Relating to the calculation of certain ad valorem tax rates.

Contracts

• Software Vendors (GovTech): Master Services Agreements (MSAs) must be updated to reflect new storage and hosting capabilities. Indemnification clauses should be reviewed regarding liability for "broken links" or server downtime that could invalidate a client's tax rate.
• Tax Consultants & Legal Counsel: Statements of Work (SOW) for tax rate calculation services must be amended. The scope now includes the curation, digitization, and hosting of evidentiary documents, not just mathematical calculation.

Hiring/Training

• Data Entry Staff: Personnel must be trained on the new Comptroller forms which will require a URL input for every data field.
• IT/Compliance: Technical teams must establish a protocol for creating stable, permanent URLs (permalinks) for source documents (e.g., appraisal rolls, debt schedules) to ensure links remain active for the statutory retention period.

Reporting & Record-Keeping

• Digital Repository: You must establish a publicly accessible, secure server to host "evidentiary documents."
• Granular TIF Accounting: Taxing units participating in Tax Increment Reinvestment Zones (TIRZ) must cease aggregating data. Accounting systems must be configured to generate taxable value and tax imposition reports *separately* for each specific zone.

Fees & Costs

• Development Costs: Software vendors will incur one-time development costs to update database schemas and UI to support hyperlink fields and separate TIF calculations.
• Service Fees: Consultants should anticipate increasing fees to cover the administrative burden of digitizing and linking source evidence for every line item in the tax calculation.