Tax time is usually stressful and harried. One new website in Baltimore, zen-40, aims to change that.
The website prepares tax returns in a self contained application that isn't accessible via the internet for people who are worried about hackers.
“I've created a tax preparation web site that works entirely on the user's computer without sending any data over the Internet," says BobFranzese, founder of zen-40. "Currently, it only handles the simplest of tax returns, but I hope to change that in the future.”
The bare-bones site was created by a tax preparation instructor and applications developer. The website proposes that it represents a more secure way to do your taxes because all of the data is kept on your computer and does not travel over the Internet. The application is an HTML file using JavaScript. None of your tax information ever travels to a server. Tax returns are then sent to your printer as an image to mask their identity.
Writer: Amy McNeal
Source: Bob Franzese, zen-40