Category Archives: Assessing Software

2013 MS-1: The Squeakquel

Many of you have been receiving and installing your latest Avitar Assessing update. We want to let you know about two things regarding the MS-1 Report: a problem (that should affect only a small percentage of you and for which we … Continue reading

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2013 MS-1: The Wrath of Khan

Time for the latest episode in our ongoing MS-1 blog anthology. We have completed our testing and have ironed out a few last minute issues with the DRA’s latest MS-1 Report. We are creating the update discs right now. They … Continue reading

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2013 MS-1: Latest News

Quick update in the status of the MS-1…. We received final word from DRA earlier today on a few nuances of the XML file that we now generate to populate their new PDF form. (If you missed the earlier explanation … Continue reading

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2013 MS-1 Report

It’s August. Time once again for our favorite annual late-summer traditions: water bans and rolling black-outs, the last of the ill-conceived Hollywood blockbusters, NFL training camp injury and arrest reports, the mathematical elimination of our favorite teams from World Series … Continue reading

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Display Error for Certain Exemptions

Yesterday we received a call from a user regarding an error in Avitar Assessing that affects the amount displayed on screen for certain types of exemptions in which only a percentage of the exemption is applied. We want to alert … Continue reading

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Do You Need To Archive Your Taxable Values?

As we approach the end of the year it’s important that some of you remember to manually archive your system’s 2012 taxable values. For those of you that use Avitar Assessing in conjunction with Avitar Tax Collect, this archival will … Continue reading

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Weaving Your Own Safety Net with Local Backups

Several times a year we get a call from a user in full-on panic mode because a hard drive on their town’s server has crashed and no one seems to be able to locate a recent backup of their system’s … Continue reading

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MS-1 & Pollution Control Exemptions

Time for another episode in our dramatic and compelling web series focusing on the MS-1 Report.  Today we detail how to properly account for Pollution Control exemptions on Utility parcels.  This topic probably applies to about three of you.  If you … Continue reading

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2012 MS-1: Ghost Protocol

The saga continues… Frequent and careful readers of this blog and/or newsletter distribution will recall that last week, in announcing the upcoming Assessing update, we stated that the “DRA did not make any significant changes to the format of the … Continue reading

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Assessing Update 3.6.5 and the MS-1

We will be distributing the next update of Avitar Assessing on Monday, August 13th so look for your disc in the mail in the coming days.  This update was a long time in the making as it includes some pretty … Continue reading

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