Business portal and standard business reporting
[ Last Updated 18 July 2008 ]
We will lead cross-agency efforts to simplify transactions between government and business, including developing the business portal (business.govt.nz) as the universal gateway to government for business.
We will do this by using the Ministry's substantial transactional online systems, such as the Companies Office, Intellectual Property Office, and Radio Spectrum Management systems, to draw traffic to the gateway. We will engage with other service delivery agencies, such as the Inland Revenue Department, Statistics New Zealand, and New Zealand Trade and Enterprise, to make the portal a "one-stop shop" for business dealing with government by mid-2009.
Local government is playing an increasingly important role in the delivery of services and the regulation of business, and we will therefore encourage local government to use the government business portal as the gateway for its engagement with business.
We will also investigate a standard business reporting proposal to streamline firms' financial reporting obligations. This would involve a technology-assisted process for business to file financial information once – in a form accessible by and appropriate for all government agency compliance requirements.
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