Govern Tax Billing & Collections

The Govern Tax Billing & Collections Suite is comprised of five easy to use and comprehensive modules designed to reduce the time and energy Tax Collectors and Treasurers spend processing taxes and payments and managing delinquent taxes. Click on a title below to jump to module-specific details.

• Real Property Tax Billing
• Self Reported Tax
• Tax Title/Tax Lien/Tax Sales
• Accounts Receivable/Cash Collection

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Real Property Tax Billing

Simplifying the Billing & Payment Process for Tax Officials

The Govern Real Property Tax Billing module is designed to simplify the billing and payment process for tax officials. This module is able to receive all changes and valuations made to the property information database. The module automatically computes all taxes and bills, including penalties and/or interests. The Real Property Tax Billing module supports the automation of data entry using scanning devices (OCR or bar coding), intelligent cash registers and lockbox processing or tax service organization (TSO) processing.

Self Reported Tax

Tax Solutions for Municipal Governments

The Govern Self Reported Tax module is a flexible and easy to use software solution that helps you efficiently manage and collect the following types of taxes:

• Lodging or room tax
• Liquor tax
• Sales and use tax
• Business sales tax
• Mercantile tax
• Earned income tax
• Head tax
• Net profits tax
• Occupational license tax
• Insurance premium tax
• and more!

Reporting periods are user-defined and can be modified at any point. Once set up, the system automatically computes taxes and applies any applicable discounts, penalties, and interests.

Taxpayers have the option of completing a remittance form, whose information is received by the Self Reported Tax module, or they can use the Govern Web-based eRemittance module, part of our eGovernment Services offering. The system automatically calculates the tax and associated fees, which flow to the Accounts Receivable module with just a click of a button-making it simple for you to collect payments made online or in person.

Reconcile and create audits for any tax type so that your internal/external auditors can view taxpayer records in real time.

Using the advanced search QueryBuilder tool, you can quickly and easily find a specific account using almost any search combination - narrow or broad.

"MS Govern's Self Reported Tax software has greatly improved and streamlined our sales tax remittance process. The staff at MS Govern worked diligently to ensure our satisfaction with the product."
--Julie Brown
Director of Finance
City of Durango, CO

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Tax Title/Tax Lien/Tax Sales

The Govern Tax Title, Tax Lien and Tax Sales modules give treasurers and tax collectors an efficient way to manage and track information at all stages of collection. Using a well-structured system with a direct interface to the Govern Real Property Tax Billing and Cash Collection, the Tax Title module tracks notices sent to delinquent taxpayers, generates proper fees and collection charges, maintains late charges and manages the overall process associated with account delinquency.

From the initial notification stage, all steps necessary to transfer delinquent taxes from the real estate Accounts Receivable module to the Tax Title receivable module are fully automated. The computation of charges provides enough flexibility to distinguish between first time tax title properties and subsequent tax title properties.

Accounts Receivable/Cash Collection

Cashiers and Accounting departments use the Govern Accounts Receivable/Cash Collection module to collect and record those payments. Built for flexibility, this module will reduce the time these cashiers spend on handling customer deposits, equal billing requests, and partial billings. Cashiers can accept multiple payment types within a single customer transaction and also transfer balance information, deposits and the like between cash drawer locations. The module also includes powerful reporting options and interactive access to customer accounts. This versatile module is integrated with the Govern General Ledger and Tax Billing & Collections [link]. Anything from standard cash registers and receipt printers to OCR or BAR code readers, to debit or credit cards can be used for collection.

The Cash Collection portion can be stand-alone or used in conjunction with other business modules. You can even set up "auxiliary" processing areas to handle high volume workloads in temporary or satellite areas using telecommunications.

"MS Govern provides tremendous software with amazing potential and power...the people you have are good people that care about the software and your business."
-- Peter House; Matanuska-Susitna Borough, AK
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