TaxData2

Abstract

The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Form 990 is filed by nonprofit organizations, such as tourism offices, recording financial information, contributors, officers and their positions, grants, and various other information about the organization. Starting in 2011, many of these forms were electronically filed into Extensible Markup Language (XML) format and were made public on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) and IRS websites. Although this information is available to the public, XML files are difficult to read. There can be over 1,000 lines of tax jargon in the XML files. Dr. Zach realized this and approached Dr. Fox with the TaxData project. The goal of this project is to convert tax data in flat file and XML file format into a readable format and run some preliminary analyses. TaxData was first introduced into the CS 4624: Multimedia, Hypertext, and Information Access capstone class during the Spring 2022 semester. A group of students worked on this project from January 2022 to May 2022. I have picked up this project for the Fall 2022 semester to make some improvements. The report outlines my work on the project through: Objectives, Deliverables, Requirements, Design, Implementation, Testing, User Manual, Developer's Manual, and Lessons Learned.