Identification of electronic tax return errors based on declarative constraints

摘要

Computer-implemented methods, articles of manufacture and computerized systems for identifying or alerting a user of certain data in electronic tax returns. A computerized tax return preparation system including a tax return preparation software application executed by a computing device receives electronic tax return data and populates a field of the electronic tax return. The system executes a constraint engine that compares the electronic tax return data with a constraint of a tax authority requirement expressed in a declarative format. An alert is generated for the user of the tax return preparation software application when the electronic tax data does not satisfy the declarative constraint.