surveys & research

can’t irs online accounts be more useful?

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taxpayers and pros alike are frustrated, exasperated, disappointed and angry.

by 卡塔尔世界杯常规比赛时间 research

ever-improving internet commerce is one of the great developments of this first quarter of a century. the process and potential of dealing with products and services, including government services, has come a long way from the toddling brouhaha of the world wide web of the 1990s.

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the internal revenue service still dreams of joining these early years of the 21st century. to get started, the service has gone so far as to launch an individual online account program. iolas allow taxpayers to

  • view basic information,
  • make payments,
  • enter into payment plans and
  • view and download certain notices.

all of which is very nice but soooo 1998.
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nuclear battery could keep your future phone running for 50 years

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you would need a new phone before you ran out of juice.

by rick richardson
technology this week

a new nuclear battery created by a chinese company might power your phone for 50 years with no need to be charged.

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at 15 x 15 x 5 mm, betavolt technology says it has successfully shrunk atomic energy batteries. through the process of radioactive decay, the small battery produces 100 microwatts and a voltage of 3v using 63 nuclear isotopes.

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health, wealth, stealth: challenges on the path to partnership

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and why we need them.

by martin bissett
passport to partnership

now we move on to our sixth “c” in the passport to partnership – challenges.

again the heading has more than a single application, which we’ll explore here.

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ultimately, the partners interviewed in our research broke “challenges” down into two key areas:

  1. the ability for a manager to pull the firm out of the mire when there’s a problem
  2. the ability for a manager to pull the client out of the mire when there’s a problem

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id theft a problem for irs even when it doesn’t exist

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either way it consumes scarce resources.

by 卡塔尔世界杯常规比赛时间 research

tax return identity theft’s a bummer.

how big a bummer?

so big that even when there’s no theft, it’s a bummer.

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it’s a bummer when it happens, not only because it happened but because the internal revenue service can take up to 19 months to recognize the problem, do something about it and send the hapless taxpayer a refund not for this year’s return, not for last year’s return, but for the year before last.

and it’s a bummer when there’s no theft involved because when the irs’s rickety technology flags a return as a possible id theft, the return gets delayed for months and months of manual processing.
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what could accounting-specific ai bring?

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new tools are being built for finance. how can accountants best leverage them?

by hitendra patil
rise of the aiccountants

bloomberg released a research paper detailing the development of bloomberggpt, a new large-scale generative artificial intelligence (ai) specifically trained on a wide range of financial data to support diverse natural language processing (nlp) tasks within the financial industry.

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according to bloomberg, “the team pulled from this extensive archive of financial data to create a comprehensive 363 billion token dataset consisting of english financial documents. this data was augmented with a 345 billion token public dataset to create a large training corpus with over 700 billion tokens. using a portion of this training corpus, the team trained a 50-billion parameter decoder-only causal language model.”

imagine how long it will take for a human being to grasp that volume of data!
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