Property Tax Bill (Public Sector)

Solution: Personalized property tax bill with calculated fields

Definition:
Line data captured from the mainframe is manipulated to create the tax bill for each property owner. The VIPP application was developed in the PC-based Proform Designer, the leading GUI in Xerox’s VIPP Made Easy workflow. Proform Designer was used to calculate the various tax amounts, totals, and interest due when paid by different dates.

Business Problem:
Property tax bills are created annually by counties, towns, villages, school districts and cities. As tax rates change each year, and in some cases new taxes are added, or one-time assessments are created, agencies often assume that mainframe programmer time is required to re-create the billing format each year.

Business Process:
Instead, an employee with desktop publishing skills, such as a forms designer uses Lytrod’s Proform Designer to create the new tax bill format, and modify it each year by simply dragging and dropping the new field data, and adding new logic for the one-time assessments or new tax amounts. By cleansing and pre-sorting address data, the print run is sent to mail inserting equipment in zip code order¾saving the agency nine cents per piece or more.

Xerox Value Proposition to Customer vs. Competition:
Dynamic document construction (DDC), Xerox’s unique “just send the data” workflow, has been made far easier to implement with a range of VIPP Made Easy tools¾in this case Lytrod’s Proform Designer. VIPP offers unsurpassed production flexibility and control. By keeping data and formatting separate until the moment of production, documents run at the printer’s rated speed and can be sent on to in-line or off-line mail inserting and finishing equipment. Applications are readily enhanced to become one-to-one documents that maintain loyalty through effective customer relationship marketing.