1.PACS Appraisal 8.0.49.09
PACS Appraisal 8.0.49.09
Updates
Help | Description of Update |
Appraisal – Personal Property
63441 | Field review cards were not printing personal property sub segments after page 2. |
Appraisal – PTD
63661 | For the PTD export, |
Appraisal – Reports/Letters
63321 | Exemptions were not being included in the Totals Report when the New for Year check box was selected in the Exemption dialog box (accessible from an entity record > Tax Rates/Exemptions/PI Schedule tab > Details > Tax Rates/Exemptions tab > Details). |
Collections – Collections Data Export
62736 | Some properties were being exported twice in the Collections Export. |
Collections – Refunds
59309 | The Refunds Due report was displaying the bill owner name as the payor instead of the property owner name. |
Systems General
61089 | There were middle tier errors generated while running profiles on the cost calibration component. |
2.PACS Appraisal 8.0.49.08
PACS Appraisal 8.0.49.08
Collections-only Properties (for House Bill 1010)
Shared properties are no longer visible in PACS Appraisal. They are now marked as collections-only so that tax offices can collect for them as needed. This has been implemented in PACS by applying a collections-only flag to shared properties.
Homestead Cap Value Breakdown (for House Bill 438)
In the homestead cap calculation routine, the homestead cap percentage has been changed from 30% to 10% comply with House Bill 438.
You can view the homestead cap percentage by clicking the HS Cap Loss button on the Values tab of a property record.
PTD Processing
A new PTD land type code, QLND for quarantined land, is available for your appraisal district to map to in the Land: Type Code dialog box (Tools > Code file Maintenance > Land > Type Codes).
In addition, the following reports have been modified to comply with state changes issued for 2008:
- City Property Value Report
- County Property Value Report
- School Property Value Report
- School Tax Limitation Report
What’s new in PACS Documentation
Documentation for the following functional areas is provided with this release:
- End of Year Processing (Revised)
- Lease Records and Property Management (Revised)
- PTD Electronic Sales and Property Transfer Submissions (Revised)
Updates
Help |
Description of Update |
Appraisal – General
42358 |
In building permit reports and worksheets, properties and/or comments were being associated with incorrect permits. This has been corrected. |
50413 |
BPP subsegments or their totals were extending beyond the bottom of the page. When this occurred the grand total would also sometimes be incorrect. These issues have been corrected. |
58593 |
The Property Agent Wizard has been enhanced so that you can tab up or down from Back, Finish and Cancel buttons. |
62914 |
When viewing bills on the Tax Due page, an error was displayed because a column was not defined. This has been corrected. |
63051 |
The Comp Grid View Only user right is new and restricts a user to viewing and printing a grid. |
Appraisal Card
61080 |
When printing appraisal cards by entity (Activities > Appraisal Card > Print by Entity), PACS crashed when entities were moved to and from the available and selected entities boxes. This has been corrected. |
ARB/Inquiry
55517 |
Users were able to modify property types selected on a previously established ARB hearing. This has been corrected. |
60147 |
Confidential comments have been added as read-only text in the Appraiser Meeting view of ARB protests. |
Exemptions
59859 |
DV exemptions were not being displayed from the Tax Summary button on the Entity-Exmpt tab. DV exemptions are now associated with every entity for every year. This build loads the DV exemption data for all entities. |
Export
59218 |
A runtime error sometimes resulted from the appraisal ownership export. This has been corrected. |
62322 |
The appraisal export did not get past populating tables. This has been corrected. |
Forms
60754 |
Ag applications were not printing in duplex correctly; PACS displayed an error stating that no sort option is available. This has been corrected. |
GIS
62981 |
Due to a new system check for collections-only properties, it was not possible to click a road in the GIS viewer and pan or zoom in and out. The issue has been corrected; the check is now limited to collections-only properties and no longer involves panning or zooming. |
Marshall & Swift
57929 |
The method and set of Marshall & Swift occupancy codes which do not require HVAC or exterior wall components have been refined. |
Ownership
59058 |
Adding an agent to a property did not work when the property was created through the Split Property Wizard. This has been fixed. |
PTD
59695 |
The Totals report and the PTD export have been modified to report the totally exempt charitable exemption amount under the category X. |
Reports/Letters
52245 |
The error “Line 1: Incorrect syntax near” was displayed when printing the preliminary roll for a large number of entities. This has been corrected. |
52686 |
When the certified roll was printed, a negative value was displayed in the tax amount row. This has been corrected. |
52769 |
When the certified roll was printed, a negative value was displayed in the tax amount row. This has been corrected. |
52789 |
The Legal Acres Verification Report now performs fourth decimal place rounding for land acres and total land acres values. |
Sales
58512 |
An issue with the PTD Sale Submission Export has been corrected. |
TNT
52632 |
The Small Taxing Unit check box has been added to the General tab of entity records. When this check box is selected for a TNT export, the entity is exported with a “small taxing unit” taxing unit type. |
3.PACS Collections 8.0.49.08
PACS Collections 8.0.49.08
Collections-only Properties (for House Bill 1010)
Shared properties are no longer visible in PACS Appraisal. They are now marked as collections-only so that tax offices can collect for them as needed. This has been implemented in PACS by application a collections-only flag to shared properties.
What’s New in PACS Documentation
Documentation for the following functional areas is provided with this release:
- Supplement Processing Collections (Revised)
Updates
Help |
Description of Update |
Collections – General
51159 |
A SQL error, which occurred on printing tax statements for ownership transfers if the supplement number for the property did not match the bill supplement number, has been corrected. |
51862 |
The litigation status code was not being displayed in the property summary screen. This has been corrected. |
63030 |
Bills with a supplement tax year that was not in property_val were not being displayed in the Statement View of the Tax Due tab on a property record. This has been corrected. |
Bills
55939 |
Ownership changes for printing corrected tax statements are now selected using deed entry date instead of sale date. |
57489 |
A new user right Accept & Create Bills for Supplement is now available. It controls the menu option in the Property menu. |
Collections Data Export
59428 |
The Export Collection Information process was failing with a property imbalance and a record imbalance. This has been corrected. |
60698 |
Processing of the collections export was very lengthy on some databases. This has been corrected. |
Delinquent Tax Roll
37333 |
A new feature has been added to export delinquent notices to a text file. |
MH Liens
48439 |
It was not possible to delete improvements from the Mobile Home Information dialog box; this has been corrected. |
Receipts
55448 |
The text “…contact the Tax Office…” at the end of certain tax receipts is now configurable via [Tax Receipt][Contact] in pacs_config. |
Refunds
54082 |
An attorney fee rounding issue which occurred on posting an overpayment and modifying the bill has been corrected. |
57860 |
The audit trail amount and the tax refund amount did not match. This has been corrected. |
Reports/Letters
58058 |
On the Refunds Due Report, refund amounts were reported incorrectly for an overpayment on a zero dollar bill. This has been corrected. |
VIT
48895 |
A new report, the Escrow Balance Report, is now available under Reports > Escrow & VIT > Escrow Balance Report. The report provides the escrow balance as of a certain date for auditing purposes. |