e-Gov Project

Purpose
The system gives tax payers a possibility to use a modern, efficient and secure way of filing taxes and reduces the administrative burden on the Public Revenue Office (PRO).

Application functionalities
- Easy-to-use and secure solution enabling 24/7 communication with Public Revenue Office
- System confirms if the tax return is accepted and correct
- System informs the user on any corrections that should be made and provides the correction form
- Provides various types of reports and reviews on the submitted forms and reports on the status.

Specific Benefits
- Substantially reduction of the administrative cost both for PRO and the tax payers
- Reduces the risk of human errors in filling of the tax returns
- Faster and more efficient processing of the large volume of data
- Ensure transparent and efficient collection of taxes

Status
Initially the 131 largest companies are invited by the Public Revenue Office to file their taxes through the e-Tax application. 90% are already registered in the system and 70% of their monthly tax returns are submitted on-line.
The system is flexible enough to be expanded to additional taxpayers in line with approval by PRO

First phase of the development of e-Tax Services software application for the Public Revenue Office was accomplished successfully - the prototype was presented on Friday, 4 November 2005. In less than two hours in the premises of the PRO the developer SEAVUS with assistance from their counterparts PRO IT Department, explained the features and specific benefits for each user. The employees of the PRO, future key users, followed the presentation with interest learning how the system will overtake great burden of their everyday work. General Director of the PRO was present as well as USAID and IMPACT Project representatives.

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Maja Dimovska-Leova, Head of Tax Department, PRO
Zdravko Sami, USAID
Petra Miteva, PRO General Director
Jovce Plastinovski, Deputy Chief of Party, IMPACT

USAID e-Gov project and SEAVUS, a Macedonian software developer, signed a contract on developing an e-Tax Services application on Friday, October 14th 2005.

The system was developed for the Public Revenue Office (PRO) and is planned initially to be used by the 130 biggest tax payers. So far 90 of the large tax payers are registered into the system and submit their tax returns on line.

This application is a typical example on how administrative burdens will be significantly reduced both for the private users, the taxpayers and the state administration, the PRO. The processing of this enormous amount of data will be speeded up and above all be done in a secure way human beings are hardly able to match.

e-Tax services will help stimulating the economy in Macedonia as well as ensure the transparent and efficient collection of taxes.