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About BEACON: Impacted Systems: Other Revenue Systems

There are several other related systems that provide additional revenue collection functionality:

  • Revenue Collections and Accounting System (RCA) performs the base revenue accounting functions for all departmental tax receipts, refunds, transfers, and distributions to local governments. RCA is a custom-developed add-on to ITAS and operates under the UNIX operating system, using the UDB/DB2 RDBMS platform. It provides a variety of reporting functions, such as collection analysis by category, and summary accounting relating to revenue collections and distributions. RCA is updated with revenue and collections data through online data entry or from batch interfaces with other systems, including Online Filing and Payments (OFP), EFT, and the Department's manual deposit system. Transfers between tax schedules and adjustments are received from ITAS.
  • Java Enabled Tax Systems (JETS) covers the majority of the remaining minor and miscellaneous tax types. This is a stand-alone system which runs on the UNIX operating system and uses the UDB/DB2 RDBMS platform.
  • VISTA processes motor carriers tax information (returns, assessments, refunds, manual entry of payments), and is a stand-alone system.
  • USUB is used to track assessments and collections relating to unauthorized substances. It is a stand-alone application.

In addition, the Department has added functionality over the last several years that facilitates more efficient and accurate tax return intake and processing.

  • Data Capture captures images of tax returns and other incoming documents and automatically updates ITAS with data from the scanned images. This system was implemented in 1999. Data Capture is based on the IBM/IFP document imaging platform. The DocQuery tool provides access to the images captured.
  • Electronic Filing for Individual Income Tax (ELF) which allows individual taxpayers to file their returns via the Fed/State electronic filing program.
  • Electronic Funds Transfer (EFT) which provides taxpayers with the ability to pay business taxes electronically.
  • Online Filing and Payments (OFP), which accommodates online payment of individual income tax returns (tax returns are still sent in paper form or ELF). OFP also allows the filing and payment of sales and use tax returns. It has a batch interface with ITAS.

Electronic direct deposit of individual income tax refunds was implemented in 2003 through the use of the State's Common Payment Services (CPS).