PRESENTATION OF IMAGE OF SOURCE OF TAX DATA THROUGH TAX PREPARATION APPLICATION

摘要

Methods, systems and articles of manufacture for generating interface elements of an electronic tax preparation application to allow a taxpayer or user to view a portion of an image of a tax document that is a source of data for a field of a screen generated by the electronic tax application. The image portion displayed may be a particular box or field of a tax document for a corresponding particular field of the screen generated by the electronic tax preparation or a bounding region including one or more adjacent or surrounding boxes or fields. Embodiments allow taxpayers to view an image of a source document while viewing the data that was entered in the field from within the tax preparation application without having to consult paper copies of the tax documents.

主权项

1. A computer-implemented method for presentation of a source of tax data through a tax preparation application utilized by a taxpayer to prepare an electronic tax return, the method comprising:
a computer receiving a request by the taxpayer to view a document that is a source of data in a field of a displayed screen generated by the tax preparation application during preparation of the electronic tax return; and in response to the request, the computer accessing a data store, identifying in the data store an image of a document that is the source of the data, and selecting a portion of the image, the selected portion of the image being displayed on the screen simultaneously with the data.