Employer Reporting of Wages and Taxes
Employers, everything you need to know about reporting your employees' wages and taxes in a variety of electronic and paper formats is on this webpage. For Tax year 2000, service will also be available via the Internet, according to the Social Security Administration.

Texas Uses the Web to Simplify Business Sales Tax Filing
October 25, 1998--The State of Texas--the same Texas that launched a successful performance review under the leadership of Comptroller John Sharp in the early 90s that saved taxpayers billions of dollars--keeps working to make government cost less and work better. The State has now simplified business sales tax filing. Analyst Stuart Greenfield says "Our agency has recently deployed an application that allows 'no-tax' due sales tax payers the capability to file these type of returns over the Web." It's called WebFile and you will find it on the agency's Window on State Government site.

"This application builds off the Telefile system the agency has used since 1996," Greenfield said."Both applications share the same database and a procedure is in place to extract the return data and port it to the agency mainframe to update taxpayer records."

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Federal workers are doing amazing things to deliver government serviceselectronically. Access America E-Gov E-Zine wants to tell these stories.

We are looking for stories about federal agencies, or multi-agencypartnerships, that are providing simplified employer tax filing andreporting.

These stories can be short, as in a "byte" of about 150 words, or theycan be longer feature stories. Write feature stories in plain languagewith quotes from customers who experience the service electronicallyand quotes from federal employees and their partners who deliver theservice.

Include a contact person with phone number and email address. Sendyour stories to pat.wood@npr.govor pat.smith@gsa.gov. If youneed more information, call Pat Wood, National Partnership forReinventing Government, (202) 694-0063. Please pass this request alongto others who may be interested.