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The tax information return most familiar to the greatest number of people is the Form W-2, which reports wages and other forms of compensation paid to employees. There are also many forms used to report non-wage income, and to report transactions that may entitle a taxpayer to take a credit on an individual tax return.
DATATRIEVE is a database query and report writer tool originally from Digital Equipment Corporation. It runs on the OpenVMS operating system, as well as several PDP-11 operating systems. DATATRIEVE's command structure is nearly plain English, and it is an early example of a Fourth Generation Language (4GL) .
Automatic Exchange of Information between countries is comparatively new, starting with the EU's Savings Directive.. In 2010, the United States implemented the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act provisions as part of the Hiring Incentives to Restore Employment Act, which required banks and other financial institutions to report on accounts held by US citizens anywhere in the world.
In an employer–employee arrangement, Forms W-9 and 1099 should not be used. Instead, the corresponding Form W-4 (to provide information) and Form W-2 (to report the amount paid) should be filed instead. [5] However, an employer may still send Form W-9 to have the information on record that the payee does not need to be sent a Form 1099.
With respect to the federal income tax on individuals, the 1954 Code imposed a progressive tax with 24 income brackets applying to tax rates ranging from 20% to 91%. For example, the following is a schedule showing the federal marginal income tax rate imposed on each level of taxable income of a single (unmarried) individual under the 1954 Code:
SAF-T (Standard Audit File for Tax) is an international standard for electronic exchange of reliable accounting data from organizations to a national tax authority or external auditors. The standard is defined by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).
In the United States, an income tax audit is the examination of a business or individual tax return by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) or state tax authority. The IRS and various state revenue departments use the terms audit, examination, review, and notice to describe various aspects of enforcement and administration of the tax laws .
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