Released on March 19, 1998
Economic and Co-operative Development Minister Janice MacKinnon today
said she is pleased the 1998-99 provincial budget supports the
government's commitment to reduce the paper burden for small business.
"In addition to reducing and simplifying regulations, small business
has asked us to reduce their paperwork burden," MacKinnon said. "The
Department of Finance is now changing the filing requirements so that
more businesses will be able to remit sales tax returns on a quarterly
or annual basis.
"This one measure from just one department will reduce the paperwork
for over 4,000 small businesses. It's an important example to other
government departments and agencies," MacKinnon said.
In addition, the departments of Finance, Justice, Workers Compensation
Board and Economic and Co-operative Development are currently working
in partnership to develop a pilot one-stop business registration
system that would further reduce the paper burden for small
businesses.
"We will soon be operating a pilot project that will provide
electronic registration for starting a new business and reduce the
number of government agencies an entrepreneur has to go to in order to
get registered," MacKinnon said.
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For more information contact:
Debbie Wilkie
Economic and Co-operative Development
Regina Phone: (306)787-1691
