FTI stands for Federal Tax Information. RITA has a partnership with Internal Revenue Service (IRS), in which the IRS shares information with RITA, including but not limited to, non-filers, underreported income and address updates.
Defining FTI and Consequences of Non-Compliance PII is any sensitive information that can be used to identify an individual, such as social security numbers, whereas FTI is defined very broadly in Internal Revenue Code 6103 as return information received from the IRS or a secondary source.
IRS Publication 1075 provides guidance to ensure the policies, practices, controls, and safeguards employed by recipient agencies, agents, or contractors adequately protect the confidentiality of Federal Tax Information (FTI).
FTI includes any information created by the Marketplace that is derived from return or return information. For example, if a list of individuals is generated based off the Failure to Reconcile (FTR) Response Code, then the list itself is considered FTI of those individuals and must be also be properly safeguarded.
FTI is obtained under various Internal IRC § 6103 disclosure authorities but may not be shared across programs nor accessed by state agency employees for unauthorized program uses. State information technology (IT) officials are generally engaging contractors to design, develop and implement these integrated systems.
Organizations subject to IRS 1075 must complete several security requirements, including: Establishing an accurate record-keeping system. Restricting access to FTI and only allowing authorized parties to interact with taxpayer information. Completing periodic Safeguard security reports (SSRs)
To be considered an appropriate authentication method, passwords must meet the requirements identified in Pub. 1075, Section 4.7, Authenticator Management (IA-5), which includes a minimum of fourteen characters, and a mixture of at least one numeric, one special character, one uppercase and one lowercase letter.
Destroy all FTI information locally (i.e.: in the office); shredding manually or by a contracted service, supervised by designated staff.
An Officers Certificate is a document signed by a company's officer certifying certain facts about the company.
"Officers' certificate" means a certificate signed and verified by the chairperson of the board, the president or any vice president and by the secretary, the chief financial officer, the treasurer or any assistant secretary or assistant treasurer.