advantage that TaxXML based systems have is that since most of the state and local tax elements are derived from federal forms, the taxes for multiple levels of administrations (federal, state, local) can be prepared at once cognizant of the differences that might exist between the protocols. The creators of TaxXML are working to optimize the tax administration mechanism in America. When there are no more challenges presented to them by the use of XML for generating and processing tax information, they will move on to the next paradigm shift. As the visionaries advance, they will leave behind a cadre who experience significantly less upheaval, but who will deepen and broaden the uses to which the new process is put. In the end the use of XML as a tax planning and compliance vehicle will be as commonplace as using a telephone is today. |
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