Effective Tax Collection System for The Inland Revenue Department of Sri Lanka
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2013
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Uva Wellassa University of Sri Lanka
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The Inland Revenue Department of Sri Lanka is a leading government institute in Sri Lanka. The main role of the institution is collecting taxes representing the government. It is controlled by the Ministry of Finance and Planning. The department's head office is in Colombo 2. The data of the department is handled by the computer development unit. There are not any separate information systems for these branches. There is an increasing request from the government to collect much revenue from taxes to face the increasing financial problems experienced by the country. So the Inland Revenue Department has to collect tax from registered tax payers effectively. The registration process of new tax payers completely depends on the availability of tax-information and easy tax payment system. In such a situation the department has to have an enhanced tax payments collection system and an efficient way of handling tax-information. This project provides a web-based system, which has a facility to make online payments by the registered tax payers which introduced to solve above problem. Further it will maintain a strong relationship with its registered members by sending the details and updates quickly. Along the path towards the web based system from existing system it decided to achieve efficient and effective revenue collection process and reports generation process from the data gathered. After completing the analysis and design, implementation, evaluation and testing this web based system can be established to make effective tax collection process in Sri Lanka. Ultimately it will be add values to national resource base by increasing the life status of all citizens as this cause to increase the tax revenue of the country.
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Industrial Information Technology Degree Program