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Water Excise Tax

The Iowa Department of Revenue's Water Service Excise Tax (“WET”) project began as a result of 2018 legislation which established a water service excise tax. Water was previously subject to sales tax. The Governor signed the legislation in January and the new tax had to be in place July 1, 2018. The work was completed by the mainframe programmers from Iowa’s Office of the Chief Information Officer (OCIO) and included a partnership with their outside vendor to update the Efile & Pay application.

eManure Management Plans

Animal Feeding Operations (AFO) and Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations (CAFO) are required to submit an annual manure management plan (MMP).  Annually, 7,000 MMPs were submitted on paper, delivered to each county where manure was applied, then submitted to the Department of Natural Resources (DNR) for review and approval.  What worked well in 2006 for 2,200 farmers and 6 DNR staff was totally inadequate to address the increasing number of plan submittals and public requests for better access to data.

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