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The City of Quincy, Illinois
Recovered $90K & digitized compliance in five months
The Problem: Local leaders didn’t have the staff or expertise to recover missing revenue or identify new revenue streams, much less find a solution for educating taxpayers and staff or conducting registration and collections.
The Solution: Our team provided an all-in-one revenue maximization and compliance solution that resulted in $90K uncovered in annual revenues and a streamlined taxpayer experience. In partnership with Localgov, we were able to conduct education, registration, and collections in only two months.
$980K reclaimed from underpayment of franchise fees
The Problem: The City of Springfield suspected it was missing out on utility franchise fees, but didn’t know quite how much.
The Solution: Azavar’s team of analysts discovered that Comcast had underpaid Springfield by nearly $1 million. We quickly negotiated a settlement for Springfield and added significant revenues to the city’s budget.
Identified the total volume of short-term rental hosts and digitized compliance
The Problem: The County didn’t know how to identify or collect taxes from short-term rentals, per new legislation. And it didn’t even have a way for hosts to register rentals or pay taxes on their rental properties.
The Solution: Our team implemented Localgov's Short-Term Rental Administration solution and identified 100% of short-term rental hosts in the jurisdiction. We added online tax-payment capabilities so hosts can now manage their accounts, remit steady payments to the County, and stay compliant.
Lodging tax review | Online-travel company compliance | Taxpayer support | Digital filing & payment
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Cut Costs Without Cutting Services
Increase Your Bond Rating & Secure Optimal Interest Rates
Eliminate Risk With No Out-Of-Pocket Review Expense
Recover & Collect the Maximum with Azavar's Revenue Reviews
"I wholeheartedly recommend that every community seeking to protect and enhance its revenue sources engage Azavar to conduct a municipal audit program."
Mayor William F. Murphy The Village of Woodridge, Illinois
Achieve Better Revenue Collections Through Ordinance Improvement
"Azavar helped to educate my staff, me, and our hotel staff. There were a lot of ambiguities in our old ordinances that had been on the books for thirty, forty years, and we updated and clarified our ordinances."
Linda Moore, Treasurer Quincy, Illinois
Streamline Taxpayer Online Filings with LocalgovTax & Fee Administration
“Our constituents will benefit from having a secure, transparent, and digital way to file and pay taxes. Localgov is working with Finance to cultivate trust and satisfactionamong our community. We are proud to deliver a modern and easy-to-use service to our taxpayers."
David DLG. Atalig, Secretary of Finance Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands
Empower Your Decision-Makers with Localgov Insights & Analytics
Local governments count on sales taxes from local businesses for up to one-third of their total tax revenues. Automating the process of tracking revenues helps monitor the business health of your community and assists in deciding where to allocate resources. Insights & Analytics empowers finance leaders to explore data, discern trends, and make actionable plans for their community. For Illinois and Texas customers only.
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We hear this question a lot. In reality, your municipality probably administers more taxes or fees than you might realize—everything from dog-walking licenses to fuel taxes, lodging to franchise fees. Every penny matters. After we complete a baseline compliance review of your revenue streams, our self-auditing Localgov platform will automatically keep your taxpayers in compliance going forward. We’ll work with your staff to get this online filing & payment platform up and running and help your taxpayers get started.
No problem! Azavar’s solutions (including the online tax filing & payment solution Localgov) are designed to seamlessly integrate with other programs. Localgov is a universal platform with universal data export. We configure the required integrations during your onboarding process to meet your needs.
We understand just how tight municipal budgets can be. That’s why our pricing structure for revenue reviews involves no up-front costs. We work on a contingency basis. If we recover revenue, we’ll share in the rewards. However, we don’t take a dime until your community is paid first.
Localgov, our online remittance platform, is priced based on the needs of each municipality and we’ll work with your team to arrive at a price based on transactions processed and other custom requirements. However, the platform is so easy to use that it is a guaranteed revenue generator. Your taxpayer constituents will be able to remit payments more swiftly and consistently. Funds are available almost immediately, ensuring that you can continue to provide service to your residents.
Yes! Here’s why: a truly comprehensive revenue review includes initial discovery, reckoning, and collections. That entire process, when conducted internally, can take up to two years, depending on complexity, responsiveness, and collections. Few municipalities have the staff required to manage such a thorough and complex process and the funds generated could be cancelled out by payroll costs. However, Azavar takes on the financial risk by offering a no-fee, contingency-only model for municipalities. We only get paid after you do.
We do more than just check addresses. Using our proprietary GIS software and a time-tested process, we uncover all errors, rate issues, and boundary concerns. Our 360-degree approach looks at every single ordinance and levy from all possible angles.
Yes! We don’t discriminate on size when it comes to revenue reviews—and neither do tax errors. Smaller communities lack the kind of oversight abilities that larger municipalities have and we bring those to the table. Here’s a great example: we worked with Sesser, IL (pop. 1,875) to uncover $10,000 in revenue. Sounds pretty great, right?
Localgov, our digital remittance platform, helps small municipalities offer more high-value services. Instead of pushing paperwork, your staff can work directly with businesses and residents on more meaningful efforts. Plus, your taxpayer constituents will save on late fees and fines when they have the option to file, pay, and manage their businesses' local tax compliance online.
Absolutely not. The benefit of hiring a seasoned local firm such as Azavar is that we do all of the heavy lifting. After a short call and subsequent site visit to collect relevant documents, our team will be off and running.
Adopting Localgov is similarly straightforward. The platform takes as little as one month to implement—again, with our team doing much of the heavy lifting. And then, you’ll watch the time savings add up as previously paper processes are replaced by speedy digital methods.
We’ve been a trusted partner to local governments for more than 25 years. We’ve returned more than $500 million to municipalities across the country and are eager to provide case studies and references from our many contented clients, including city managers, mayors, finance leaders, etc.
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