Anakam understands the challenges facing taxation agencies in the government space today. How do such agencies balance access to information and Web accessible services like e-filing, remote update, and electronic payment, while also protecting the highly sensitive financial and taxation history of our citizens and corporations? Anakam focuses first on providing a means to uniquely identify each individual remotely without the need for the Social Security Number by using Anakam.IDP® (and Anakam.IDV®). This reduces the ongoing costs of operations of the identity process allowing individuals to register for Anakam.TFA® for use in all subsequent interactions.

Integrating Risk Management Principles
In addition to simple authentication and identity proofing, the Anakam platform is unique in its flexibility to not only provide the authentication and identity proofing needed to meet regulatory mandates or guidelines, but also provide taxation agencies with the flexibility to integrate risk management principles into their business practices. Anakam allows authentication strength to be increased in situations where a person is getting access to not only their own information, but potentially that of other taxpayers (paid preparers or surrogates). Anakam also allows the enterprise to leverage information from the authentication, identity proofing, and verification processes to change the business behavior of the application. Further, Anakam supports agencies that need to meet the challenge that a person may have multiple roles within the system. For example, a taxation agency employee, who has one set of permissions (and one way to authenticate), is also a tax payer, and may also be a surrogate who oversees their parent’s tax affairs…each role having a different set of rules for identity proofing and authentication.

Anakam supports taxation agencies in their efforts to transform their information and business processes from transaction-centric, largely paper-based bureaucracies, to citizen-centric agencies with enhanced eGovernment services. Once these agencies have the means to positively identify and associate a person with an electronic identity, they can then offer a variety of electronic tax-related transactions. This change from transaction-centric, where information may be stove-piped and difficult to correlate, to person-centric, wherein unique electronic identities (tied to specific individuals) are the center of every transaction, ultimately allows the agencies to offer new and better services, see trends and needs, and spot fraud when necessary.