Hogan Administration Announces New Maryland Business Express Website
12 März 2018 - 5:48PM
Business Wire
Multi-Agency Collaboration Makes it Easier to
Plan, Start, Manage, and Grow a Business in Maryland
Inspired by Governor Larry Hogan’s Regulatory Reform Commission
recommendations, the Maryland State Department of Assessments and
Taxation (SDAT) today unveiled Maryland Business Express, a new
website that will make it easier for Maryland’s small business
owners and entrepreneurs to plan, start, manage, and grow their
business. Accessible at businessexpress.maryland.gov, the new site
combines information previously spread across many state agencies
into one, easy-to-navigate site, while also providing a clear
outline of the steps involved in starting a business.
Maryland Business Express also features a digital assistant
designed to communicate with and deliver guidance to Marylanders 24
hours a day, 7 days a week. This “Chatbot” is the first of its kind
to be used by any state government specifically for business
purposes.
“Since taking office, our administration has been committed to
ensuring Maryland is Open for Business, and since that time, we
have become one of the top states in the country for
entrepreneurial business growth,” said Governor Larry Hogan. “Now,
Maryland Business Express will make it easier than ever to start a
business, and will provide quick access to the many tools and
resources that Maryland agencies have to offer to support our small
business job creators.”
The site’s layout is based on the questions most commonly asked
by existing business owners and aspiring entrepreneurs, and
contains four main sections: Plan, Start, Manage, and Grow. The
Plan and Start sections list orderly steps that guide entrepreneurs
through the process of developing a business plan, registering a
business, and applying for tax accounts and licenses. The Manage
and Grow sections help business owners remain in good standing,
make legal changes to their business, and find additional programs
that best fit their needs.
“Our Department’s goal is to allow Marylanders to interact with
the state any time it’s convenient for them, and the new Maryland
Business Express will move us closer to that goal than ever
before,” said SDAT Director Michael Higgs. “This new website will
be a tremendous benefit to Maryland’s business community, and the
feedback we receive will allow us to continually update content to
better suit their needs.”
The new site was officially unveiled today at the Hogan
administration’s public cabinet meeting in Calvert County.
Over the past few years, SDAT has focused on making government
services more accessible to the hundreds of thousands of Maryland
businesses that interact with the Department annually. Recent
efforts to provide more services online have resulted in dramatic
improvements in processing times, including a reduction from 10 to
four weeks to start a business. Today, more than 50 percent of all
documents are filed online, 40 percent of which occur outside of
normal business hours and 20 percent of which are done through a
mobile device. SDAT’s online services process more than 250,000
transactions annually.
The new Maryland Business Express is another step toward
allowing customers to interact with the state any time it’s
convenient for them. The site and Chatbot are currently in beta
mode, and as users type in questions and submit feedback through
the customer experience survey, Maryland agencies will continue to
improve the content.
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