RE: [tax] Comments on XML Position Paper

[George Farkas <gfarkas@xbisoftware.com>]

You are right that there is a great deal of tax data that is
non-corporate in nature. But I am not sure that is relevant. The standard
is content-independent and taxonomies can be built to work with that data
as well. There may be data that neither XBRL "view reporting"
(Eric's term) nor XBRL GL cannot handle, but I have not yet seen it. (As
an aside, my first attempt at creating a taxonomy was for Canadian
personal income tax returns.)

Cheers,

George Farkas
XBI Software Inc. 
gfarkas@xbisoftware.com


At 10:29 AM 3/12/2004, you wrote:
> At 10:01 am -0500 12/3/04, George
> Farkas wrote:
> > I agree that one ought to be
> > careful, but the discussion ignores XBRL GL.
>
> Indeed you are right George - XBRL GL is very relevant to auditing
> and
> the SAF, but we're still talking corporate data here, and there's 
> an
> awful lot of collected tax data that is non-corporate in 
> nature.
>
>
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