Patent ID: 7249072

Claim:
A system for managing property tax information for a plurality of property tax accounts in a plurality of states, jurisdictions, and tax districts: a data storage device; an output device; a processor programmed to: maintain in the storage device a database of property tax data of properties in a plurality of states, jurisdictions and tax districts including a plurality of state identifiers and jurisdiction identifiers and a plurality of account records, wherein each account record includes an account identifier, a state identifier and an account jurisdiction identifier associated with the state identifier, wherein each of the jurisdiction identifiers are associated with a different local property tax assessor, treasurer or collector that is not a local property tax appropriating district; maintain in the storage device a plurality of tax rule template records, each tax rule template record including a template tax year identifier, a template state identifier, a template jurisdiction identifier and one or more property tax calculation parameters; receive an input requesting a report of information for a specified account record; automatically retrieve a tax rule template from the stored plurality of tax rule templates based on the tax year identifier, the state identifier and the account jurisdiction identifier of the specified account record and the template tax year identifier, the template state identifier and template jurisdiction identifier; generate the requested report using the property tax calculation parameters from the retrieved template record; and output the requested report to the output device.