Tax
Following are some jobs Robots have been trained to perform within Tax:
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Extract book trial balance and key balances such as accruals, fixed assets, M&E or other tax sensitive accounts.
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Formatting, cutting, pasting to get info ready to be entered into the tax computation system.
Manipulating trial balances before importing into tax tool.
Rollover balances and input into tool.
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Validating information by referring to a checklist of items to ensure that the checklist is complete.
Assuring data such as validating the book income on the M-3 equals the book income in the equity roll-forward.
Fixed asset or quarterly payable roll forward.
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Entering tax data by pushing of tax specific data from a work paper into the tax application for federal, state, international, extensions and estimates.
Moving trial balance data from GL into tax reporting systems.
Tax return processing.
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Download of specific reports at specified times and emailing them to stakeholders.
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Identify unreconciled items and send alerts.
Checking and reconciliation of various tax balances to triage exception items for review.
Reconciliation of balance and transactions in the finance system.
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Checking returns to ensure proper attachments and elections are included.
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Certified mail – complete the 3 separate forms needed and save the receipts in the correct folder.
Create labels for mailing.
Print, file and save the returns.
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Clearing diagnostics for eFiling.
XML to return reconciliation.
Print or email eFiling acceptance notification or rejections or emailing to a specified person.
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Save to designated file with correct naming convention.
Maintain historic tax data for audit purposes.