Federal Ministry of Finance

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Federal Ministry of Finance

• Directorate General VIInformation Technology
  (IT)
• Unit VI/2

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Organigram of the Ministry
IT-Sektion
Secretary of State
Government Advisor for Capital Markets
Change Group
Directorate General I
Directorate General II
Directorate General VI
Directorate General III
Directorate General IV
Corporate Operations and Services
Economic Policy and Financial Markets
Taxes and Customs
InformationTechnology
Budget and Public Finances
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Main focus of the IT Directorate General
SUPPORT FOR OTHER MINISTRIES
FINANCE APPLICATIONS
HORIZONTAL APPLICATIONS
IT-MANAGEMENT

• IT support for the ministries of social
  affairs, of economic affairs and of justice
• commercial register
• insolvencies and auctionsindex
• central trade register

• accountancy and payment
• transactions for the local tax offices
• IT support for tax offices and for
  auditing of big companies
• FINANZOnline
• real estate information system
• IT support for customs
• documentation systems

• organisation and automation of federal
  accountancy
• organisation of federal employees
  remuneration and of the personnel
  infomation system

• principle matters
• data security and privacy
• office automation
• IT infrastrucure
• IT budget, contracts and procurement
• organisation of proedures for planning,
  controlling and quality assurance
• IT-audit and control authirity

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Units within the IT Directorate General
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Competences of the IT Directorate General ...

• strategic issues concerning IT within the
  Ministry
• organisation of IT procedures for the finance and
  also for budget, budgetary clearing and personnel
  affairs of the Federal Administration
• IT infrastructure matters
• automation of Finance and Customs adminstration
• IT support for horizontal procedures (budget and
  personnel affairs)

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... Competences of the IT Directorate General

• organisation of accountancy and cash matters for
  the Federal Adminstration
• e-government for the ministry
• European integraton issues with regard to IT
• IT support for other ministries

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• Federal Ministry of Finance
• employees 14,468
• budget 2003 2,377 m (IT-Directorate 105.8
  m)
• IT-equipment 14,019 PCs (including 3,384
  notebooks)
• 119 application server
• 350 networkserver

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main focus projects ...

• budgetary clearing and settlement with SAP R/3
• replacement of the old system dating from
  Seventies with an international standard software
  solution
• reorganisation and optimisation of accountacy
  procedures within the entire federal
  adminstration
• personnel management with SAP R/3
• replacement of the old IT procedures
• nationally standardised personnel management
• end-to-end support and optimisation of business
  procedures

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... main focus projects ...

• taxes and duties informationsystem
• shared basic data
• standardised view of all fiscal procedures for
  the employees and integration of all procedures
  in one system
• tax collection
• tax assessment
• auditing of companies
• real estate information system
• family allowances
• EU information exchange on VAT
• fees and transfers taxes
• criminal proceedings files
• ...

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... main focus projects ...

• FINANZOnline
• go through the official channels with one mouse
  click
• electronic data transfer of Austrian Finance
  administration based on Web technology
• online retrieval, update and transmission of tax
  data (e.g. query of tax account, requests for
  refunding)
• electronic transmission of tay declarations
• Redesign Finanz
• reorganisation of the fiscal adminstration
  procedures, taking e-government aspects into
  account

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... main focus projects ...

• Zahlungsverkehr
• cash dispender for debit- und credit cards
• mobile cash dispenders
• quick-automat
• imprinters
• cashpoint programs
• electronic/Internet banking
• payment via Internet
• federal credit card
• evaluation of new methods of payment for
  e-government applications
• e-payment

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... main focus projects ...

• elektronic administrative records (ELAK)
• design, organisation and operation of a national
  standardised solution
• replacement of paper records
• communications between ministries extensively on
  an electronic basis
• nes computerised transit system (NCTS)
• pan-European operation of customs declarations
  for dispatch procedures

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... main focus projects ...

• electronic customs declarations (e-Zoll.at)
• standardisation of procedures
• paperless procedure
• integration of a risk analysis
• low data collection for the public authority
• standardised interface (XML, UN/EDIFACT)
• fully automated operation via timer
• utilisation of homodeneous codes

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main focus for other ministries ...

• central trade register
• operation of a data base allowing public queries
  via Internet
• commercial register
• operation of a data base allowing public querie
  via Internet (e.g. 3.5 m queries per year)
• insolvenicies and auctions index
• official announcements via internet of juridical
  decress and of sales by auctin of real estate

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... main focus for other ministries ...

• electronic legal relations
• electronic filing of mandates and transmission to
  the court (e.g. 4.6 m electronic requests per
  year)
• automated fee collection
• electronic delivery of summons and executions to
  the applicants (e.g. 2.1 m per year)
• recognised with the good practice award

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... main focus for other ministries ...

• unemployment insurance
• computation, payment and clearing of unemployment
  benefits and different allowances, aids and
  grants, e.g. for maternity leaves
• annual handling of current claims, subsequent
  payments and back-payments for approximately
  851,000 persons
• operation of a datat warhouse for statistics,
  extrapolations and model caclulations, and as a
  substitute to paper output

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... main focus for other ministries ...

• pensions
• provision services
• computation, payment and clearing of benefits in
  accordance with the laws on victims of war,
  victims of crime etc.
• employment of disabled persons
• computation, collection and clearing of charges
  and compensations in accordance with the law on
  employment of disabled persons supervision of
  employers obligations
• registration and administration of data
  concerning disabled persons and state-funded
  employers

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... main focus for other ministries

• automation of judiciary procedure
• country-wide IT support for all courts and
  prosecution authorities
• notification procedures
• automated compliance with information duties
  towards other authorities (e.g.fiscal
  administration, social security bodies, Chambers,
  central trade register and commercial register)

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IT for tax authorities ....

• IT for tax authority starts 1970
• Main principlesdecentralise data collecting done
  by tax officerscentral data processingcentral
  databasesIT for the back office
• IT push the reorganization of the tax authorities

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... IT for tax authorities ...

• Online services since 1997
• Main principlesClosed user group (tax
  consultants)self user-administration of the tax
  consultants direct access to the relevant
  databasesclearing house

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... IT for tax authorities

• FINANZOnline for citizens and business (G2C, G2B)
  since 2003
• Main principlesInternetdirect access to the
  relevant databasesintegration of the back
  officeelectronic declarations (income tax,
  ...)electronic posting for notices and answers
  same procedures electronic declarations
  and declarations on paper

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Finanzreform

• Reorganisation of the tax authoritiesproject
  start 2001rollout Start 2004
• Main objectivesnew face to costumersorganisation
  for E-GovernmentNew Public Management

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Hauptseite
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Abfragen Steuerkonto ...
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... Admin - Benutzerverwaltung ...
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• IT development requires new organisations
• No differences for tax payers who use Internet to
  those who traditional medias

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Informations
IT-Sektion
further informations Federal Ministry of
Finance http//www.bmf.gv.at