{"id":382,"date":"2008-09-20T19:04:41","date_gmt":"2008-09-20T23:04:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/calleam.com\/WTPF\/?p=382"},"modified":"2022-12-26T14:02:04","modified_gmt":"2022-12-26T22:02:04","slug":"rate-collection-agency-northern-island","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/calleam.com\/WTPF\/?p=382","title":{"rendered":"Rate Collection Agency &#8211; Northern Island"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Following entry is a record in the \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/calleam.com\/WTPF\/?page_id=3\"><span style=\"color: #0070c5;\">Catalogue of Catastrophe<\/span><\/a>\u201d &#8211;\u00a0a list of failed and troubled projects from around the world.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Rate Collection Agency \u2013 Northern Island<br \/>\nProject name : <\/strong>Abbacus<br \/>\n<strong>Date :<\/strong> Jun 2008<strong> Cost :<\/strong>$260M USD<\/p>\n<p><strong>Synopsis :<\/strong><br \/>\nProblems with local property tax (&#8220;property rates&#8221;) collection system result in $260M worth of payments going uncollected.\u00a0 Calculation errors result in\u00a0one person receiving a disability allowance of\u00a0\u00a32.9M.\u00a0 System lacked basic functions such as the ability to\u00a0send late payment notices or initiating collection proceedings if payment\u00a0not received.\u00a0 Audit and internal control functions serious compromised resulting in serious fraud concerns.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Contributing factors as reported in the press and official enquiries\u00a0:<br \/>\n<\/strong>Poor requirements specifications, missing requirements, problems migrating data from legacy systems, pressure to deploy the system before adequate testing had been completed.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, significant changes in rate collection policies \/ procedures were made concurrently with the project. The concurrent efforts left insufficient time for the necessary changes\u00a0to be built into the new system\u00a0before planned production release.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Reference links :<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/northern_ireland\/7484537.stm\"><span style=\"color: #0070c5;\">IT failure \u2019causes \u00a3130m arrears\u2019 <\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.niauditoffice.gov.uk\/files\/niauditoffice\/media-files\/financial_auditing_and_reporting_2006-07_0.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"color: #0070c5;\">General Report by the Comptroller and Auditor General Northern Island<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following entry is a record in the \u201cCatalogue of Catastrophe\u201d &#8211;\u00a0a list of failed and troubled projects from around the world. Rate Collection Agency \u2013 Northern Island Project name : Abbacus Date : Jun 2008 Cost :$260M USD Synopsis : Problems with local property tax (&#8220;property rates&#8221;) collection system result in $260M worth of payments [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[130,129,93,147],"class_list":["post-382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government","category-failed-project","tag-government","tag-failed-project","tag-why-do-projects-fail","tag-why-projects-fail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/calleam.com\/WTPF\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/calleam.com\/WTPF\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/calleam.com\/WTPF\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calleam.com\/WTPF\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calleam.com\/WTPF\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=382"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/calleam.com\/WTPF\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9464,"href":"https:\/\/calleam.com\/WTPF\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382\/revisions\/9464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/calleam.com\/WTPF\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calleam.com\/WTPF\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calleam.com\/WTPF\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}