Arkansans Offered Online Property Tax Payments at www.accessArkansas.org as October 10th Filing Deadline Nears.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers LITTLE ROCK, Ark.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 3, 2003 Paying personal property taxes just got easier for many citizens, thanks to the online property tax payment system now being offered to a growing number of Arkansas Arkansas, river, United States Arkansas (ärkăn`zəs, är`kənsô'), river, c.1,450 mi (2,330 km) long, rising in the Rocky Mts., central Colo. counties. The new service gives many Arkansas taxpayers the ability to pay their taxes 24 hours a day and seven days a week from the convenience of their homes. The online property tax payment system is available through the end of the current property tax collection period on October October: see month. 10. The online property tax payment system is featured on the state of Arkansas' web site at www.accessArkansas.org as well as on participating county web sites. Citizens in Pulaski, Saline saline /sa·line/ (sa´len) (sa´lin) salty; of the nature of a salt; containing a salt or salts. normal saline , physiological saline physiologic saline solution. , Benton, Washington, Pope, Randolph, and Craighead counties are the first to be able to use the new property tax payment system. Similar services are also being developed for Boone, Cleburne, and Sebastian counties. Eventually, citizens in all 75 Arkansas counties will be able to take advantage of online property tax payments. "We congratulate the county tax collectors for joining forces to implement this online property tax solution," said Janet Janet: see Clouet, Jean. JANET - Joint Academic NETwork Grard, general manager of accessArkansas. "When governments work together, citizens are the clear winner. We applaud the efficiencies these services will generate for Arkansans." Paying property taxes online in Arkansas takes less than five minutes, and users can print out a confirmation of their payment immediately. Visa, MasterCard, or Discover credit cards are accepted through the accessArkansas secure payment server. In addition, citizens can pay with eChecks, which is a secure method of debiting funds electronically from a checking account. This new service was built and managed through a partnership between the county tax collector offices and the Information Network of Arkansas, which manages the official state website at www.accessArkansas.org. About accessArkansas accessArkansas is the official web site of the state of Arkansas (www.accessArkansas.org) and a service of the Information Network of Arkansas. The Information Network of Arkansas is a collaborative effort between the state of Arkansas and Arkansas Information Consortium that helps Arkansas government entities web-enable their information services See Information Systems. . accessArkansas was built and is marketed, operated, and maintained by Arkansas Information Consortium, a wholly owned subsidiary Wholly Owned Subsidiary A subsidiary whose parent company owns 100% of its common stock. Notes: In other words, the parent company owns the company outright and there are no minority owners. of eGovernment firm NIC (1) (Network Interface Card) See network adapter. See also InterNIC. (2) (New Internet Computer) An earlier Linux-based computer from The New Internet Computer Company (NICC), Palo Alto, CA. (Nasdaq:EGOV). About NIC NIC manages more eGovernment services than any provider in the world. The company helps government communicate more effectively with citizens and businesses by putting essential services online. NIC provides eGovernment solutions for 1,400 state and local agencies that serve more than 71 million people in the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. . Additional information is available at www.nicusa.com. |
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