FDX Download

JSON File Export/Import Use Case

The JSON file export/import (or file download/upload) use case is depicted in the diagram below and in this short video.

It is a valid use case under the following circumstances:

The issuer of the income tax document cannot justify the cost to develop, maintain, and operate an API server.
The time and cost to establish data sharing agreements with all tax software companies is too great.

Issuers of Annual Tax Documents — JSON File Export (Download)

In addition to providing download of annual tax documents in human-readable form (PDF), add download of the tax document data as industry-standard FDX JSON that tax software can consume.

Your website might have a page that looks like this:

A taxpayer would download the FDX JSON file as seen in this video clip.

Income Tax Return Preparation Applications — File Import (Upload)

Tax software applications provide for upload of FDX JSON files.

Here is an example page from a tax software app.

Taxpayers drag and drop the downloaded FDX JSON file as seen in this video.