The Big Picture of Billing

Billing is one method used to establish tax assessments for bill-based tax types. Examples of these tax types include real property and vehicle taxes. Many obligation types will not use billing functionality.

Fastpath:

Refer to Defining Obligation Types for a description of the different obligation types.

The billing process is used when the tax authority has the information required to calculate and assess tax for a taxpayer, in contrast to tax types where the taxpayer must file a tax return.

Overdue processing is used to govern collections processing, including the sending of collections letters to taxpayers with past due obligations.

Fastpath:

Refer to Overdue Financial Obligations for more information on overdue processing.

The topics in this section provide background information about a variety of billing topics.

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