PRODOK Engineering

The 2006 issue of the award winning (thanks to PDFfolio) IRS Tax Products CD-ROM is now out. It can be ordered from NITS, and is shipped worldwide.

As in the earlier versions, the navigation and product finding system is using PDFfolio, as it has been reported in this case study.

The 2006 issue comes with an additional goodie, showing the scalability of PDFfolio. The package contains also the IRS Tax Products Historical DVD, which essentially which essentially has all the tax forms published by the IRS since 1913, and all IRS publications since 1994.

The United States Internal Revenue Service(IRS) has been distributing their tax forms and publications in electronic form for years. They were iamong the very early adopters of the PDF technology. They initially distributed their products via BBS and CD-ROM.

There have been issues with the creation/compilation of the products placed on the CD-ROM, which escalated with the tax year 2003 edition. They included a manually intensive preparation cycle; incorrect (or missing) links to products; difficulty for the user finding the correct products, and early cutoff times. When the production process was reviewed at the end of the production cycle, a better solution was needed. The IRS performed an extensive search for solutions to help speed up the preparation process, and the PDFfolio solution was selected.