The Ohio Business Gateway is pleased to announce that electronic filing services for the Ohio Department of Development's InvestOhio tax incentive program are now available. This includes investor and small business enterprise registrations and, starting December 5, investment applications.
For more information about InvestOhio, please visit the Ohio Department of Development's InvestOhio website.
The Ohio Business Gateway is pleased to announce that electronic filing services for the Ohio Department of Taxation's Consumer's Use Tax Amnesty program are now available.
For more information about the Consumer's Use Tax Amnesty Program, please visit the Ohio Department of Taxation's website.
In April 2011, OBG added a new "Favorite" transactions/services feature. In recognition of the growth in the number of transactions and services now available on the Gateway, users now have the ability to configure a small set of favorites that will appear on their home page above the existing box for starting a service or transaction. This will provide users with a faster means of selecting frequently-accessed transactions.
Please visit the OBG Electronic Filing Help section for more information on this new feature.
In October 2010, the Ohio Business Gateway completed updates to align our services with accepted practices for password management.
All OBG Electronic Filing users will be required to change their password during their first login after October 19, 2010. Existing passwords are used during this process. If users do not change their password, they can not login. Some users will notice that they are being required to change their password sooner than six months. How much sooner depends on how frequently the user logs in and the date of the last password change. Once the password has been changed, the user is taken immediately to the company home page within OBG as normal.
After this initial password change, users will be reminded in the future to change their passwords approximately every six months. After six months, users will be warned on-screen that their password should be changed. A grace period will be provided, permitting logins with the existing password to continue. However, if a password is not changed, it will eventually expire. Expired passwords will require a password reset causing a system-generated password to be emailed to the user.