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• HTE Tax System Highlights • Specific highlights of the HTE Tax system and how they relate to the City of La Porte are: / The system is fully integrated with the system the City dust selected to serve as the City's central financial and administrative computer system. As such, the system will be able to interact with the following common applications: Cash receipts will be automatically incorporated with the main system, thereby reducing triplicity that is caused by the current system. In other words, when payments are received, all the accounts will be automatically updated when the batch is processed. In our current environment, we have to manually create the entries and then have to have someone manually post them to the General Ledger. ~ Billings will automatically create the required entries to be posted to the main system, which also relieves work load. ~ The Tax System will be connected to other systems of interest, for example, if we are looking at a tax account and need to know if there are any mowing liens or other activity on the property, we will be able to look it up without leaving our desk. This is possible because of the connecting link between the Tax System and the Code Enforcement System that we purchased. / We will be able to have an unlimited number of years of property valuations. When we visited another HTE Tax site, we found they had all tax information on their system going back to 1989, which is when they loaded their system. Under our current system, we have to wipe out the existing data each year to load the new data. All we have on the system is the payment history and any delinquent taxes due. To expand further, we know a tax was due on a property in 1990 but we can not tell the appraised value or if any exemptions were connected with the property. The greatest benefit to us of this system is when we receive a correction roll on a prior year account when they had previously paid the tax. When this happens, we do not have any detail on the system to make the changes to. It is very difficult to balance the system. The HTE system keeps all information. / The system allows multiple values for multiple entities, all under the same account number. With the current system, we have to manually create new accounts for a large group of accounts that have different values for the different entities under one HCAD account number.