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Tennessee Secretary of State Tre Hargett
Records Management Division
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RDA Details
RDA
RDA: 11195
Database ID: 2321
Record Series Title: Revenue Integrated Tax System RITS/TR3
Record Series Abstract: Electronic database used to register and maintain taxpayers' information regarding filing and paying state taxes. This system accounts for taxpayer payments, electronic ledgers and tax forms submitted with those payments for each type of Tennessee tax. Records series includes but not limited to: Revenue stamps, Tax Returns, etc.
Record Series Active: Yes
Cut Off at End of: Calendar Year
If Other, Explain:
Total Retention: 0 Years 0 Months
Retention End Action: Permanent
Disposition Notes: Records are generated in both paper and electronic. Paper records are converted to electronic and maintained in the RITS/TR3 electronic database system and Gentax online database once paper records are reviewed for completeness and accuracy they will be destroyed. The electronic database is maintained and supported through several servers. These records are kept permanently in agency.
View Signed Form: Form Not Received
Worksheet
Worksheet ID: 2321
Record Location: 500 Deaderick Street, Andrew Jackson Building
File Arrangement: Alpha-Numeric
Media Format Generated: Both
Media Format Stored: Electronic: Other
Date Range: 1995-Current
Annual Accumulation: 3.84 TB
Current Volume: 1.6 TB
Record Value: Administrative, Fiscal, Legal
Audit Requirements: Both
Reference Frequency:
Current Year per Month: 0
Past Year: 10000
2 - 5 Years: 0
Over 5 Years: 0
Data Update Frequency: Daily
Information Shared Outside of State: Yes
If Shared, List Agencies: Internal Revenue Service
Essential Record: Yes - Original
Essential Record Stored: Agency servers, STS South Data Center and IBM Colorado location
Essential Record Media Type: Electronic
Confidential: Yes
Confidential Legal Citation: TCA 67-5-402
Media Recommendation: Current Format
Media Recommendation Other:
Agency Retention: Permanently
Agency Retention - Years Active:
Agency Retention - Years Inactive:
Records Center Retention Period: None
Final Disposition after Retention Expires: Keep as Electronic
Legal Citation:
Record Sample: No Sample
Legal Documentation: No Legal Documentation
Electronic Records Plan Inventory
System Name: RITS/TR3
IT-ABC Number: DG01C (1996) & DG362
Hardware Description: RITS runs on an IBM mainframe computer and an Intel x86 platform.
Software Description: RITS is a legacy mainframe system that is used by the Department of Revenue to record and support the filing of tax returns, revenue collection, and the enforcement of tax payments. This system is written in the following languages: COBOL, Easytrieve, CICS. Transactions are input online during the day and are processed each night. TR3 is a COTS (Commercial Off The Shelf) software package that has been configured to be used by the Tennessee Dept of Revenue to record and support the filing of tax returns, revenue collection, and the enforcement of tax payments. this software is written and supported in VB. Net coding language and highly configurable by utilizing the built in internal configuration utilities.
System Location: IBM in Boulder, Colorado and STS South Data Center.
Backup Procedures: RITS data is backed up nightly before batch processing begins. TR3 data is backed up nightly after batch processing. Transaction log backups occur every 1 hour, 24/7.
Disaster Recovery: Bi-annual Disaster Recovery tests are completed that test for recovery should the system go down, and that includes division testing as well (TPS, VS, etc.). And STS North Data Center is the current disaster recovery site.
Data Migration Description: N/A. Data is housed on SQL Server Database tables. It contains tax account information, taxpayer demographics, collection and payment data, and correspondence to the taxpayer.
Metadata Description:
Contact Information
Contact Name: Tancey C Coleman
Job Title: Revenue Processing QA Reveiwer/ Revenue Records Officer
Address 1: 500 Deaderick Street
Address 2: Andrew jackson Building
City: Nashville
Zip: 37242
Phone: 6155326095
Email: tancey.coleman@tn.gov
Agency: Dept. of Revenue
Agency Head: David Gerregano
Director: Yvonne Holbert
Allotment Code: 347.16
Status
Action Requested: Revision
Comments
  Date Comments
Records Management Division (RMD): 00-00-0000
Tennessee State Libary and Archives: 00-00-0000
Comptroller Audit Review: 0000-00-00
Agency: 00-00-0000
RMD Director Recomendations: 00-00-0000
Signed Form Received: 0000-00-00
PRC Meeting Date: 00-00-0000
PRC Comments:
PRC Action: Pending
RDA History
ID RDA PRC Reviewed PRC Action
2201 11195 2017-03-28 Approved
2321 11195 0000-00-00 Pending