Taxes: how e-filing options stack up

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Preparing and filing one's income taxes by computer has become even more inexpensive, faster and easier to do in 2000 because of a slew of Internet-based tax preparation programs. IntelligentTaxes.com publisher Bill Anderson noted that Internet-based tax preparation programs cost considerably less to produce than desktop software. Cambridge, MA-based Forrester Research has predicted in a report that up to 1.25 million tax returns will be prepared on Internet World Wide Web-based programs before the Apr 17, 2000, filing deadline.

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Internet glitch exposes taxpayers' data

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H and R Block Inc has taken its tax preparation program offline since Feb 14, 2000, because of a problem that has allowed some of its clients' financial information to be available to others. The company, which has about 300,000 users for the online tax preparation site, cited nine cases that prompted the shutting down of the program. H and R Block said that the problem occurred after a programmer tried to increase the site's response time.

Data Processing Services, Tax Processing DP Services, H and R Block Inc., Tax preparation services

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Web site watches how far a dollar really goes

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Hank Eskin's Internet site www.wheresgeorge,com, The Great American Dollar Bill Locator, allows users to register serial numbers from all kinds of bills. To date, 415,000 serial numbers have been registered by 28,000 users. This represents only a fraction of the estimated 20 billion bills in circulation, according to Eskin, who holds an MBA from the prestigious Wharton School.

Strategy & planning

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