Abstract
From the background information supplied by the inventors, news correspondents o btained the followingquote: “Online services are used to prepare and store tax returns as records. The records may be preparedby an expert but may still inclu de errors that should be reviewed. A challenge is to provide a computingsystem that determines the probability that a record for a tax return includes an error , selects one of agroup of erroneous returns to display to a reviewer, and is u pdated continuously for seasonal fluctuations.”