The Beaufort County Board of Commissioners’ Information Technology Committee meets at 3 p.m. Thursday to receive an update on the software conversion at the county’s tax office.

The tax office is upgrading its software so it can more efficient when it comes to processing tax-related information, tracking delinquent taxes and performing revaluations. The conversion is expected to take several months.

The county is spending about $300,000 on the conversion, said Tax Assessor Bobby Parker on Tuesday.

Farragut Systems, which is based in Durham, is providing the new software.

“We will convert everything that we have now into this new system. It will be a total conversion. We will put the new software system in and get rid of the old system we have right now,” Parker said.

In recent months, commissioners have said they want to move the county toward doing a better job of identifying delinquent taxpayers and collecting back taxes. At each of their recent regular meetings, the commissioners have been receiving lists of the top 50 delinquent tax accounts. They’ve made it clear the county will become even more aggressive in attempting to collect back taxes. Once unpaid taxes for a specific year become more than 19 years in arrears, the county no longer has the authority to go after those taxes.

They commissioners have also looked at conducting the next property revaluation earlier than usual. The county has been conducting a revaluation every eight years, which is required by law. Commissioner Stan Deatherage has been pushing for the earlier revaluation because he believes property values determined by the most-recent revaluation are not in line with market values.

The software conversion is expected to help improve the revaluation process.

The meeting will be conducted in the county administrative offices, 121 W. Third St., Washington.