Category Archives: Tax Collect Software

a category for the discussion of any news, tips, and best practices relevant to users and administrators of the avitar tax collect application.

Tax Collect 6.8.5 Follow-Up

Posted on November 7, 2012 by Josh

We sent out an update last week for Tax Collect.  Hopefully you’ve received it by now.  We wanted to let you know about one problem we’ve found with the update when printing tax bills in some municipalities.  But before you … Continue reading →

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Tax Collect Update 6.8.5 Is On The Way

Posted on November 1, 2012 by Josh

We will be distributing a Tax Collect software update — version 6.8.5 — in the next few days.  This update has a number of features and enhancements you all have requested over the last several months, several of which will … Continue reading →

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Weaving Your Own Safety Net with Local Backups

Posted on October 2, 2012 by Amy

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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Tax Kiosk Usage Information

Posted on September 26, 2012 by Josh

It was great to see so many of you again at last week’s conference in North Conway. During  our break-out vendor session on Tuesday, the presentation and discussion focused almost exclusively on online tax bill presentment, payment, and paperless billing. … Continue reading →

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Applying an Abatement Refund to Outstanding Taxes

Posted on September 14, 2012 by Patty

Every now and then, we receive a call questioning if an abatement (which specifies an individual tax year) can be applied to another outstanding invoice for that owner from a different tax year. For example, the assessors give you an … Continue reading →

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Ability to “Re-Notice” Parcels for Deeding

Posted on August 27, 2012 by Patty

In order to assist our tax collectors who found themselves in the position of needing to send a second Deed Notice to a taxpayer, we added the Re-Notice Previous button to the Deed Notice dialog box.  Below you’ll find a brief … Continue reading →

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Correcting a Supplemental Invoice

Posted on August 7, 2012 by Patty

Throughout the year, you will periodically need to supplement invoices (e.g. timber, current use, gravel, etc.) manually into the Tax Collect system. Unfortunately, whenever you manually enter information, errors are bound to occur. However, following these simple methods will help … Continue reading →

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Tax Bill Refresher Course

Posted on May 11, 2012 by Josh

It’s tax billing time again. So, in order to assist you, we have created a document that will walk you through the process step by step. The document is not intended to replace the information in the Tax Collect manual … Continue reading →

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Avitar Tax Collect Year End Notes

Posted on December 30, 2011 by Amy

This is intended for tax collectors with a fiscal year end of December 31st . With the year end approaching, we wanted to send you the following information to assist you with this process.

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