Patent ID: 8266023

Claim:
A computer-readable storage medium tangibly embodying an information model for managing party and property information from multiple data sources in a single data structure, the information model comprising: a plurality of legal party objects including first and second legal party objects to represent first and second legal entities, respectively, the first and second legal entities being at least one of an individual, an organization and a public agency; a plurality of revenue-object objects to represent a plurality of taxable items, wherein the first and second legal entities have a tax responsibility with respect to at least one of the plurality of taxable items represented by at least one of the plurality of revenue-object objects; a plurality of legal party role objects including first and second legal party role objects to designate entity role types and to connect the first and second legal party objects respectively to the at least one of the plurality of revenue-object objects, whereby each of the first and second legal party role objects maintains a relationship between the first and second legal party objects and the at least one of the plurality of revenue-object objects; a plurality of objects associated with one of the plurality of revenue-object objects including a situs address role object and a tax authority group role object; a situs address object associated with the situs address role object to represent the physical address of a taxable item; and a plurality of objects associated with the tax authority group role object including a tax authority group object to represent at least one tax authority that levies a tax against a taxable item, and a tax authority group history object to represent a change to the at least one tax authority, wherein the tax authority group history object is associated with an annexation object.