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The STARS Digest is a summary that features a general analysis regarding statewide trends that may affect sales and use tax plus a specific analysis of sales and use tax composition, changes and performance. The STARS Digest will provide historical analysis of sales and use tax economic base and performance. Utilizing this vast database, MuniServices will also provide ad hoc analysis, geo-areas, custom reports, information and consulting services such as revenue forecasting and revenue presentations. <br />STARS Query System & Accompanying Database The STARS Query System & Accompanying Database enables City staff to analyze the contribution of SUTA revenue from each taxpayer on an individual, grouped or sorted-order basis by business name, business type, permit number, size ranking, street address, development, shopping center, and geographic area. Reports may be generated by any year (i.e. calendar, fiscal, benchmark) or for any particular quarter for all periods stored in the historical database. All sales tax data processed by MuniServices is located on the Query System. Each business can be called up by account number, business name or address. Each geo-area and economic segment can be analyzed in total and by each individual business. Historical amounts for each account can be accessed through the Query System. MuniServices developed the Query System to be simple and user-friendly, incorporating different types of name and address searches to capture hard to find accounts. For example, the address search requires only the street name to enable the “auto-fill” feature that adds in the direction and proper abbreviation for the street type. The data will be provided in a format allowing staff to export SUTA information from the Query System. All queries may be exported and saved into .dbf or .xls formats. <br />Quarterly Sales Tax Review Meetings & Consulting The Quarterly Sales Tax Review Meetings allow staff to meet with their MuniServices’ Client Services Manager/Project Manager on an individualized basis to provide consulting services – the capstone of STARS value. MuniServices will meet with staff as frequently as desired to discuss forecasts and consulting reports that explain the revenue received from the SBE, which includes cash receipts analysis, regional comparison report, quarterly changes report, per capita charts, historical trend analysis, top 100 businesses, legislative and regulatory updates, and related other topics. <br />Quarterly STARS Digest Executive Summary/Economic Outlook Newsletter The STARS Digest Executive Summary is the first of MuniServices’ two-part quarterly newsletter for its clients. This Executive Summary contains a general economic overview of sales tax revenue trends and performance. The second part of the newsletter is the Economic Outlook report, which provides a review of national and regional economic news affecting sales tax revenue. The Economic Outlook report also provides an overview of macro and microeconomics information about, inflation, the job market, manufacturing activity, construction spending, etc. <br />The Forecast Of the many exceptional reports MuniServices provides, the five-fiscal year sales and use tax forecast is the most valued by our Clients. Your dedicated Client Services Manager delivers an updated forecast every quarter. The forecast not only integrates business-level adjustments based on business-by-business projections, microeconomic trends from the data itself, macroeconomic trends from multiple sources, anomalies, future developments, and threatened business, but also integrates those adjustments into three forecast scenarios. The scenarios integrate with a month- <br />ATTY/AGR/2015.101/MUNISERVICE LLC <br />7.1.H. - Page 21