The Multistate Tax Commission (MTC) is soliciting proposals from vendors to design and implement a multistate electronic tax registration system. The system must enable multistate taxpayers to register to report and remit tax simultaneously in a number of jurisdictions on a "one-stop shopping" basis. The MTC will certify vendors to provide this service. Certification will be dependent on each vendor meeting project technical and privacy criteria. Any vendor so certified may offer its services directly to taxpayers on a competitive basis. Certified vendors will be responsible for establishing and maintaining interfaces with participating states and with taxpayers; no state will be expected to modify its existing systems in order to participate in the project. The MTC will maintain a webpage listing the certified vendors and providing taxpayer access to those vendors by a system of links. The project is intended to both accommodate conventional registration under the current system, and to be easily adaptable for users of the Streamlined Sales Tax System. Please refer to the Streamlined System's website at http://www.geocities.com/streamlined2000/ for a description of the Streamlined System. From the user's perspective, the system must provide for a seamless registration process that does not require the user to register separately with each state.
Interested vendors should contact Sheldon Laskin at slaskin@mtc.gov or (202) 508-3807 for more information, including copies of the project documentation referred to in the policy statement.
The project's initial focus will be sales and use tax and business activity taxes, such as the corporate income tax. The MTC welcomes and encourages all vendors to work with us in its effort to serve as an electronic portal for multistate tax registration. The attached policy statement is intended to provide vendors with an overview of requirements for participation.