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Questions for the Opening Vignette Why is it important for IRS and for U.S. state governments to use data warehousing and business intelligence (BI) tools in managing state revenues? What were the challenges the state of Maryland was facing with regard to tax fraud? What was the solution they adopted? Do you agree with their approach? Why? What were the results that they obtained? Did the investment in BI and data warehousing pay off? What other problems and challenges do you think federal and state governments are having that can benefit from BI and data warehousing? What We Can Learn from

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1. Why is it important for IRS and for U.S. state governments to use data warehousing and business intelligence (BI) tools in managing state revenues?

using Bi tools allows for better analysis and this woiuld make understanding and governance to be easier for the government. revenues can be very complex and difficut to understand but business intelligence tools can make it easier.

2. What were the challenges the state of Maryland was facing with regard to tax fraud?

the state of maryland was having issues with tax fraud  due to fraudulent returns and they were having problems detecting and investigating this because of how time consuming the process was.

3. What was the solution they adopted?

As a solution the state used a data warehouse from teradata. this gave them the opportunity to be able to identify and trace data that showed patterns of fraudulent returns. priority was made to go after refund fraud.

4. Do you agree with their approach? Why?

yes i agree with their approach. the reason is because the use of this tools in tracing tax fraud was an efficient way of tracing the problem and through the results appropriateways on how to combat the problem would be adopted.

5. What were the results that they obtained? Did the investment in BI and data warehousing pay off?

through the use of these tools the state was able to recover about 7 million dollars. therefore the investment paid off.

6. What other problems and challenges do you think federal and state governments are having that can benefit from BI and data warehousing?

some other problems that the government is having which can benefit  from these tools are

a. voter fraud

b. medical usage

c. other forms of tax issues.