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RECIPIENT: Michigan Michigan Business Portal
The state of Michigan has undertaken a multi-dimensional plan to continue to improve Michigan’s business climate. Two explicit objectives in this plan are to significantly reduce the time needed to begin operating a business in Michigan, and simplify subsequent transactions with state government. To this end, Michigan now offers a one-stop Business Services portal that allows new businesses to register for key tax identification numbers online in minutes and hastens the time it takes to begin operating a business by as much as six to ten weeks.
This electronic registration is complimented with a “self-service” web portal allowing businesses to create user accounts, giving them secure access to their very own, personalized business portal. This portal offers businesses a ‘paper-less’ option for interacting with government: using the Internet to file quarterly wage and tax reports, pay taxes, review historical data, and update information about their business. “We continue to use technology to make it easier than ever before to start up or run a business in Michigan 24 hours a day, seven days a week. The new online service is a single point of entry on the Internet to register for unemployment insurance and taxes, together with the award-winning MiTAPS portal which centralizes state licenses and permits, we’re making Michigan even more business friendly.” Jennifer M. Granholm, Governor, State of Michigan
Prior to the adoption of this technology, getting a business started was very time consuming, labor intensive and error-prone. To begin a business in Michigan, businesses must first apply for a tax identification number from the Department of Treasury. In the past this application form was key-entered and then sent to the unemployment agency. Businesses must also apply for an unemployment tax registration number. These are two different taxes, administered by two different agencies. In the past this process was initiated by using one form that was hand-carried between agencies for processing. Once a business received tax numbers and was ready to “do business in Michigan,” every subsequent contact, for the purposes of paying business taxes or unemployment taxes, or filing wage/tax reports, was done manually. The new service ends this paper intensive process.
Electronic filing for business registrations, and subsequent quarterly tax filing, is saving Michigan thousands of hours of labor spent on paper handling and error correction. Likewise, data entry contracts, document scanning contracts and costs of manually processing quarterly tax payments are being eliminated.
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Alabama Alabama Board of Nursing’s (ABN) Group Online License Status Check
Arkansas Online Franchise Tax Payment System
District of Columbia online LSDBE Business Center
Hawaii Hawaii Compliance Express
Idaho Online Idaho Business Tax Suite
Indiana Indiana Outdoor Licensing System
Kentucky Kentucky Business Finder
Maine Maine Bureau of Motor Vehicles Evidence of Insurance Online Submittal Service
Minnesota Machine Control at the Minnesota Department of Transportation
Montana Mt.gov TankHelper
New York uNYvation
Ohio Ohio Business Gateway - Business Tax Reform Project
Oklahoma Oklahoma State Treasurer's Electronic Trading System
Pennsylvania Pennsylvania WIC Any Authorized Vendor (AAV)
Rhode Island Rhode Island Business Tax Service
Texas TexasOnline Occupational Licensing Application
Utah The State Construction Registry
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