Abstract: Systems and methods for providing financial account information for an employee for setting up direct deposit of pay checks into a financial account of the employee. A financial services system receives a request from a payroll processor of an employer of the employee for account information for a financial account held by the employee, the request including personal information of the employee. The financial services system searches a database for a financial account held by the employee and identifies a financial account held by the employee by matching the personal information received in the request with corresponding information associated with a matching financial account stored in the database. The financial services system transmits the financial account information for the matching financial account sufficient to set up direct deposit to the payroll processor. The payroll processor then sets up direct deposit of the employee's pay checks into the matching financial account.

Abstract: A system and method for error reduction may reduce errors of tax returns filed with a taxing authority. The system and method for error reduction may include an error reduction component that may compare user-supplied tax information to corresponding tax entity information accessed from a taxing authority. The error reduction component may present the corresponding tax information to the user. If a discrepancy is detected by the error reduction component, the error reduction component may notify the user so that the discrepancy may be corrected before a tax return containing the discrepant information is filed with a taxing authority. The error reduction component may enable a user to correct discrepancies in user-supplied tax information and/or corresponding tax entity information possessed by a taxing authority. In various embodiments, the error reduction component may be implemented with a tax preparation application.