When the trade taxation department of India's largest state wanted to improve its services and increase its revenues by the use of IT, CMC provided the solution

The product
iComitrax: Computerised Information System for Trade Tax
An end-to-end solution for a government commercial taxation department to improve its services by the use of IT

The client
The Uttar Pradesh State Trade Taxes Department
The trade tax department is the organisation that collects tax on the sale or purchase of goods at a certain point of sale, as well as purchase of goods throughout the state

CMC was awarded a turnkey project by the UP trade taxes department to streamline its tax collections by setting up an online, integrated, computerised system. The project included consulting, procurement, delivery of hardware, networking, system software, application development, systems integration and maintenance.

The application includes the following modules:

	Dealer information system
	Returns processing system
	Dealer assessment system
	Tax accounting system
	Arrears recovery system
	Law and judicial system
	Industrial exemptions
	Personnel information system
	Management information system

The scope of the project was the state-wide implementation of the application across all their locations.

Technical architecture
The application is on a client-server architecture, with a distributed database at each circle office location. The data is consolidated at the regional office and the head office. The platform is Oracle 7 as the back-end and PowerBuilder as the front-end.

Benefits

	Trade tax officials can perform their duties on time, with ease and reliability
	Easy accessibility to information
	Systematic approach and planning