Data Entry India

Author : Associated Press

According to H&R Block, rejections most commonly occur because of incorrect entries for a taxpayer’s adjusted gross income, date of birth or Social Security number for the taxpayer, spouse or children.

Most tax preparation software will not e-file a return in which it detects a major problem or error. The program may also reject returns with Social Security numbers not in the range of known numbers it has from the government.

To prepare and file a tax return electronically, you need:

A copy of last year’s tax return.
Social Security numbers for yourself, spouse and dependents.
W-2 forms from all employers for yourself and spouse.

 1099 forms showing interest, dividends, retirement or other
income paid to you during the year, including refunds, credits
and state and local taxes.
 Income receipts from rental real estate, royalties,partnerships,
corporations and trusts.
 Receipts and records for other income or expenses such as rental
real estate,partnerships, trusts and Social Security benefits.
 Receipts pertaining to your small business.
 Unemployment compensation records.

Those who itemize deductions on Schedule A may also need the following:

 Receipts for medical and dental expenses.
 Receipts from state and local taxes, real estate taxes, personal
property taxes.

Form 1098 for home mortgage interest and points.

 Receipts for charitable contributions and gifts.
 Casualty and theft losses.
 Job expenses.
 Taxpayers due a refund should have bank account and routing
numbers for direct deposit of refunds.

Those owing tax can pay electronically by charging it to a credit card, having it withdrawn from a bank account or enrolling in the U.S. Treasury’s Electronic Federal Tax Payment System. See http://eftps.gov or the IRS Web site at http://www.irs.gov for more information.

Tax preparation programs like TurboTax or TaxCut can e-file a return, as can online tax preparers and tax professionals. The IRS can also find an e-filer for you if you enter your ZIP code in the e-file locator box on the IRS Web site.

The return is transmitted via a modem to an electronic return transmitter, which converts the file to a format that meets IRS specifications and forwards it to the IRS for processing. Within 48 hours the IRS confirms whether the return has been accepted or rejected.

Taxpayers who file electronically create a personal identification number, which serves as their electronic signature and requires knowing their 2004 adjusted gross income. Taxpayers who don’t create a PIN can still file electronically but will also have to mail Form 8453-OL to the appropriate IRS service center after they have received IRS confirmation that the e-filed return was accepted.

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Category: General

Author : Aaron Sadler

A longtime state legislator Wednesday proposed penalties for school employees who make repeated errors when entering information into a statewide school accounting system.

Data-entry errors consistently plague the Arkansas Public School Computer Network. He thinks the error-prone should be forced to undergo new training about how to enter information into the network.

Lawmakers have often criticized the system for producing inaccurate or unusable reports because of data-entry errors at the school district level.

Currently, there are no penalties for schools or their employees who make data errors.

"I've heard enough from legislators to know that this drives them nuts, thinking that we've got this information, but it's wrong, with a high error rate," Mahony said at a meeting of the Legislature's Joint Committee on Advanced Communications and Information Technology.

Monetary penalties would not be a good idea because they would take money from schools and may directly hurt students. Refusing to allow a school employee to re-enter the APSCN system until the employee completes new training is a more logical penalty.

Murry proposed that the state Department of Education compile a list of common data-entry mistakes and incorporate them into the training already required of APSCN users.

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Category: General

Author : Rick Sherman

Plenty of business intelligence (BI) or data warehouse projects have been blindsided by complications related to data quality. Sometimes these issues aren't apparent until business users start testing the systems just before going live with the projects. What causes BI project teams to get caught off guard by data quality issues? Why do these problems surface so late in the projects?

There are two common pitfalls: Defining data quality too narrowly and assuming data quality is the responsibility of the source systems.

People often assume that data quality simply means eliminating bad data - data that is missing, inaccurate or incorrect. Bad data is certainly a problem, but it isn't the only problem. Good data quality programs also ensure that data is comprehensive, consistent, relevant and timely.

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Category: General

Author : John Carroll

Outsourcing is a solution to internal incompetence at either, or both, the business and IT levels. Thus it's quite true that very few CEOs or CFOs credit any part of their organization's competitive advantage to IT, but that says a lot about them and nothing at all about whether IT should be handled internally or externally.

“Passing information control to a third party is a lot like putting somebody else in charge of regulating your heart beat: useful in the short term if your heart is failing, but not a recipe for Olympic success.”

IT outsourcing isn't a sign of incompetence. It's a sign of competence, and deciding where to concentrate limited resources. CEOs can spend their time doing the things CEOs do, or they can type up their own meeting reports, perform data entrytasks, and do other things which are better OUTSOURCED (or just offloaded) to someone else. In fact, "offloading" may be a better word than "outsourcing" given the hackles it raises among IT professionals convinced that Indian programmers will eat their lunch (they won't, but that's a subject for another blog).

That isn't to say that in sourcing doesn't make sense in certain situations. It would be fairly ridiculous for Microsoft not to maintain most of their own sites, as doing so gives them lots of flexibility not to mention real-world experience with their own products. On the other hand, Microsoft didn't build its own fabrication plants for the creation of the XBox. They outsourced that work to fabrication companies that act as hired guns for the creation of custom hardware.

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Category: General