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BillSoft® Announces the Release of EZTax® International

Lenexa, KS, May 1, 2002: BillSoft, Inc., the leader for taxation solutions, announced today that their new product offering, EZTax® International. EZTax International is the highest performance and most comprehensive taxation system available for the communications industry. EZTax International provides the capability to calculate 70 types of taxes, fees and surcharges for telecommunications services including long distance, prepaid, wireless, calling card, local, data services, internet usage and web hosting for 76 countries. When fully utilized to process all transactions supported, EZTax generates over 11 million taxes. EZTax calculates taxes that are percentage based amounts, per minute taxes, fixed amount taxes and per line/location taxes.

"Due to requests for international taxation support from our existing EZTax client base, we have enhanced EZTax to fit their needs," said Vicki Klein, president of BillSoft. "Presently there are 76 countries covered by EZTax International, including the United States, Canada and many European countries. Customers of EZTax International will enjoy the same exceptional performance, unsurpassed accuracy and value pricing as they receive with EZTax as well as superior customer support from the BillSoft staff. In addition, BillSoft’s EZTax product includes taxation for sales and use in its base application rather than requiring the purchase of an additional product or license. EZTax is the highest performance and the most comprehensive telecommunications taxation system on the market today," said Klein.

EZTax International is backwards compatible with the existing version of EZTax. Furthermore, new interfaces are provided for taxation based upon Zip+4 and allow for country specification. The complete list of countries supported by EZTax International are:

United States American Samoa Argentina Australia
Austria Azerbaijan Barbados Belgium
Bolivia Bulgaria Cambodia Canada
China Columbia Costa Rica Croatia
Cyprus Czech Republic Denmark Ecuador
Estonia Federated States of Micronesia Fiji Finland
France Germany Ghana Greece
Guam Honduras Hungary Indonesia
Ireland Italy Japan Kenya
Latvia Lithuania Luxembourg Marshall Islands
Mauritius Mexico Morocco Namibia
Netherlands New Zealand Northern Mariana Islands Norway
Palau Panama Papua New Guinea Peru
Poland Portugal Romania Puerto Rico
Russia Singapore Slovenia South Africa
Spain Sweden Switzerland Taiwan
Tanzania Thailand Trinidad and Tobago Turkey
Uganda Ukraine United Kingdom Uruguay
US Virgin Islands Venezuela Vietnam Zambia

"EZTax International is yet another demonstration of BillSoft’s leadership in delivering innovative and leading edge products to the communications industry," said Klein. "With the development of EZTax International we offer companies throughout the world a solution that fits their needs."

About BillSoft, Inc.
BillSoft specializes in enhancing billing systems and service bureau products by providing taxation, address scrubbing, and jurisdiction assignment solutions. BillSoft’s Total Tax Solution consists of EZTax, EZDataTM, EZFileTM, BillSoft Online, EZGeoTM, EZTax Viewer, tax compliance filing, and tax consulting services. BillSoft’s flagship product, EZTax, is the most comprehensive telecommunications tax package available. Taxing in excess of 1.8 billion transactions per hour, EZTax is by far the highest performance system on the market. With the availability of taxation for products and services in 76 countries, EZTax provides the most comprehensive telecom tax system and the best overall value. EZTax is supported on a wide array of platforms including the IBM S/390, IBM AS/400, Hewlett Packard’s HPUX (32 and 62 bit), Data General’s DGUX, Intel Linux, Sun Solaris (32 and 64 bit), IBM RS/6000 AIX, Bull Escala AIX and Windows NT/2000/2003 environments. In addition, BillSoft is partnered with billing and OSS providers, providing communications companies with a one-stop approach and seamless billing/taxation system.

BillSoft® and EZTax® are registered trademarks of BillSoft, Incorporated. All other trademarks are the property of their respective holders. Copyright © 2004 BillSoft, Inc., 8220 Marshall Drive, Lenexa, KS 66214. All Rights Reserved.

For more information, please contact:
Heidi Winters, 800-525-8175,  sales@billsoft.com