Agenda

Day 1 – Individual Returns

Time

Topic

Speaker

8:30 – 9:30 am

Conference Opening

David R. Williams, Director
Electronic Tax Administration and Refundable Credits

9:30 – 10:15 am

2008 Filing Season Recap/
2009 e-file Programming Updates

Peggy Bogadi, Director
Submission Processing

10:15 – 10:30 am

Morning Break

10:30 – 11:15 am

Economic Stimulus Tax Year
2008 Reconciliation

William Phillips, Program Analyst
Strategy and Finance

Robert Erickson, Tax Law Specialist
Customer Account Relationship and Education

11:15 – 12:00 am

MeF Form 1040 Update

Valerie Gunter, Sr. Manager
Electronic Tax Administration

12:00 – 1:00 pm

Lunch

Room 1

Room 2

1:00 – 1:45 pm

MeF Owners Manual

Xan Ostro
Sr. Program Analyst

Carol McLaughlin
Electronic Tax Administration

My IRS Account (ICAS) Update

Beth Jones, Director
W&I Customer Accounts Services
Electronic Products & Services Support (EPSS)

1:45 – 2:30 pm

MeF Odds and Ends

Panel Discussion
Lee Lawrence, Project Manager

MeF 1040
Electronic Tax Administration and Refundable Credits

CADE: The Foundation of the
IRS Business Modernization Projects

Jeff Cooper, Business Requirements Director
Submission Processing

2:30 – 3:15 pm

Everything You Wanted to Know
About Software Report Cards

Jose Plazza, Sr. Tax Analyst
Janice Foulk, Tax Analyst
Submission Processing
e-Submissions

e-Help Desk

Keith Wallace, Technical Advisor
W&I Customer Account Services
Electronic Products & Services Support (EPSS)

3:30 – 3:15 pm

Afternoon Break

3:30 – 4:15 pm

EITC Sets Sail with Software Developer
PartnerSHIP

Pat Lee, Sr. Manager
Electronic Tax Administration
Earned Income Tax Credit and Refundable Credits

Introduction to The Pre-Refund Program

David Knight, Sr. Manager
Pre-Refund Programs
Electronic Tax Administration and Refundable Credits

Day 2 – Privacy, Security and Business Returns

Time

Topic

Speaker

9:00 – 9:45 am

Forms and Publications

Karl Blake, Tax Specialist
Customer Account Relationship and Education

9:45 – 10:15 am

Identity theft can steal the show:
IRS efforts to protect taxpayer privacy

Kathleen Evy Walters, Acting Director
Privacy and Information Protection

10:15 – 10:30 am

Morning Break

10:30 – 11:15 am

Fraud Detection and Mitigation

Hun Kim, Director
Online Fraud Detection and Prevention

11:15 – 12:00 pm

Legacy Applications vs. New Threats

George Jakabcin, Asst. Deputy Associate CIO
ACIO Enterprise Services

Matthew L. McCormack, Director
IT Security Architecture & Engineering

12:00 – 1:00 pm

Lunch

Room 1

Room 2

1:00 – 1:45 pm

MeF Update for Processing Year 2009

Lee Lawrence, Project Manager

MeF 1040
Electronic Tax Administration and
Refundable Credits

Strengthening e-File

John Dunnivan, Deputy Commissioner
Operations Support/Privacy and Information and Data Security
Online Fraud Detection and Prevention

Alex Shojay, Sr. Tax Analyst
Electronic Tax Administration

1:45 – 2:30 pm

LMSB Audit Issues and Data Requirements

Brian Calhoun, Territory Manager
Large and Mid Sized Businesses

Eliminating the Form 8453OL

John Chow, Sr. Manager
Electronic Tax Administration

Kevin Hatton, Sr. Tax Analyst
Electronic Tax Administration

Day 1 – Morning Sessions

2008 Filing Season Recap / 2009 IMF Programming Update / Late Legislation / AMT

This presentation will cover those areas that are of specific interest to the software development community. Topics will include:

• Filing Season 2008 - How did it go?
• How did we manage the late legislation?
• Customer Service Initiatives - How can we help?
• Filing Season 2009 - How are we changing?
• Challenges for 2009 - What do we see ahead of us?

Economic Stimulus Program Reconciliation

Presentation under development: Check back soon for more details

MeF Form 1040 Update

Form 1040 on MeF is just around the corner!!! Hear about the transition schedule, forms, new functionality – all year round processing, prior year functionality, and amended returns. Learn the difference between the legacy e-file and MeF. See how the MeF Fed/State functionality will operate!

