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Friday, April 4. 2008

How Does Adobe Help You With Your Taxes?

It’s tax time and the 2008 deadline is fast approaching.Are you ready?

While now is the time to start worrying about your number crunching skills and your organizational skills, one thing you don’t have to worry about with Adobe around is your record keeping skills—with the help of the PDF file format.

Whether you do your taxes by hand or have someone do them for you, at one point or another, your tax forms will be touched by Adobe technology somewhere along the way. How?

There’s an interesting tax filing web tour over on the Adobe site that shows a behind the scenes look at how LiveCycle ES and other Adobe technology can play a role in your tax filing and tax form reviews.

Through a fictional scenario, it shows you:

-How Flex is used to build applications for constructing self serve tax filing and tax review
workflows

-What happens when you enter data into interactive forms or online questionnaires

-Multiple ways of processing submitted forms

-When Acrobat and Reader are used for working on your tax forms

-What security features keep your tax information secure

-The difference between a wet signature and a digital signature on your tax forms

-When and how 2D barcodes are used

-What types of organized forms processing workflows are possible with LiveCycle ES and Flex

Tax Tips and PDF Tips

No doubt, that when the deadline gets close, you’ll want to file those taxes the quickest and easiest way possible. Just remember that it won’t do you any good if you’re careless. So here are a few tax tips and PDF tips to keep in mind.

-Update all your PDF software before you even begin to open or fill out interactive forms.

-If you’re going to use tax-prep software such as TurboTax, H&R Block Taxcut or TaxACT, make sure you know how both desktop and online versions of the software export your returns in the PDF format.

-Stay linked to the IRS gateway page for PDF tax publications and forms for easy access the following year.

-When saving your tax returns as PDFs, make use of strong security features such as passwords and encryptions.

-If you have older versions of tax software that are no longer supported or compatible with other viewing software, check out TaxPrinter, an online service that will help you access old personal fax files by converting them into the PDF format for you.

-When you write a check to the IRS, be sure to write it out to the “Internal Revenue Service”. Three letters, if carelessly written, can easily be made into a “MRS.”, “MR.S--“ or “IRIS”, leaving thieves with access to your money.

Hope that when the April 15 deadline hits, you’ll be ready.

Posted by Reena in Diversions at 14:07

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