Comptroller Lierman outlines new unclaimed-property website, dashboards and August tax-system migration

Comptroller Lierman briefed the Southern Maryland delegation on the Office of the Comptroller27s priorities, digital tools and systems work, saying the agency serves millions of taxpayers and is modernizing legacy systems.

"We serve 3,200,000 individual taxpayers," Lierman said while describing the agency27s scope. She highlighted a new unclaimed-property website launched the prior October to make it easier for residents to reclaim lost assets and said the state now uses the same platform as roughly 40 other states.

Lierman also emphasized transparency and new public data tools: a federal spending dashboard launched in January and a Board of Public Works dashboard populated with contract data to help residents track state spending.

On IT modernization, Lierman said the agency is replacing COBOL-era systems: "We are moving our entire personal tax system in August," she told the delegation, describing a complex migration of taxpayer data to a cloud-based platform that will require continuous data transfers over several days. She added that the same teams managing current tax season will work on the migration, and acknowledged the plan leaves limited capacity for other large initiatives this year.

Lierman said the Office also launched an Office of the Taxpayer Advocate to address systemic issues, is migrating central payroll to Workday, and is opening branch offices including locations in Bel Air, Rockville and Frederick while keeping Waldorf open.

Delegation members thanked Lierman for the presentation and asked follow-up questions about modernization and taxpayer service.