First Byte Corporation: Tax Accounting & Billing System

First Byte Corporation's Tax Accounting and Billing System (TABS) has been used successfully throughout New Jersey for more than ten years. TABS is designed to comply with all of the MOD IV property tax collection, accounting and billing requirements of the State of New Jersey and the New Jersey Municipal Tax Collector and has been reviewed and approved by the New Jersey Department of Community Affairs. TABS is designed to be utilized by both small and large New Jersey municipalities as a single user mode as well as true multi-user mode which permits multiple operators to utilize virtually all of the aspects of TABS at the same time.

TABS is an up-to-date, comprehensive software package. It was developed with operational simplicity in mind. With the assistance of several New Jersey Tax Collectors, we have designed TABS to permit local government professionals with almost no computer experience to take full advantage of all of its capability and wide selection of features. The following are some of the key features of TABS.

TABS has been designed to simplify and speed all aspects of daily Tax Department operations. We have streamlined such processes as the collection and posting of daily payments, the calculation of interest and late charges, account inquiries and interactive control of delinquent accounts and liens. All reports may be produced on an "on-demand¨ basis.

In order to simplify the daily, monthly, quarterly and annual reconciliation of the Tax Collector's records, TABS produces Complete Audit Trails of all property master record changes as well as all financial postings. This capability provides the Tax Collector and Auditor with the resources to easily reconcile all financial and non-financial postings on a daily, monthly and annual basis.

TABS is driven by simple and Concise Data Entry and Inquiry Screens. Even the most complex transactions can be handled through a single screen. Our comprehensive account inquiry screen provides information including the basic property record data and complete financial postings for both the current year and history years. Data retrieval is greatly simplified by offering access to data by account number, block and lot, owner name, property address and bank code.

TABS is complete with a full set of financial and supplemental reports. The On Demand Reporting capabilities include the ability to produce a detailed ledger for single or multiple accounts and a comprehensive trial balance report that supports and simplifies the reconciliation of the system to the Tax Duplicate on a page by page basis.

We have provided the Tax Collector with the ability to maintain as many years of On-Line Detail History as may be desired. We provide full access to this history through both screen inquiry or hard copy reports.

TABS has the ability, at the Tax Collector's option, to actually print and post the annual Property Tax Billing. TABS maintains all of the standard bank and mortgage company data in order to automatically sort printed bills and related reports by bank and mortgage company. Billing reports also provide the ability to reconcile to the Tax Duplicate on a page by page basis.

TABS has a very dynamic lien tracking system for both municipal and outside liens. This includes complete tax sale preparation and processing, plus on-screen and printed redemption worksheets. Only a single screen is required to either create or redeem a lien.

TABS includes the necessary programs to produce on-demand Delinquency and Title Lien reports as well as Delinquent Notices to be mailed to taxpayers.

The use of TABS may be substantially enhanced when used in conjunction with our Byte Municipal Revenue Collections Systems (MRCS) which integrates the use of an on-line cash register environment for the collection and posting of daily revenue receipts. Together, MRCS and TABS complete all postings with transactions being handled only once.

TABS also supports the ability to Export Data for special needs such as spreadsheet analysis. Special Mailings, labels and word processing.

Our ODBC interface allows for the information that is being maintained by TABS to be accessed by other ODBC compliant tools. This allows the re-use of this information in other applications such as Property Tax Assessment, Construction Code Enforcement, etc.