Longest tenured bill payment site for the IRS, OfficialPayments.com,
has processed more than $20 billion in IRS tax payments
NAPLES, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Mar. 26, 2019--
ACI
Worldwide (NASDAQ: ACIW), a leading global provider of real-time electronic
payment and banking solutions,
today announced that the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) will once again
utilize the company’s online bill payment portal OfficialPayments.com.
It is the longest tenured service provider for the IRS and has processed
more than $20 billion in IRS tax payments securely over the last 20
years.
As more people embrace online and mobile for paying bills, ACI’s
OfficialPayments.com provides taxpayers with convenient options to
quickly and securely view, manage and pay their federal, state and local
taxes. In fact, 80 percent of IRS electronic payments made through ACI
are made online or via a mobile browser. Mobile alone saw an increase of
27 percent in IRS payments from 2017 to 2018, further validating
consumers’ increasing comfort with making secure payments through a
mobile device.
“We’ve invested in ACI’s bill payment solution to ensure a secure
process for taxpayers to manage incoming and outgoing payments during
tax season,” said Sanjay Gupta, executive vice president, ACI Worldwide.
“OfficialPayments.com has been utilized by taxpayers for 20 years, and
provides them with a quick, easy, reliable and secure way to pay their
bills. We’re excited to continue our partnership with the IRS, as it
validates the flexibility, scalability and overall power of our bill
payment solution.”
Bill payments that can be made through ACI’s OfficialPayments.com
website include the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), 22 state
governments, the District of Columbia, more than 2,400 local
municipalities and counties across all 50 states and 300 colleges and
universities. Consumers can pay federal, state and local property taxes
and other bills such as utilities and college tuition with credit cards,
debit cards and electronic checks via mobile, online
(OfficialPayments.com), telephone, point of sale and other channels.
About ACI Worldwide
ACI Worldwide, the Universal
Payments (UP) company, powers electronic
payments for more than 5,100 organizations around the world. More
than 1,000 of the largest financial institutions and intermediaries, as
well as thousands of global merchants, rely on ACI to execute $14
trillion each day in payments and securities. In addition, myriad
organizations utilize our electronic
bill presentment and payment services. Through our comprehensive
suite of software solutions delivered on customers’ premises or through
ACI’s private
cloud, we provide real-time, immediate
payments capabilities and enable the industry’s most complete omni-channel
payments experience. To learn more about ACI, please visit www.aciworldwide.com.
You can also find us on Twitter @ACI_Worldwide.
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Source: ACI Worldwide
Dan Ring
E-mail: dan.ring@aciworldwide.com
Phone:
781-370-3600
Nidhi Alberti
E-mail: nidhi.alberti@aciworldwide.com
Phone:
781-370-3600
