Patent ID: 7801780

Claim:
A system for managing property tax information for a plurality of real estate parcels in a plurality of jurisdictions and tax districts: a data storage device; an output device; and a processor programmed to: maintain in the storage device a database of property tax data of properties in a plurality of jurisdictions and tax districts in a state including a plurality of parcel records in a plurality of jurisdictions and tax districts, each parcel record including a parcel identifier for identifying a parcel of the plurality of real estate parcels, a tax year identifier for identifying the tax year applicable to the parcel, and a jurisdiction identifier for identifying a jurisdiction within the state in which the parcel is located, maintain in the storage device a plurality of tax rule templates wherein a tax rule template of the plurality of templates is associated with a tax assessing or billing entity, the template defines tax rules specific to the associated entity, and the template is linked to at least one of a state record for the state in which the parcel is located, a jurisdiction record for a jurisdiction within the state in which the parcel is located or a system master record, wherein the plurality of templates includes a valuation template for defining data entry rules, and an appeals template for defining property tax appeal information, receive an input requesting a report of information for a specified parcel record, automatically retrieve a tax rule template from the stored plurality of tax rule templates based on the tax year identifier and the jurisdiction identifier of the specified parcel, generate the requested report using the property tax rules from the retrieved template, and output the requested property tax report to the output device.