Nearly 62,000 business entities and nonprofit corporations are on file with the Department of Secretary of State, and each of those entities must file an annual report disclosing information about the management of the entity. Nearly 34,000 of the 49,141 total reports received as of June 1 were filed online using Maine's Annual Reports Online service, a 17 percent usage increase over June 2003.
The Annual Reports Online service, which is one of several offerings that can also be accessed via Maine's Interactive Corporate Services site at www.SOSonline.org, includes flexible features such as the reinstatement of suspended Maine entities and the ability to file multiple annual reports in one user session. Users may also save filings to be submitted at a later date and view all completed filings.
"More and more business owners are finding the Annual Reports Online service to be a very efficient and effective means to process their required corporate filings," continued Gwadosky. "Maine's Interactive Corporate services continue to prove extremely popular, as evidenced by impressive adoption rates."
Forty-eight electronic corporate services offered by Secretaries of State across the nation were recently benchmarked against Maine's Interactive Corporate Services. The survey found that few states can offer the depth and scope of online offerings, such as Maine's unique Authentication Service, which verifies the authenticity of all certified documents obtained through the Web site.
Annual Reports Online was developed with the assistance of New England Interactive, which manages the state's official Web portal on behalf of the Information Resource of Maine (InforME). For more information about Maine's online government services, visit www.Maine.gov.
About New England Interactive
Augusta-based New England Interactive built, operates, and maintains Maine's official Web portal (www.Maine.gov). New England Interactive also operates the official Web sites for Rhode Island and Vermont and is a wholly owned subsidiary of eGovernment firm NIC (Nasdaq: EGOV).
Quelle: Business Wire , 27.07.2004