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Manual Financial Transaction Categorization for Tax Filing Is Time-Intensive

Individuals and small business owners with mixed personal and business transactions spend significant time manually categorizing expenses for tax filing. Existing spreadsheet templates require human judgment for ambiguous items. The work is repetitive but requires enough context to resist full automation.

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