A quickly prepared example on 'machine readable payslips'.

1. Payroll
System
RDF
Ontology
Signature
Export as
PDF
Machine
Readable
Payslip
ATO
Business
Credentials
Signature
Generation
Reporting to
Accountant
Gov
reporting
(DHS, ABS,
ATO, etc.)
Store in
Email /
Bank
Account
Machine Readable Payslips can be achieved by producing PDF documents (and/or
standardised means for banking institutions to store and make ’trusted’ information via
API) that contain Signed Linked-Data Formatted Verifiable Claims which are defined by
Ontological Frameworks (AI Vocabulary) in a format that is able to be parsed by
dependent software applications.
Whilst the methodology is fairly straight forward, the requirements to
achieve this include;
1. The ability to issue and assign ABN information (Payee) for use with signatures.
2. The availability of an ontological format (vocabulary) required for the machine-
readable constituent of the document.
3. A suite of tools made available for integration with accounting platforms.
4. Marketing / Branding frameworks encouraging businesses to support it.
This application of Verifiable Claims can help manage fraud as does affect taxpayers.
Machine Readable Payslips
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2. Benefits
• The means to address various forms of (financial) wrongdoings (inc. frauds, workforce
exploitation, etc.)
• Social Security Fraud
• Fair Entitlements Guarantee (FEG)
• Improved management of ‘internships’, Traineeships, Apprenticeships, etc.
• Ability for ‘worker’ to be equipped with apps that support side-by-side (double accounting) auditing.
(ie: work hours & expenses relating to travel time, easily paired with GPS data via google).
• Means to better equip statistical reporting
• Improved (near-real-time) financial reporting capacities
• Means to Improve spending efficacy & functionality
• Means to apply resources to smaller ‘trouble areas’
• lower law-enforcement cost barriers – improve support for ‘rule of law’
• Improved means to support / address ‘gig economy’ factors
• Building Blocks for ‘internet native’ employment ecosystems
• Improved support for employment related economic stimulus management (ie: employment
subsidies, government support of ventures based upon no.# of Jobs created, etc.)
The difficulty of achieving this outcome is considered to be very low. PDF Standards incorporate the means to store RDFa, and the
means to upgrade existing accounting packages to include this information is relatively easy. Signature data can either be generated in
connection to government issued IDs or alternatively, accounting platform issued IDs.
This is considered to be a use-case that represents ‘low hanging fruit’, whereby machine readable tax receipts would be amongst the
extensions to any such operational initiative that could be established to improve efficacy of our government, its capacity to govern and
our capacity to meaningfully participate in a society governed by rule of law as may be assisted through the use of Web of Data Tooling.