Everything about Copernic Tax Project totally explained
Copernic project is undergoing a major modernisation programme in
France that willrecast and upgrade the entire fiscal information system in the country. Copernic project is set
to run over 10 years (2001-2009) by "Direction générale des Impôts" and "Direction générale
de la Comptabilité publique". It covers 70 individual IT projects, employs over 600 personnel
and has a budget of almost 1 billion euros.
Objective
Its objective is to enable the
French tax
administration to offer new, citizen-centered services and to boost the efficiency of its internal
processes. Copernic will provide a simplified unique fiscal account for all French taxpayers,
both individuals and businesses. They will be provided with 24/7 online access to their fiscal
account and will be able to trace and follow-up processed data. Ultimately, users will be able
to check their fiscal account at anytime and execute all fiscal transactions and declarations
online, while the tax administration will be able to provide new services such as payment
reminders and information alerts. In addition to the Internet, e-tax services will be delivered
through a variety of channels, including call centers and traditional physical service. The
Copernic program will also open the possibility of implementing a new income tax recovery
system as of 2007.
Architecture
Copernic wanted a
service-oriented architecture (
SOA) featuring complete control of IT
systems, long-term sustainability and vendor independence. To cover all the fiscal
information and its processing for 55 million citizens and 3 million enterprises, it had made a
rational choice to use
Free and Open Source Software (
FOSS). The advantages of open source are: very low-cost or free of charge and
source-code opening that guarantees the reliability, durability and security of these solutions.
Copernic deployed 4000
Linux servers and application architecture is based upon
Java EE. It has
full
FOSS system monitoring (
Nagios,
MRTG) and software development platform (
Eclipse).
The presenter added, "FOSS is now our standard policy even for critical applications." They
also needed a unique
EJB reference implementation. After a tough competition between many
candidates (
WebLogic,
WebSphere,
Oracle,
JBoss), they finally chose an
open-source middleware JBoss. This is due to its known reliability, modularity, security and more importantly its independence from traditional industry constraints.
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