Sheriff of Taxingham Setup
These two things are most oft required in all dealings with the king’s tax.
One must ask the Wizard of Assessment for this scroll before setting forth on a preliminary tax journey.
What is a CAMA file?
A simple task, set the Tax Year Settings Process Status to 1 for Actuals.
What is Set Status?
A subject has sent in a letter requesting to know what they owe to the crown. This is where such information can be obtained.
What is Bill Inquiry?
Exemptions granted by the King must be applied against assessment or the principal/tax.
Truth. (Assessment based exemptions are added to the Parcel records for the Tax Year. Principal/Tax exemptions can be created in Abatement Entry.)
At the coming of the new year, this should be updated before the king's tax may be recorded.
What is the Current Assessment Year in Tax Settings?
Either of these two methods can be used by the King's Collectors to estimate preliminary tax amounts based on the parcel's prior year bill or value.
What are Half of Last Year's AR and Assessment x Rate?
Like a comrade in arms, this process must not be abandoned while it works its magic.
What is Generate AR?
A handful of bills are not high enough for his majesty Prince John. They can be increased here.
What is Bill Detail Adjustments?
Interest will start to tally after the Due Date of the installment.
Trickery. (Interest accumulates on the Day First Late or Interest Date on the installment.)
In place of 'Add,' let the user make use of this feature when preparing the Charge Codes and Tax Year Settings.
What is the Copy function?
This step is of the utmost importance and thus must be run twice, once initially and again finally.
What is the Commitment Book?
With lightning speed, this produces the proper tax amounts and set the Tax Year Settings Process Status to 7.
What is Tax Calculation?
Alas, a mistake hath been made, and Bills were created with the wrong installment dates. This program is used to remedy such a situation.
What is Bill Adjustments?
When updating the Current Assessment Year in Tax Settings before prelims, one ought to also update the Current Collection Year.
Trickery. (Only the Current Assessment Year need be updated. The Current Collection Year should be updated when the client is ready for Customers to be able to pay online [as long as their CSS or RA settings are setup to only allow payments in the Current Collection Year and prior.])
The King's Collectors have decreed these AR Categories to pertain to tax.
What are AR Categories 20-40?
With ethereal abacus, this sums and figures (calculates) the worthy preliminary tax for parcel and property.
What is Create Preliminary Taxes?
For those amongst the King's Collectors who wish to collect pence for Community Preservation and/or Water Infrastructure.
What is Apply Charges?
A payment was incorrectly recorded against a bill, leaving one installment overpaid while another installment was underpaid. This can be used to fix this.
What is Payment Redistribution?
When importing a CAMA file for prelims, Current should be chosen. When importing a CAMA file for Actuals, Both should be chosen.
These three codes doth not require copying from year to year, but should be attended and maintained.
What are Jurisdiction, Class, and Exemption Codes?
What is Generate New Tax Year?
One must update this to Actual in autumnal times.
What is the Tax Calendar Status in Tax Year Settings?
A citizen has overpaid, and greedy Prince John does not want to refund their overpayment. So instead, he asks his Collectors to do this.
What is Over Short Adjustment Processing?
When importing a Personal Property CAMA file, there are options to choose whether or not to import into Current, Tax, or Both.
Trickery. (PP CAMA Files import into Current if the Tax Year Setting Process Status is 0. They import into Tax if the Tax Year Setting Process Status is anything other than 0.)