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<br />B. STARS (SALES TAX ANALYSIS & REPORTING SYSTEM) <br /> Quarterly, MRC will provide the City with an updated set of bound <br /> STARS reports. The scope of MRC's STARS reports includes, but is <br /> not limited to, the following: <br /> 0 Cleaning up, standardizing and automating data from the <br /> City's sales/use tax distribution reports provided by SBE for <br /> eight (8) previous quarters, current quarter and each future <br /> quarter service. This is done to provide two benchmark years <br /> in the initial report to the City. Amounts for the most recent <br /> quarter are included in each STARS report, but are not used <br /> for benchmark purposes as many accounts are incomplete due <br /> to late-paying businesses. <br /> MRC clients use STARS reports to gain a better understanding <br /> of where their sales tax comes from, what trends, good or bad, <br /> are occurring to their sales tax base, and to identify those <br /> businesses on which the jurisdiction is most dependent for its <br /> sales tax revenue. <br /> 0 Receiving and processing sales tax distribution reports <br /> quarterly. <br /> 0 Reorganizing and refining the computerized sales tax data for <br /> the City utilizing MRC's STARS. <br /> 0 Analyzing the City's major sales tax producers. <br /> All major sales producers and business categories are <br /> monitored and analyzed quarterly based on reports to include <br /> the following: <br /> - Management Summary, Sales Tax Digest, Charts. <br /> MRC's STARS reports include a confidential <br /> Management Summary, a non-confidential Sales Tax <br /> Digest, and twelve color charts that portray graphically <br /> the City's sales tax performance and composition. <br />~,~-,- '~'__'"_.""_~"^.'._·_M'_"_____~~'~_.~ T --_.,,'~' <br />