In this edition of "Your Tax Dollars At Work".. IRS 941[1. for non-US people or US people who do not do business accounting, the 941 is filing quarterly federal tax] Our software fills in the official PDF. We have a custom form language that we can whip up drivers in to do this. This form almost never changes but I have to write a new driver every damned year. Why? They arbitrarily change field named for no rational reason. Let's take the first checkbox as an example. 2016

In this edition of "Your Tax Dollars At Work"..

IRS 941¹

Our software fills in the official PDF. We have a custom form language that we can whip up drivers in to do this.

This form almost never changes but I have to write a new driver every damned year.

Why?

They arbitrarily change field named for no rational reason.

Let's take the first checkbox as an example.
2016

topmostSubform[0].Page1[0].Header[0].ReportForQuarter[0].c101[0]

2017

topmostSubform[0].Page1[0].Header[0].ReportForQuarter[0].c1_01[0]

Yes, every field in the form is the same except they removed the final underscore. Why is anyone's guess. They do this every year.

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for non-US people or US people who do not do business accounting, the 941 is filing quarterly federal tax

2017-04-18T16:48:41Z