e-ris (Inland Revenue Intelligence Suite)

The Bull Tax Administration System was originally developed in 1997 and has undergone several evolutions since then, with Release 3 being available in late 2003. This new release will further enhance the functionalities already provided, and most importantly – provide the use of engines to drive those domains which most frequently change within a Revenue Authority.

e-ris provides a total solution to the Revenue Authority tax administration needs. Its flexibility, ease of customisation via the engines and flex-form components permit the Revenue Authority to become the true “owners” of the system – reducing their dependence on contracted suppliers or out-sourced maintenance services. The use of XML permits the application to be FULLY integrated into any other open system.

e-ris key features include:

• Comprehensive taxpayer management facilities. Exercise total control over registrations and verification of registration against all tax types – automatic cross-checking between tax types to track failure to register for all compulsory types of tax.
  
  
• Detailed statistical analysis of the taxpayer base. Statistical analysis of taxpayers in terms of geographic location, industry, activity, revenue and payment trends. Greatly facilitates tax table and rate planning.
  
  
• Comprehensive Tax Modules. Caters for income tax, employee tax, withholding taxes, sales tax, value added tax, Zakat, royalties and non-residents tax. Fully customisable to permit addition of new tax types via the tax rules engine.
  
  
• Automated Assessments. Allows the reallocation of resources from non-revenue generating tasks to the audit and enforcement department.
  
  
• On-Line submission of returns. Allow taxpayers to submit returns on-line, speeding up return delays and eliminating the need for the re-capture of data.
  
  
• Exceptionally powerful enforcement module. Provides a powerful tax audit tool. Automatic selection of audit cases based on financial and economic variables.
  
  
• Total security and access control. Exercise total control over levels of access, allow separation of the data entry and approval process, limit tax officials access based on sound internal audit and control principles.
  
  
• Total financial control. Allows both accrual and cash based accounting with full general ledger and control accounts based on the double entry accounting system. Issue taxpayers with monthly statements of account consolidated for each tax type. Fully flexible management of interest and penalties.
  
  
• Complete cash office and enforcement module. Includes a comprehensive cash office module to manage cash collections, reconciliation’s to fiscus and commercial banks, on-line transfers and collections of other non-tax payments on behalf of other government departments.
  
  
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