The Itat Quarterly

Fiscal Year 2025 - Q3 Edition
Welcome to The ITAT Quarterly!
The ITAT Quarterly newsletter is brought to you by the county treasurers of IowaTaxAndTags.org. It is designed to increase communications and provide treasurers with information on hot-topic issues that concern Iowa county treasurers.
Happy New Year! We hope you had a restful holiday season and are ready to embrace the new year with renewed energy. As we step into 2025, we’re also looking forward to the warmer temperatures on the horizon, bringing a welcome change after the colder months.
With the new year comes an important reminder: the property tax payment due date is just around the corner. Be sure to mark your calendars and encourage your community to stay ahead of the deadline. Timely payments are key to supporting essential local services, and your efforts help ensure a smooth and efficient collection process. The ITAT March reminders are scheduled to be sent on Friday, February 28th for those constituents who signed up to receive the March reminder when paying their September taxes online.
In this edition, we’ll share valuable updates, tips, and resources to help you navigate the quarter ahead with ease.
Wishing you a successful and productive year ahead!
Thank you for taking the time to read the ITAT Quarterly!
County Treasurer Spotlight
Ted Rasmusson, Story County
Q&A with Story County Treasurer Ted Rusmusson
Q: How long have you been treasurer for Story County?
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Q: How did you get your start? What inspired you to pursue elected office?
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Q: How many team members do you have in your office?
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Q: What are some successes that you’ve had during your time as Treasurer?
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Q: What are some challenges that you’ve faced? How have you overcome them?
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Q: What solutions or accomplishments are you most proud of?
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Q: What are your future goals for your team and your office?
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Q: What are you looking forward to most?
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Q: What is something about you that most people don’t know?
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Q: What is something unique to your county?
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Q: Other Treasurer Comments?
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Q: What are some of your hobbies?
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Q: Tell us about your family.
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Q: What was your favorite vacation?
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Q: What is something about you that most people don’t know?
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Q: Other Comments?
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Ted Rasmusson, Story County Treasurer
Featured Enhancements
The ITAT Development Team is continuously making improvements to make Iowa Tax And Tags the best payment site possible. Some of the high impact enhancements that the team is working on include:
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IowaTaxAndTags.org - Information Pages (Planning Stage) - Full review and update of informational pages.
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ITAT User Accounts (Pre-Production) – The ITAT development team has completed the development of the user accounts and are working on the final clean-up items identified by the ITAT testing group.
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Saved Payment Methods (Pre-Production) – Development of Saved Payment Methods has been completed and will be deployed with the ITAT User Accounts.
- Scheduled/Recurring Payments (In-Process) - Scheduled and recurring payment functionality is in development. Recurring payments will be included in a subsequent release to the user accounts and saved payment methods.
Adam Draayer, ITAT Project Owner
Leveraging AI in Software Development
Fortunately, we recently reviewed this as a development team and have answers! Or at least the beginnings of answers. Tools like Co-Pilot, ChatGPT, Midjourney, and more are very useful in the automation of mundane, repetitive, or straightforward development tasks. Not sure what to name a variable? Ask Co-Pilot. Can’t remember which function to use to call a specific action? ChatGPT has your back. These tasks are things that were previously ‘busy work’ or ‘filler’ but didn’t bring value to the software or stakeholders. If we properly leverage AI and LLM tools in our development process we can speed along development by focusing on what’s important – finding the value in the work we are doing. As AI tools become more ubiquitous, it is up to development teams to embrace these new tools and apply them as appropriate, giving us room and resources to solve the harder problems that machines can’t solve. At least yet.
Event/Location | Date/Time |
1099 Tax Forms Mailed | by January 31, 2025 |
Presidents Day (Most County Offices Closed) | February 17, 2025 |
ITAT Property Tax Reminder Emails Sent | February 28, 2025 |
Daylight Savings Time Begins | March 9, 2025 |
ISAC Spring Conference | March 13-14, 2025 |
Homestead/DAV Credit sent by the State | March 20, 2025 (approximate) |
Batch Company - March Taxes Due (ITAT Counties) | March 20, 2025 |
Tier 1 Replacement sent by the State | March 31, 2025 (approximate) |
Commercial Rollback Monies sent by the State | March 31, 2025 (approximate) |
Property Taxes Due (March Installment) | March 31, 2025 |
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ITAT Team:
Dan Radkay, Sr. Applications Developer
Sarika Mandumula, Sr. Applications Developer
Aaron Nord, Applications Developer
Zach Peterson, Applications Developer
Adam Draayer, ITAT Product Owner
Don Lewis, ITAT Project Manager