Some developers serve their clients by maintaining and providing the data necessary for filing forms with the Wisconsin Department of Revenue (DOR). Many do this by reproducing DOR forms within their own product. Often, this involves extensive programming by the developer to validate and ensure acceptance of the data before submittal.

Municipal Assessment Report direct electronic filing package - MARDirectElectronicFilingPackage2024v4-0.zip

Package Contents

• Schema - the schema folder contains the XML schema. The schema is broken into separate files for different parts of the form. To validate a MAR XML filing file, you need all the schema files.
• Examples - these are XML instance files showing how the schema is used
• SLF Direct Electronic Filing.docx - a Microsoft Word document explaining the overall filing architecture. The information explained in this document is not MAR specific and applies to all electronically fillable forms published in 2019 and beyond. Though not MAR specific, you should read and understand the information provided here.
• MAR.docx - a Microsoft Word document providing an explanation of MAR specific issues. There is also a change log at the end showing changes made to the schema after the first public release for the year.

Examples

• MarWithoutTids.xml - filing for a municipality without TIDs
• MarWithTidNNCSample1.xml - filing for a municipality with TIDs
• MarWithTidNNCSample2.xml - filing for a municipality with TIDs. This example has a TID with multiple school districts.
• MarWithSplitTidNNC.xml - filing for a municipality with a split TID. There is really no impact on the filing; we created this example since the question was asked.