ARCtax is a comprehensive property tax billing, collection, and settlement system designed for county treasurers and auditors in the State of Ohio. ARCtax software is developed using the Microsoft .Net Framework® and SQL Server® technologies and is highly integrated with ARCama and Microsoft Excel®. ARCtax enables tax officials to efficiently and effectively manage collection activities for real property, special assessments, and mobile and manufactured homes. All functionality is online, real-time using a “thin client” client-server architecture and web-based reporting. ARCtax provides the following core functionality:

• Creation of annual tax rolls, settlement periods and billing schedules
• Maintenance of political units and levies
• Automatic import of tax rates from the State
• Special assessment project maintenance
• Special assessment project-parcel installment generation
• Homestead application maintenance and reporting
• Real Estate and MMH tax calculation for first and second half bills
  • Class I and II equalization, 10% State, 2.5% Owner Occupied, and Homestead reductions
• Tax bill extraction for third party or in-house printing
• One-off tax bill printing
• Payment entry and application for single payments, batch payments, and escrow institutions
  • Capability to choose items to pay for a parcel or use standard precedence rules
• Prepayment agreement maintenance, installment posting, and mass application
• 1st and 2nd half penalty processing and reporting
• August and December interest processing and reporting
• Delinquency notice generation and printing
• Delinquent parcel advertising to local media
• Delinquent parcel certification to county prosecutor
• Delinquent tax contracts with flexible terms and conditions
• Comprehensive parcel information screens:
  • Current CAMA information
  • Parcel history by tax year
  • Complete tax bill breakdowns for current and prior years
  • Comprehensive transaction history screens with detail drilldowns
• Annual refund and value reduction reporting
• Adjustment screens for refunds, value changes, and amount corrections
• Cash advances to political units
• Settlement processing and reporting