Day 1 – Afternoon Sessions

MeF Owners Manual

Hey have you heard that Form 1040 is coming to Modernized e-File?? Come and learn the technical aspects of what you need to know about Modernized e-File –Automated System Enrollment (AE), Application-to-Application (A2A), Internet Filing Application (IFA), and Strong Authentication

My IRS Account (ICAS)

Presentation under development: Check back soon for more details

Mef Odds and Ends

Come and provide your feedback in an interactive session to discuss MeF and 1040 – hear about potential changes being discussed for receipts, transition rules, schemas, business rules and a lot more!!!

CADE: The Foundation of the IRS Business Modernization Projects

Taking a look at how CADE has matured since the first release to where it is today and the vision for the future.

Everything You Wanted to Know About Software Report Cards

Did you ever wonder how your software was doing? Is your software comparable to other Tax Preparation Software? Now is your chance to find out! Come by for a rousing discussion on how to analyze your current year Software Report Card.

e-Help Desk

Come and let your voice be heard on the support that the IRS provides to you, the e-file Software Developer. This is an interactive session focusing on support provided by the e-help Desk and improvements/changes you would like to suggest

EITC Sets Sail with Software Developer PartnerSHIP

The IRS and the software industry have partnered to identify EITC software enhancements. Come learn about the ideas from this working group that can help clients get EITC right. Also hear about the new proposed regulations on EITC due diligence.

Introduction to Pre-Refund Programs

As part of the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) office, the Pre-Refund Program's role is to coordinate a service-wide approach to pre-refund compliance activities. It is tasked with ensuring that refunds that are legally due to taxpayers are processed and released in a timely manner, while detecting and preventing improper refund claims from being disbursed.

Day 2 – Morning Sessions

Forms and Publications

This program will cover the IRS process for updating tax forms, expected changes to some of the 2008 forms, and how the forms are affected by late legislation, including AMT legislation.

Identity theft can steal the show: IRS efforts to protect taxpayer privacy

This presentation will include an overview of the roles and responsibilities of the new Privacy, Information Protection & Data Security office at the IRS, as well as a discussion of recent IRS efforts to protect taxpayer privacy and assist taxpayers who are victims of identity theft, including:

• The development of tracking codes to be placed on the accounts of taxpayers who are identity theft victims.
• Communications efforts to inform taxpayers about the steps they can take to avoid becoming victims of identity theft.
• The development of a specialized unit of assistors to work with taxpayers who are victims of identity theft.

Fraud Detection and Mitigation

This presentation will highlight increasing threats of online fraud against IRS and taxpayers. It will provide fraudulent methods, phishing trends, and IRS' efforts against online fraud.

Legacy Applications vs. New Threats

Mandates and public demand continue to prescribe the use of new and more capable electronic services. To meet these demands, the IRS continues to evolve from a full service/paper filing model to one of self-service/e-Filing (e-Commerce). The use of heritage applications in a modern, hostile e-commerce environment presents significant opportunities to negatively impact users and partners. What was once considered to be of little significance in the past may now offer catastrophic consequences. What proactive approach is the IRS pursuing during the design process as well as legacy code evaluation based on known malware, threats and new exploits?

Day 2 – Afternoon Sessions

MeF Update for Processing Year 2009

Find out about the new changes in Modernized e-File for 2009 – mandatory Strong Authentication, Submission Manifest changes, business form updates, etc.

Strengthening e-File

IRS and Authorized IRS e-file Providers share responsibility for safeguarding e-file and protecting taxpayer Information. In this session, we will briefly review responsibilities regarding these critical issues and present new IRS safeguard initiatives that include:

1. The elimination of Form 8453 OL and the requirement for online filers to use Self-Select PINs beginning with the 2009 Filing Season and
2. The role of the new IRS On-line Fraud Detection & Prevention office.

This session will include discussions on how the software developer can assist in these efforts and a question and answer segment.

LMSB Audit Issues and Data Requirements

This session will provide an overview of the data requirements from tax preparation software packages needed to support large corporate audits. It will include a brief presentation on general file requirements and record retention guidelines, followed by a question and answer period.

Strengthening e-file: Online Provider Rules

In response to the recent fraudulent schemes perpetrated against the IRS and taxpayers, ETARC drafted new requirements for e-file Providers to improve the protection of taxpayer information. We will present an overview of proposed requirements. This session will include discussion and a question and answer segment.