What’s New with ACES?

We successfully migrated the Accounting and Compliance Enterprise System (ACES) to an Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud solution. ACES is the primary system we use to manage California’s employment tax program for accounting, audit, collection, and data warehousing activities. As one of our most complex systems—with over 100 interfaces with internal and external systems—ACES is the second largest tax processing system in the United States, surpassed only by the Internal Revenue Service. ACES is used to process over $110 billion in annual payroll tax filings from California businesses. It also provides support for over 1.5 million active employers with extensive online self-service tools such as e-Services for Businessand Express Pay – where employers can easily and securely manage their payroll tax accounts.

What does this mean for California employers? AWS is the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud services to increase security and innovate faster to best serve you, our customers. We’ve built in significant improvements to safeguard these systems and recover in the event of a disaster. With these efforts, ACES is more resilient and scalable to meet the evolving needs of California businesses.