Tax

Following are some jobs Robots have been trained to perform within Tax:

  • Extract book trial balance and key balances such as accruals, fixed assets, M&E or other tax sensitive accounts.

    • 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.

    • 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.

    • 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.

  • Download of specific reports at specified times and emailing them to stakeholders.

    • 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.

  • Checking returns to ensure proper attachments and elections are included.

    • 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.

    • Clearing diagnostics for eFiling.

    • XML to return reconciliation.

    • Print or email eFiling acceptance notification or rejections or emailing to a specified person.

    • Save to designated file with correct naming convention.

    • Maintain historic tax data for audit purposes.