The tax management offering leverages enterprise service-oriented architecture and is built on the standards-based SAP NetWeaver platform. It uses SAP NetWeaver Business Intelligence to integrate information from various government IT systems. The system is designed to help the tax bureau and its constituents monitor, review, analyze and forecast tax payments more efficiently and accurately.
The Xicheng District National Tax Bureau is responsible for 38 of the country’s 180 top enterprises that account for over 70% of all income tax revenues in Beijing. Historically, tax payers have been largely governed by different local tax authorities and the central Xicheng District had no access to information about the operations and financial accounting of companies and their employees outside its local jurisdiction.
Additionally, Xicheng District tax authorities had to manually adjust tax source statistics of up to several trillion yuan. This adjustment impacted the accuracy and reliability of payment and economic statistics and created a large amount of work for both the tax authorities and enterprises.
To overcome these difficulties and streamline and standardize the tax management process, the Xicheng District National Tax Bureau turned to SAP.
The new tax system integrates various data sources such as external information and data sheets through interactive forms, and combines an analysis function with actual tax-related business. These new functions enable better data and decision support management, expand business management capabilities, improve tax evaluation, analysis and forecasting and allow remote user access via internet portals.
With the increasing impact of globalization on China’s economy and politics, the Chinese government at all levels is confronted with various political, business and IT challenges, said Thomas Shirk, president of SAP global public services. SAP offers the Xicheng District National Tax Bureau a robust, industry-leading tax and revenue management solution that can adapt and grow with the bureau as it confronts these new 21st century challenges, while maximizing the public value that the bureau delivers to its constituents.
