Tax Information Group for EDI Requirements Standardization (TIGERS)
Terry Garber opened the meeting with the tentative agenda.
Monday 10/4/99
Tuesday 10/5/99
Wednesday, 10/6/99
Thursday, 10/7/99
The meeting began with introductions. There was discussion about the status of the 820 Data Maintenance Request. Terry Garber and Rick Rodriguez followed up on it, and it was moved from Finance back to Technical assessment for approval to go out on ballot.
There was discussion that contractors working on an IFTA (International Fuel Tax Agreement) application want to add a MSG Segment to T/S 150 Tax Rate Notification. They may be attending Communications Subcommittee meetings, but have not attended X12-Government - Tax meetings.
Transaction Set 283 Tax or Fee Exemption was discussed, and how to get it into use. Information has been given to the Multistate Tax Commission (MTC), including mappings of the MTC's uniform exemption form. There has been much discussion of a multi-state means of calculating and allocating sales tax for Internet transactions online. A uniform way to handle exemptions will also be needed.
Tax Information Interchange Development (TG2)
Finance asked for one modification to the proposed data maintenance to the TXP loop in the 820 segment. Ray Ivaska moved, and Debbie Johnson seconded, to make the occurrences of the proposed DTM and REP segments in the TXP loop both > 1. Motion was passed unanimously.
The meeting continued with discussion on the Electronic Commerce Best Practices (ECBP) document. We reviewed drafts made to the document and discussed the BTTG issues that fit into this document.
TAS had asked for minimal changes to be made to the following:
Volume II &endash; Technical Reference Model &endash; Refer to X12.58 in document
Child Support Enforcement Business Reference Model &endash; take out reference to a companion document
T/S 521 Income or Asset Offset Tutorial &endash; add all codes, complete notes, and add explicit decimal points.
With these changes made, TAS approved all three documents for publication.
It was time to elect officers for TIGERS. Jim Wassin made the motion on the floor that all officers currently serving, continue so for the next two years. Bob Shickora seconded the motion. All were in favor. There needed to be a secretary added. There was a motion on the floor, seconded, and all in favor that Debbie Johnson take over that office.
The officers are as follows:
Terry Garber &endash; Chairperson
Stan Farmer &endash; Co-Chairperson
Jonathan Lyon &endash; Program Manager
Debbie Johnson &endash; Secretary
Tax Information Interchange Development (TG2)
We discussed document sent by Debbie Wise (PA) on where EDI is best used.
Electronic Commerce Modeling Language (ECML) Specification were handed out by Jonathan Lyon and discussed.
We reviewed Volume I, made corrections, and applied new suggestions to the document.
There was discussion of how represented states handled the 997 ACK to users when they send data in different formats. Oklahoma is remaining backwards compatible and will be able to process different versions. Pennsylvania sends them a rejection if the users are not using their current version of 4020.
Tax Information Interchange Development (TG2)
Kit Lueder with MITRE Corporation discussed the IRS Electronic Filing Data Format using T/S 813. He said he was not getting enough feedback or support to continue with his mapping efforts. Jim Wassin of the IRS discussed prior efforts to move the 1040 to EDI format, and the lack of benefits seen. It was noted that an XML format may be useful for Internet filing. There is a huge investment by both IRS, state revenue agencies, and the tax software community in the current .IRS format
We reviewed the T/S 540 Notice of Employment Status Tutorial sent by Katie Fagan.
We reviewed and made modifications to the ECBP document questions 1-12.
We decided there would not be an Interim meeting in November or December. We will meet again at the ASC X12 Committee Meeting on February 6-11, 2000, in Denver, CO. An agenda will be prepared and sent out to all TIGERS members prior to the meeting.