The 2008 Bass Awards recipients include Terry Garber, who has dedicated over 20 years of her professional career toward developing more than a dozen EDI transaction sets for X12, including 813 Electronic Filing of Tax Return Data, and the XML format in the Modernization of Electronic Filing for business and individual tax return submissions in the United States with both Federal and State Governments.
Garber -- manager of new application development, Information Resource Management Division, South Carolina Department of Revenue -- has served as the central state coordinator for the rollout of the IRS-modernized Federal/State 1120 Corporate, the 1065 Partnership and the 1040 Individual Income e-File Programs, using standards developed under Garber's leadership of a task group including states, IRS, tax software developers, and tax services providers. Garber is highly visible in the nationwide Streamlined Sales Tax (SST) Registration System, designed to simplify tax filing for thousands of businesses, and authored standard SST XML schemas necessary to implement streamlined registration, filing, payment and audit procedures.
"We are honored to recognize these individuals whose dedicated commitment to advances in the X12 industry have such a profound impact on the efficiency of global data exchange," said Jerry Connors, President, DISA. These prestigious awards will be presented at the ASC X12 Fall 2008 meeting, September 21 - 26, 2008 in Pittsburgh.
