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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 28, 2010
Filed:
Jan. 13, 2005
Chris Quinn, Del Mar, CA (US);
Matt E. Hart, Lunenburg, MA (US);
Chris Quinn, Del Mar, CA (US);
Matt E. Hart, Lunenburg, MA (US);
Intuit Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
An automated system prepares a new tax return for a user based on information associated with the user's return from a previous year. The system uses the tax return from the previous year to obtain taxpayer data and to identify sources of current data. It retrieves current year information from the sources and uses it together with data from the previous year return to prepare a new tax return with minimal user assistance. In an embodiment, the system determines the likely accuracy of a new tax return generated based on the previous year tax return, and prepares the new tax return only if the likely accuracy is above a predetermined threshold.