Use Case: Linked Data for Tax Assessment

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