It provides early planning data about taxpayers' use of the TY 2000 Individual Income Tax forms. The sampling of the returns entails coordination with the Chief, Receipt and Control Branch and the Lock-Box Coordinator. All receipts are subject to sampling, except information documents. It also photocopies and staples related materials to the returns before sending them to the TPUS editor. The unit includes any sampled return that is not a TY 2000 form in the daily totals, but does not photocopy it.
Work is forwarded to that area the submission processing center has assigned the task of data entry.
He or she also maintains a count of valid sampled returns and a count of invalid sampled items, or residuals, for each of these categories. Thus, it considers prior year tax returns residuals for purposes of TPUS sampling. The editing, as well as error resolution, occurs on-line using the Pyramid Nile 150 computer system which is located in the Cincinnati Submission Processing Center. SOI requires support for sampling and photocopying from the Receipt and Control Branches. The line managers in the appropriate areas are responsible for ensuring that the centers follow the instructions, and when needed, seek technical assistance from the Submission Processing Center SOI program analysts, SOI coordinators or National Office analysts.