About BEACON: Impacted Systems: Integrated Tax and Revenue System
Business Purpose:
The Integrated Tax Administration System (ITAS) is the primary system used by the Department of Revenue (DOR) to administer revenue collections. ITAS was implemented in 1994 and covers the major tax types. ITAS supports approximately 800 users in 32 field offices with about 220 state auditors, 280 collectors and examiners, and 25 to 30 out-of-state auditors.
Capabilities:
ITAS provides the following functionality essential to its operations:
- Tracks taxpayer-related information, such as name and address, SSN/FEIN, relationships between taxpayers such as spouse and family information, corporate parent/subsidiary relationships, doing business as (DBA) and corporate officer information. This process also includes such activity as printing labels for returns and recording mail returned by the post office.
- Enables filing of tax returns and payment of taxes
- Performs taxpayer accounting, which posts transactions and payments to a taxpayer's account, calculates penalties or interest charges, refunds or bills customers for over or underpayment as appropriate, and provides management reports
- Applies and processes payments, including NSF checks
- Generates notices and other correspondence with taxpayers
- Provides case management functionality to provide assistance and support to all employees who interact with taxpayers.
ITAS has undergone continual modifications to meet legislative and state revenue collection requirements.
Technical Platform:
ITAS is a mainframe system written in COBOL and EasyTrieve programming languages and runs on the DB2 database platform. Although the capability exists, DOR has not implemented the Graphical User Interface (GUI) feature. User access to ITAS is through mainframe terminals, also known as green-screen, a technology that is universally considered outdated given the more recent GUI and browser-based access available in most systems today.