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Staff reports successful property‑tax data load and plans to migrate business tax to state e‑file and import fixed assets into Tyler
Summary
Finance staff reported completion of a difficult 2025 property‑tax data load, announced plans to retire the legacy business tax module in favor of the state's TR3 e‑file portal to improve business licensing, and said they will import fixed assets into Tyler, adding one accounting associate to support that work.
Finance staff (Speaker 3) reported they successfully loaded 2025 property‑tax data after a difficult data conversion effort and said the experience exposed problems with the legacy business tax module. Staff proposed sunsetting the legacy business tax module and moving business filings to the state's TR3 e‑file portal, which the county already uses; staff said the change should allow taxpayers to generate business licenses and share up‑to‑date data across jurisdictions.
Speaker 3 said the city will perform a full review of the problems encountered in the conversion and may incur some development cost to fix interface issues. Staff also reported intent to import fixed assets into Tyler (the city’s financial system), which will be a significant manual lift; to support that work the department plans to hire one additional accounting associate and train revenue staff on the new e‑file portal by Nov. 1.
Committee members asked questions about peripheral items such as tower or library presentations; Speaker 3 said staff will follow up as needed. The committee did not take separate action on the software changes during the meeting but endorsed staff follow up and training timelines.
