Case Study:  State Income Tax Fraud 

Problem

  • State of Hawaii tax department needs to verify federal taxpayers also pay state tax
  • New businesses are registered with temporary tax identifiers, but don’t always update state tax office when a permanent federal ID is assigned
  • Tax revenues are being lost
  • Business names in Hawaii tend to be long and complex

Solution

  • Embed Pervasive DataRush DataMatcher to find records contained in federal returns and state tax records
  • Apply powerful combinations of fuzzy matching algorithms
  • Pre-process data to increase matching accuracy



Benefits

  • Increased matching accuracy and capacity lead to large increase in tax revenue recovery
  • Solution adjust easily to data changes

Case Study Summary

Industry  Public Sector
Solution  Pervasive DataRush for Data Preparation
Business Problem Solved  Detecting State Income Tax Fraud