Re: Use Case: Linked Data for Tax Assessment

Many Thanks Luigi, I have posted your use case with the others on the wiki.

ed

On Mon Feb 16 2015 at 08:10:29 Luigi Selmi <luigiselmi@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I would like to submit the following use case:
>
> Use Case: Linked Data for Tax Assessment
>
>
> Tax assessments are based on the comparison of what is due by a citizen in
> a year for her ownership of real estates in the area administered by a
> municipality and what has been paid. The tax amount is regulated by laws
> and based on many criteria like the size of the real estate, the area in
> which it is located, its type: house, office, farm, factory and others.
> Taxpayers can save money from the original due depending on the usage of
> the estate. A family that owns the house in which they live can save the
> entire amount. Many other regulations lighten in different ways the burden
> of the tax for other categories of taxpayers. Furthermore the situation
> about a taxpayer changes over the years in relation to her properties share
> and family status. Due to the many different situations met, an employee in
> charge of performing tax assessments on behalf of a municipality must
> collect many information before being able to assert with a good degree of
> confidence that a difference between the original amount and what has been
> paid is not justified and an advice has to be sent to the taxpayer starting
> a long and expensive process to recover the difference. Currently each
> single assessment requires the employee to collect information from
> different public administrations web sites, archives, registries,
> documents. Data scattered in so many silos and formats dramatically reduce
> employees productivity and assessment effectiveness at the point that it is
> not always clear whether the money recovered is worth the cost of the
> assessment. A Linked Data approach for sharing spatial and temporal data
> would certainly increase the productivity of the assessor.
>
>
> Best,
>
> Luigi Selmi
>