Patent ID: 7234103

Claim:
A method for providing a network-based tax service database interface comprising the steps of: (a) accessing tax-related forms in a governmentally maintained forms database, wherein the tax-related forms include a plurality of fields; (b) accessing a revenue services database, wherein the revenue services database stores tax return data in duplicate, in a first table on the revenue services database and in a second table on the revenue services database; (c) extracting a portion of the tax return data from the revenue services database, such that the extracted tax return data is provided to a legacy processing system from the first table and the extracted tax return data is provided to a corporate information database from the second table independently from the extracted tax return data from the first table; (d) completing at least one of the tax-related forms, wherein a first set of fields from the plurality of fields are filled based on the tax return data, wherein the tax return data on which field filling is based is extracted from both the legacy processing system and a succeeding processing system, wherein a second set of fields from the plurality of fields is populated with results from calculations based on data entered into a first set of fields, and wherein the revenue services database mirrors data tables on the succeeding processing system; (e) submitting the tax-related forms to a governmental entity, wherein the tax-related forms are formatted based on rules associated with the governmental entity; (f) sending updates to the tax-related forms to a processor utilizing a network for processing and subsequent use; and (g) displaying an activities interface to the user, wherein the activities interface identifies activities for users to complete, and governs the data collection process for completing the identified activities.