LANSING – The Michigan Treasury website, after much tweaking for the past year, now offers Michigan businesses an easy option to pay taxes online with just a single log on and password, instead of multiple ones used in year’s past.
Effective immediately, businesses can upload their W-2s and other wage statements, request fuel credit refunds and perform other paperless taxpayer duties through a cleaner, redesigned website. For the last year, Treasury has worked to make ifs online site an effective and user-friendly resource for business taxpayers by improving and expanding its internet services.
About 100,000 Michigan businesses have been using the online service, spokespersons said in an interview with MITechNews.Com Editor Mike Brennan.
“Treasury is committed to enhancing our taxpayer services and experiences,” Michigan Treasurer Nick Khouri said. “We carefully listened to the business community about what works and what doesn’t work when conducting business online. As a result of those conversations, changes were made to the Michigan Treasury Online website to ensure our taxpayers are adequately served.”
Treasury Analyst Sarah Russell said before the online site was optimized, businesses had to use multiple existing platforms to perform eCommerce. Now Michigan Treasury Online has become a one-stop spot where one user name and one password speeds the process.
“Development and release of MTO functionality has been going on for the past calendar year,” Russell said. “We did Quality Assurance before we released it to the public. We feel most confident MTO is where it needs to be.”
Russell added the Michigan Treasury hopes to stay ahead of the curve when compared to other states.
That said, Susan Martin, a Treasury Managers, said one more enhancement is slated for MTO once the funding is approved. She said that would be confirmation when payments are received. The next step will be the ability to pay other business taxess.
Through Michigan Treasury Online (MTO), businesses can:
- Create and maintain personal user profiles to access web services
- Use a single sign-on for all MTO related services
- Electronically register a business for Michigan business taxes
- Connect to Treasury business accounts through a variety of platforms
- Manage registration information with Treasury
- File and pay Sales, Use and Withholding (SUW) taxes and Essential Services Assessment (ESA)
- Print and save tax return drafts
- Print or retrieve emailed confirmation numbers
- Manage payments and payment information
- View and print all filed returns and payments
- Request fuel credit refunds
- Upload W-2 and other wage statements
- View Treasury-issued correspondence and sales tax licenses
By the close of 2017, Treasury hopes to have 160,000 SUW taxpayers actively using Michigan Treasury Online, accounting for approximately half of Michigan’s SUW taxpayers.
To get started with MTO, visit www.michigan.gov/mtobusiness.
