December, 2021
Communication with Trading Partners Regarding DISGF/DISNGF BETCs
ARC encouraged customers to communicate with their trading partners regarding the recording of Business Event Type Codes (BETCs) for Intragovernmental Payments and Collections (IPACs) beginning October 1, 2021. The communication requested the transition from BETC DISB to either DISGF/DISGFAJ or DISNGF/DISNGFAJ as directed by the General Fund of the U.S. Government. To appropriately inform each customer of the BETC which should be utilized for specific transactions, ARC researched past and current federal to federal buy/sell activity. The research covered the scenarios of customers acting as the Seller as well as the Buyer in the transaction.
To decide which new BETC to use when ARC's customers were the Sellers in a transaction, ARC provided logic contingent on the Main Account of the customers' Trading Partners. The logic stated that for Trading Partner Main Accounts falling between 0000 and 5999, the default BETC would be DISGF or DISGFAJ, and for Main Accounts 6000 to 8999, DISNGF or DISNGFAJ would be used. ARC asked customers to distribute the information to its Trading Partners by September 3, 2021. In the event a Trading Partner did not agree with the logic, communication was requested by September 20, 2021 to allow time to resolve the conflict. Otherwise, Trading Partners were notified that ARC would be implementing these changes on October 1, 2021.
It was also necessary to provide communication as to which new BETC Trading Partners were to use in recording transactions where ARC's customers were the Buyer. ARC analyzed all customer obligations to understand which funding group was associated with each obligation. From there, a determination was made as to whether the TAS associated with the obligation would require both DISGF and DISNGF as defaults so the correct BETC could be used. In the event a TAS had used both BETCs, ARC then provided guidance of which BETC was deemed appropriate based upon a further breakdown of the TAS involving the Authorization Duration associated with it. For example, did the annual appropriation TAS of a fund family might call for DISGF while the no-year TAS called for DISNGF. ARC asked customers to distribute the information to its Trading Partners by October 15th and requested that Trading Partners adhere to the change no later than October 31st.
Any questions regarding the information related to this new BETC implementation can be addressed by contacting the Agency Intragovernmental team at Intragov@Fiscal.Treasury.gov.