“IT. CAN: be a urabting ex-
perience tor sec a detailed i ‘ine

program, 7 .
Although. Centa has been’
j-gomputerized since 1976, In-
gram only started using Tax-
“ability this March, He says it
» can do a two-hour tax return
vin half an hour, and a half-
“hour, tax return in 10

minutes... Next.- year, whe:

repeat Taxability customers
come in, some returns could
be completed in as little as
three minutes. ©
Taxability can make
logical decisions about what

«| should . be: appearing on..a-

:-return, and then remind the

‘user about areas of specific
veoncern. ‘Ingram

demonstrated this logic by
“making up a tax return for a
; * single. ‘parent.

equivalent to married exemp-
tion — available only. to
single parents — after it
noticed a child’s name but no
spouse’s name on the return,
Finally, because the income
was high, it assumed tl.at the
taxpayer. was working: full
time and. using daycare, so it
asked about child care
expenses.

Some of the magic
vanishes when you j;ealize

that the machine has simply |

been programmed by Ingram
to ask every. question a good
tax consultant would ask.: -
Taxability -automatically
does the ‘‘bull work" of a tax
Teturn, like forward averag-
ing calculations. Even better,
it keeps a running total of

your refund/amount due;

making it possible to try out
different ‘‘what ifs.”

Ingram dismissed fears of
computer piracy, saying that
a customer’s financial infor-
mation is still secure within
Taxability. “‘It's-a hell of a
lot easier to break into the
drawer of a filing cabinet.’*

Ingram is toying. with, the
idea of putting coin-operated

. Taxability computers into -

23 - Sunday, April 28, 1985 - North Shore News

program is Tom Omidi, a
professional systems analyst.

The earliest that his ‘pro--

gram could hit the market,
however, is next year ;—
Omidi still has to find finan:

cial backing -for his” product:

shopping centres for the . .
public to use. But he has yet: §

to figure out how to limit ac-
cess of users to only their
own return,

Another North Vancouver”

entrepreneur who has recent-

ly developed his own income. ..
tax preparation computer.

and “develop a marketing
strategy.

The program, | which ‘took
four months to develop, has
been tested by Omidi on the

_tax seturns of clients.

First, the program ‘flashed ;
a reminder*‘that family
¢ allowance. income’:had not
been reported: Then it asked . -
‘about alimony.”: Next, it .
reminded Ingram to use
schedule ° six 10. , Claim the

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