Fiscal Control Supporting IT System “ISKOS”

The overall objective of the project is as follows:

  • adaptation of Polish tax administration to EU standards in the scope of tax collection and tax control,
  • improvement of the work of the Polish tax administration through: implementation of the new activity management structure based on the results, more efficient tax collection, uniform application of tax law, use of electronic tools to coordinate cooperation within tax and customs administration.

The ISKOS System has multi-tier architecture and operates in MoF WAN. It is dedicated for 4 700 users working in 41 locations (MoF, 16 Fiscal Control Offices, 24 non-resident offices).
PHASE 1, 07.2004 – 08.2005
The specific results of this phase were:

  • fiscal audits support by IT system,
  • increase of fiscal audit efficiency,
  • enabling of selection areas with high potential risk of tax regulations violation,
  • strengthening of audit planning by implementation of uniform methods of audit plan creation.

The fiscal control IT System is fully integrated and satisfies both the functional requirements of the fiscal control service and support tasks defined in the provisions of the Fiscal Control Law. In addition, the system makes it possible to monitor, control and assess these tasks to provide more effective management of the fiscal control work. It accelerates and unifies central and local reporting and enhances the efficiency of the fiscal control office procedures and provides standard management information for the Ministry of Finance executives.
The system was implemented in the seat of the Ministry of Finance and in 16 fiscal control offices including their branches. Implementation was preceded by pilot implementation in 2 selected tax audit offices (Wrocław and Poznań) with their branches. Software for data migration from the KARTA system exploited so far in fiscal control offices was executed.
The System users will be:

  • analysts, employees of the Fiscal Control Department,
  • analysts, employees of control planning units in fiscal control offices,
  • persons introducing data regarding control,
  • inspectors of fiscal control and employees carrying on control acts (mobile user),
  • IT specialists within the scope of System administration.

PHASE 2, 11.2005 – 09.2006
The subject of the contract was further development and extension of the Fiscal Control Supporting IT System „ISKOS”.
Main objectives of the Project were the following:

  • more efficient control over public spendings: subsidies, grants, EU funds;
  • more efficient control of international trade;
  • increased security of data exchange within Fiscal Administration.

Within this Technical Assistance project, the ISKOS custom application was developed, additional software tools were integrated and the analytical data warehouse was further expanded.
Further development of ISKOS custom application.

ISKOS application is a turn-key solution developed by Comarch. It supports the operations of fiscal control authorities: integrates data concerning fiscal control subjects, taxes and controls that are gathered in MoF central data warehouse, supports risk analysis and identification of control subjects, supports the control planning process and electronic document flow within fiscal administration. The application was developed by extending the functionalities of existing modules and developing new ones.
The modules that were enhanced:

  • Data loading module – enabling data loading from additional source systems and introducing Universal Data Import Interface, which enables loading unrestricted data;
  • Document management module – introducing document search features, tracking document flow, register and classification of binding tax law interpretations;
  • Control support module – EU funds control registration features, registering control activities lists, gathering data concerning control subjects from particular areas;
  • Reporting module – introducing report generation and delivery features;
  • Administration module – extending system dictionaries and access granting system.

The modules that were developed from scratch:

  • Management and coordination module – supporting management functions by introducing a mechanism of task assignment and execution control;
  • Control subject central base – register of subjects from National Taxpayers Register, register of special subjects, mechanism of subject information subscription;
  • Training-information platform – enables conducting remote trainings and Internet information service, based on Modle e-learning platform ;
  • Control activities support module – tools supporting control-analysis activities on electronic data gathered from Finance-Accounting systems;
  • Public Information Bulletin module – Public Information Bulletins of Fiscal Control Offices and Fiscal Control Department, based on CMS – Drupal platform;
  • Internet search module – searching the Internet and gathering search results.

Implementation and integration of specialist tools.
OCEAN GenRap – software tool enabling the analysis of taxpayer’s electronic finance-accounting data and generating corresponding reports. It increases the effectiveness of fiscal control and reduces the time of control duration.
SPSS Solution Publisher – is part of SPSS Clementine toolkit, it enables exporting the “analytical model” into the file, and executing this model on a mobile workstation within Clementine Runtime environment. Analytical models are used for basic analyses on finance-accounting data.
Argos – a custom application developed by Comarch, designed to search and monitor information in the Internet. It supports monitoring of electronic trade and fighting the “black economy” in the Internet trade.
Within the project a training for 265 Fiscal Administration Personnel was held (basic system users, risk analysts, system administrators).

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