The Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts prepares the state’s biennial budget estimate, required by the state constitution to be balanced. In addition, it administers 50 state taxes, including sales and use taxes that make up almost 25% of the state’s revenues, and processes 3.8 million tax returns a year.
“Using this system, we’re generating an additional $70 million per year for the state.”
- Ensure governance: conduct business accurately, effectively and fairly.
- Reduce incorrect and incomplete tax data.
- Identify and pursue unpaid taxes.
- Improve accuracy and fairness of billing.
- Search systems and databases to discover hidden connections between people.
- Overcome unavoidable variations in identity data.
- Balance performance and comprehensiveness of search.
- Generated additional $70 million annually in revenues.
- Identified companies that have not paid proper taxes.
- Returned more than $500 million total to date.
- Prevented pursuit of companies that have paid appropriately.