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Idaho State Tax Commission defends FAST software spending and vehicle, IT requests; says collections exceeded ROI
Summary
The Idaho State Tax Commission told JFAC it seeks several maintenance and replacement items — including IT security investments and vehicle replacements — and said the FAST tax-management modernization has produced $34.3 million in additional collections, exceeding a previously cited return-on-investment goal.
The Idaho State Tax Commission presented its FY2026 enhancement requests to the Joint Finance-Appropriations Committee on Feb. 18, seeking funding for IT security and infrastructure, vehicle replacements and ongoing contract inflation for its FAST tax-management system, while asserting the FAST implementation has already exceeded the collections return-on-investment (ROI) target.
Commission Chair Jeff McCray told the committee the agency has collected $34,287,416 since FAST implementation — a figure he said exceeds the project’s projected $20 million ROI — and said the project came in on time and produced net returns that allowed the…
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