STI will have to legitimize tax information system

Accrual tax accounting system of the State Tax Inspectorate (STI) is being developed violating the legislation and using the available resources in an unreasonable way, says the report of the National Audit Office. Auditor General Giedrė Švedienė pointed out that this audit revealed yet again shortcomings and problems of the control of development of national information systems. “It is especially worrying that the planned outcome of the development of information systems are not achieved in due time in public institutions, accordingly the need for funds for the development grows by several times, and these problems keep on occuring. It is essential to speed up the  adoption of  the Law

on the Management of National Information Resources,“ said the Auditor General.

The NAOL has taken note of the fact of unreasonable planning and use of funds. It was detected that when planning the new information system it had not been exactly known what kind and how much resources would be needed, and the computer equipment had been procured when the implementor of the system had not yet been chosen and the detailed technical architecture had not been defined. Some of the new information system computer equipment was used not according to the purpose. STI plans to procure some ten servers and other equipment, although they already have nine servers, which have not been used so far.



Public audit report is available in Lithuanian:
Information Systems Control in the State Tax Inspectorate