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Wednesday, April 24, 2002 -- Tax Information Group for ECommerce Requirements
Standardization (TIGERS)
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Terry Garber opened the meeting with the tentative agenda and welcoming everyone.
The planned agenda:
Wednesday 4/24/2002 (1:30pm to 5:00pm)
· Welcome and Agenda Review
· Introductions and Survey of Interest
· IRS Update
ÿ 941/1120 Schema Design
ÿ E-file Transport and Packaging
Thursday 4/25/2002 (8:30am to 5:00pm)
· Review Master Data Element List for State UI and Revenue Filings
· Taxonomy Approaches &endash; How To Build and Maintain Standard Taxonomies
· Review State Employment Schema Structures Modeled After IRS
ÿ State Revenue Schema
ÿ State UI Schema
ÿ Combined Filing Schema
ÿ Payments Schema
Friday 4/26/2002 (8:30am to 12:00pm)
· Acknowledgements &endash; IRS and State
ÿ Transport packaging implications
ÿ Functional vs. Application Acknowledgements
· Sales Tax XML Update
· Motor Fuel XML Update
· June Agenda Planning
Wednesday, April 24, 2002 -- Tax Information Group for ECommerce Requirements
Standardization (TIGERS)
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Terry Garber began the introductions and statements of interests of all parties present.
Greg Carson, with the IRS, gave a brief update of an upcoming IRS Conference. They plan to go International with XML using work done with TIGERS. 20 different countries were expected to attend.
Bert Ortiz, with the IRS, stated that he was working on the 940/941 Schemas for January 2003. He has to create a Guide for the Published Schemas, as the 94X work has to develop quickly. He has until January 2004 to complete work on the 1120 Schema.
It was stated that TIGERS hopes to take the work that is being done including the business needs of constituents and create a shareable template. A common architecture of data structures needs to be adopted for mutual benefit.
Tom Guinan of IBM gave a presentation on the IRS E-File Transmission Packaging and XML Schemas. There was a discussion following the presentation. More forms and schedules are going on to their system independently. Revisions will continue to be made to all schemas as needed. The transmission structure will be using SOAP which has messages with attachments. SOAP has an envelope with a Header and Body parts followed by MIME parts.
What makes the return original? The Origin Header with a manifest pointing to the originator of the returns has to be universally unique. For each transmission file, there will be an Acknowledgement (ACK) file going back. The SOAP Header is optional, but the Body must always be present as it tells all of the ACKS in the file (whether it was accepted or rejected).
Thursday, April 25, 2002 -- Tax Information Group for ECommerce Requirements
Standardization (TIGERS)
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Jim Rowland gave a COTS/SPEF presentation where he took the 941 Schema and substituted typical state withholding tax data. A draft of the State Data Elements was reviewed. All duplications were pointed out and modifications will be made to eliminate them.
There was discussion on Taxonomy Approaches and how one might build and maintain Standard Taxonomies. It was decided that a maximum size be set for the fields and that Legacy Systems could handle the file from there.
State Employment Schema Structures modeled after the IRS were reviewed and discussed. They were broken down by State Withholding information, State Unemployment Insurance (UI)information, Combined Withholding and UI information, and Payment information.
It was suggested that we work on creating three types of acknowledgements to relay the status of the data: 1) Transmission Receipt ACK; 2) Return ACK; and 3) Origin ACK.
The information needed for each acknowledgement is to be determined.
Friday, April 26, 2002 -- Tax Information Group for ECommerce Requirements
Standardization (TIGERS)
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There was discussion on the Essential and Optional Gateway Functions. Several ideas were presented and many questions raised. It was decided that we would need to conduct further research before any conclusions could be derived. Some preliminary thoughts of the process are:
1) Receive Transmissions
2) Handle SOAP Protocols
3) Authenticate Transmission
4) Send Acknowledgements, and Optionally Receive Acknowledgements
5) Send Transmission Receipts
6) Post Acknowledgements
A) Transmission Batch Status
A1) All batches not previously queried.
A2) Any batch by transmission id. (optional)
B) Return Status
Gateway Authentication, Filing, and Data Staging will be documented for later review.
It was decided that some more research and documentation would be worked on and brought to our next meeting on June 4, 2002, in Minneapolis, MN.
ACTION ITEMS FOR NEXT MEETING
ITEMS WORK DONE BY:
Data Elements Faye Shea
Adding States (old and new)
Add Forms (Annual Fed/State Send to Jim Rowland and
Reconciliation & W2s and W3s) Matt Smith by May 15th.
Consolidate Redundant Tag Names Jim Rowland and Matt Smith
Redistribute by May 25th.
Schemas Jim Rowland by May 25th.
Refine Schemas to realistic working draft
(From conceptual model to working draft)
Gateway Terry Garber by May 25th.
Update Document
Minutes Debbie Johnson and Matt Smith to
Publish.
Research and Document Illinois PKI Mary Thomas, Faye Shea, Jim
Rowland, and Timur Taluy for
June 4, 2002.
Research HTTPS License Issue Christian Bethea, Richard Rogers,
and Intuit for June 4, 2002.
Post June Meeting Announcement and Agenda Terry Garber and Jonathan Lyon
Research/Propose How to Generate Unique
Tracking Number Stephen Bouchard and Timur Taluy
Research Issue of Combined vs. Separate
Withholding and UI, and Gateway Implications ***Each State Bring to June Meeting
Payments Schema
Adjust for Bulk Filing GOVONE
Add overpayments/credits VRI and Illinois
Document/Post ACK Design Work Terry Garber and Jonathan Lyon