Working at the speed of business - reducing registration approval
from 10 weeks to one day
Company Website:
http://www.maryland.gov
ANNAPOLIS, Md. -- (Business Wire)
Maryland Business Express has been recognized by the Center for Digital
Government with a prestigious Digital Government Achievement Award
(DGAA) in the Government-to-Business category highlighting
next-generation, best-of-breed digital government solutions.
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Michael Higgs, deputy director for the state department of assessments & taxation, accepted the Maryland Business Express DGAA award in the Government-to-Business category. (Photo: Business Wire)
Maryland Business Express is a digital “one-stop” where business owners
can register a new business, create legal entities, create trade names,
establish state tax accounts, obtain certified copies, and file annual
personal property returns.
“Being recognized for our efforts in the government to business
transaction category only further echoes Governor Hogan’s promise of
being open for business here in Maryland,” said Sean Powell, director of
the department of assessments and taxation. “Our department has worked
tirelessly over the last year with work groups of local stakeholders to
pinpoint exactly what was needed in a portal. This national recognition
demonstrates Maryland's commitment to transforming government services
and ensuring they work at the speed of business.”
More than 75 percent of all sole proprietorships and general
partnerships are now filed online with more than half of all filings
occurring outside of regular business hours. This reinforces the
importance of having a business registration system that is accessible
any time of the day or night.
Prior to Maryland Business Express, entrepreneurs and business owners
were subjected to a lengthy manual paper application process that
required in-person visits to multiple agencies and took 10 weeks for the
approval process. Now, through Maryland Business Express, approval times
have been reduced to one day.
Maryland Business Express reduces the points-of-entry eliminating the
time, expense, and risk of managing conventional paper and postage
registration.
Kyung Endres from True Pancea stated, “It was very easy, very well laid
out, and the results were extremely quick. This site has taken the
headache out of the registration process.”
It is through services like Maryland Business Express that the state of
Maryland creates efficiency, not only for the businesses who use the
application, but also within the state agencies. Maryland Business
Express is a collaborative effort between the Departments of Assessments
and Taxation, Commerce, Information Technology, and the Comptroller of
Maryland.
About NIC Maryland
NIC
Maryland builds, operates, maintains, and markets the official
website of the state of Maryland, www.maryland.gov
and its digital government services. NIC Maryland is a collaborative
public/private partnership managed by the Department of Information
Technology (DoIT) and NIC Maryland. NIC Maryland helps Maryland state
and local government entities web-enable their services and operates
without tax funds through a self-funded digital government services
contract. NIC Maryland has developed dozens of digital government
services for the state of Maryland since the contract was awarded in
August 2011.
About NIC
Founded in 1992, NIC (NASDAQ: EGOV) is the nation's leading provider of
innovative government solutions and secure payment processing, which
help make government more accessible to everyone through technology. The
family of NIC companies provides digital government solutions for more
than 4,500 federal, state, and local agencies in the United States.
Forbes has named NIC as one of the “100 Best Small Companies in America”
six times and the company has been included four times on the Barron’s
400 Index. Additional information is available at http://www.egov.com.
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Contacts:
NIC Maryland
Janet Grard, 443-924-7405
jgrard@egov.com
Source: NIC Maryland
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