MIPS Inc. has created an Online Tax Collection System for paying taxes on the Internet. This service is not just
for the benefit of taxpayers paying their taxes online
via credit card, but for anyone needing to know a
property’s tax status (abstractors, Realtors, etc). We
put both the real estate and the personal property taxes
online. The taxpayer can pay real estate back taxes
online as well. Up to 5 years back! All interest and
advertising fees are calculated and added to the payment
automatically.
This Internet Collection System front-end was written to
work with any vendor’s real estate system. We install a
program on your system that will send payment
information to our servers late at night. So every
morning the records on the Internet are current.
The county's data can also be sent to us nightly via
FTP.
We have priced this collection system very
competitively. Counties with less than 30,000 parcels
are charged from $60 to $150 per month depending on
their size. For counties with more than 30,000 parcels,
the rate would be negotiated. We have redundant servers
in place so if one server goes down, the other can be
activated to keep the online records available. Here are
some of the features of the Nebraska Taxes Online
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- Search property by statement, parcel, legal,
name, or address
- Graph value history
- Graph tax history
- Graph levy history
- Redundant Servers
- Dedicated T1 broadband connection for the web
servers
- Pay first half, second half, or both halves with
credit card
- Automatically calculates interest on back taxes
(up to 5 years back)
- Automatically calculates advertising fee
- Prevents current taxes being paid before back
taxes
- Indicates bankruptcies and tax sales in red
- Tax collection info updated from counties
nightly
- Accepts VISA, MasterCard, Discover, American
Express
- Real Time online reporting (payments visible
within seconds)
- Capability to view or print collection reports
by user chosen sort order
- Report information is downloadable in many
formats (Excel, Access, and comma delimited - CSV)
- Payments also available via 800 number
(Multilingual Operators)
- Credit card funds are transferred to County
within 48 hours
- Low flat convenience fee of 2.49% (more on this
below)
- Option for having Assessor's Appraisal Data
online as well
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The convenience fee is the charge a
taxpayer pays for the credit card processing. We
have negotiated the 2.49% convenience fee rate and you
will find it is one of the lowest around. For
example, if your taxes were $500.00, then convenience
fee would be $12.45. Your credit card would be
billed $512.45 (taxes plus convenience fee). 100%
of this fee goes directly to our credit card agent for
processing the transaction. The only revenue MIPS
Inc. receives is our fixed monthly fee
the county pays. Some counties are trying to get
the county monthly fee to be paid by the commercial
companies that would heavily use the lookup capabilities
of the Nebraska Taxes Online system. If you can
get our nominal monthly fee paid for, then the county
would get credit card processing and online lookup for
free.
Not ready for collecting online tax
payments via credit card? We offer the Nebraska
taxes Online service in two flavors. The first
choice is with online lookup capabilities allowing
credit card payments. The second is online lookup
only, without accepting credit card payments. In
the lookup only mode the user can do everything up to
the point of selecting taxes to be paid. We gray
out the payment selection boxes and display a message
that the taxes are available for lookup only.
Nebraska Taxes Online was written to
be very clean and straight forward. It only takes a
couple minutes to make a payment. We only put online the
pertinent tax information needed to complete the
collection process. Counties in Texas, Colorado, and
South Carolina reviewed our Nebraska Taxes Online system
and were impressed. With our online collection system
there is no way the taxpayer can pay the wrong amount.
All taxes and fees are filled in for the taxpayer and
cannot be modified. |
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