RE: [tax] Comments on XML Position Paper from IRS

[Smoter Susan <Susan.Smoter@irs.gov>]

Title: Message

Attached are two files w/ comments from Mitre and the IRS' Enterprise Data Management Group that runs the IRS XML user group.

 

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Susan L. Smoter
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Electronic Tax Administration
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-----Original Message-----
From: George Farkas [mailto:gfarkas@xbisoftware.com]
Sent: Friday, March 12, 2004 10:59 AM
To: tax@lists.oasis-open.org
Cc: eric.e.cohen@us.pwc.com
Subject: RE: [tax] Comments on XML Position Paper

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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TaxXMLPaperReview.doc

ATO Handbook comments.doc