SAMSID

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  • Manage special district annual assessments
  • Manage improvement district assessments paid over a number of years
  • Calculations can be serial, amortized, or manually entered
  • Maintenance assessments can be rolled over year to year
  • Billing can be transferred by file to your billing entity

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Special Assessment Manager (SAM) and Special Improvement District (SID) enable you to manage both maintenance assessments and improvement districts. If you only have special assessments then the SAM portion of the application is available by itself. Upgrade to the full SAMSID version whenever a special improvement district is created.

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Calculation Methods

  • Proportional units such as area, taxable value, or frontage
  • Flat amount
  • Fixed rate per proportional unit
  • Assessent District only – Rate Codes, eg.,  different rates for residential, commercial or industrial

Receipting

Take full or partial payments. Assessments can be receipted individually or through a batch.

Prepayment Calculation

Easily calculate principle payoffs. Option to take partial payments on principal balance.

Penalty and Interest Assessments on Delinquent Taxes

System calculates based on date of payment and percentage entered by user.

Interest Calculations

  • Serial (Principal amount per payment equal over life of SID)
  • Amortized (Payment amount equal over life of SID)
  • Summary Finances (principal and interest payment are set up for SID and individual properties calculated from master schedule)
  • Parcel Finances (principal and interest payments are set up for individual parcels

Integration

Bill and receipt entries are journalized to Accounting. Integration with Cash Receipting enables centralized payments.

Form Letters

Provides merge data fields so you can use your word processor to create custom delinquent, assessment, or other types of notices.

Recalculate SID Schedule

If variable interest or partial principal payments, recalculates remaining unbilled principal and interest amortization table based on new rate.

Import/Export

  • Export to County
    • Billed Assessments
  • Import from county
    • Current Receipts collected
    • Annual name/address/taxID
    • Irrigated Acres
  • Import new Assessment and SID information from another source, CSV format
  • Standard files are compatible with BMS county Tax system.
  • When changes to any of the standard files are required, work will be billed at our standard programming rate

Payment History Query

Information available onscreen by assessment.

Tax Query

  • Property information
  • Tax amount by due date
  • Status (paid, unpaid)
  • Assessments to be paid
  • Set interest date to calculate Tax payments

Search for Properties using:

Tax Identification, Name, In Care of Name, Geographic Code, Township/Range/Section
or Subdivision.

Capitalize Interest

When bond payments are due in advance of assessments being billed, interest may be capitalized over the life of the SID.

Built-in reports

SAMSID reports are easy to generate and help you make informed decisions.

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SAMSID enables you to selectively tailor reports. Choose from a large selection of built-in variations, all of which can be previewed on screen, sent to a file or printer, or emailed to any number of recipients.

Name, Address, Legal Reports 

  • Name & Address List
  • Name & In Care Of Name List
  • Name & Legal Listing

Assessment Reports

  • Assessment Detail
  • Assessment Detail by Rate Code
  • Assessment Notice
  • Assessed Value Recap
  • Subdivision Assesment Detail
  • Subdivision Assessed and Total Values
  • Subdivision Detail for Assessed and
    Total Values

Receipt Reports

  • Receipt Detail
  • Daily Receipt Summary
  • Receipt History

Uncollected Taxes: 

  • Uncollected Detail Report
  • Uncollected Reconciliation Report
  • Recap by SA/SI#
  • Recap by Year

Accounting Reports 

  • JV Summary
  • Billing JV Listing
  • Receipt JV Listing
  • SAM/SID Accounting Reconciliation Report

SID Reports

  • SID Roll Book
  • SID Payoff Detail Report
  • SID Payoff Summary Report by Taxpayer
  • SID Payoff Summary Report by SID/Taxpayer
  • SID Finance Schedule Summary Report
  • SID Finance Schedule Detail Report
  • SID Assessment Summary
  • SID Unbilled Assessments by Fund, Year
  • Deferred Principle Balances
    • Detail by SID
    • Summary by SID
    • Summary by Taxpayer
  • Deferred Property Amounts
    • Balances by SID
    • Balances by Fund

    Other Reports

    • Certified Balance Proof Report
    • Billing Detail
    • Tax/Assessment Reconciliation
    • Tax Statements
    • Mailing Labels
    • Tax Roll Book
    • Form Letters
     

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