The Portal provides a centralised electronic gateway for Emirate-wide information dissemination between the Abu Dhabi Government and its customers. Through its two gateways, citizen and business, the portal provides citizens, residents, visitors and businesses with a single point of access to more than 600 services and 200 general information p...

The main objective of the government portal in Angola is to bring all governmental public information and services under the same platform and to make them available to citizens vie the internet. Angolans can thus find information on government programs, and are given the option to send their views and comments to the government. The system inc...

ASYCUDA (Automated System for Customs Data) is a computerised customs management system, which covers most foreign trade procedures. It has been installed or is being implemented in over 90 countries and regions world wide. The system handles manifests and customs declarations, accounting procedures, transit and suspense procedures. Furthermore...

Régime dérogatoire mis en place à compter du 1er janvier 2009 pour les personnes qui exercent ou souhaitent exercer une activité indépendante sous forme d'entreprise individuelle et qui relèvent du régime fiscal de la micro-entreprise.

BizFile is an award-winning online filing and information retrieval system. It offers close to 300 e-services, serving as a one-stop facilitator for businesses. All steps required for company cration are described in detail and can be completed on-line.

This Company Creation Portal is a step-by-step guide for starting a business in Germany and provides detailed explanations on all required actions in a transparent and simple way. All the necessary information on locations, services and administrative procedures as well as required forms and documents are available on the web-site, which also p...

The Building and Constructions Authority offers different online services for construction-related matters. The website provides information on all necessary steps for construction projects and the related legislation as well as the possibility to download and submit application forms for construction permits online.

The Saudi Arabia General Investement Authority (SAGIA) has implemented Business Centres which serve as One-Step Shops in the nine cities Riyadh, Jeddah, Dammam, Hail, Jazan, Medina, Abha, Tabuk and Najran. The Centres simplify investment and entrepreneurship porcesses by bringing together representatives of offices from all relevant governme...

This service allows individuals with certain nationalities to get direct entry visas without having to apply for them at the borders of the state. The visa is valid for 2 weeks and renewable for additional 2 weeks. The service can be accessed 24 hours a day from anywhere in the world.

Business.gov helps small businesses understand their legal requirements and locate government services from federal, state and local agencies. Small business owners no longer need to visit multiple websites to find government programs, forms, contacts, and guidance with laws and regulations. Through its unique, award-winning search tools a...

Businesslink.gov.uk is the official website of the UK Government for businesses of all sizes. It helps people to succeed in business by providing simple, clear and authoritative information, transactions and support. More and more business facing content and transactions, from a wide range of government websites, are being made available via...

The CADE is a one-stop-shop for administrative procedures grouping under one roof more than 30 municipal and national administrations. Ten CADES are already operational in the city of Bogotá.

The ChileClic Portal is an online registry of procedures, where citizens can obtain information on all services offered by the governement. This also includes information on procedures and services related to starting and conducting micro businesses as well as small and medium enterprises.

Bahia's Citizen Assistance Service Centers (SAC) bring together federal, state, and municipal agencies in a single location. One representative of each ministry is present at the one-stop-shop and has full capacity to deal with requests. The Assistance Centers offer the services that citizens most frequently need and use. They are located in pl...

The web site of the French Company Creation Agency offers detailed explanations on all the procedures necessary to start, operate and quit a business. It also displays the costs involved in each procedure and offers various interactive tools, which allow the entrepreneur to identify the right contact persons for specific issues related to a par...

The Company Registration Portal of Mauritius offers the following online services: Incorporation of a company Filing annual returns and other documents Payment of registration fee Registration of a business Search for company/business names and other details Entrepreneurs can register their company wi...

On-line registration of a company is possible within 24 hours, while detailed descriptions of each step are provided.

The portal contains detailed explanations on all steps required for company and intellectual property registration. It takes two to three weeks to register a company in South Africa, while a part of the procedure can be completed online, e.g. necessary forms can be downloaded, filled in and lodged electronically.

Corporations Canada provides detailed explanations on all steps required for compnay registration. For the four Jurisdictions Saskatchewan, Ontario, Newfoundland & Labrador and Nova Scotia are the entire process can be completed online. For the other Canadian jurisdictions, one has to register directly with them (also possible online on the...

A user friendly tool, which guides applicants through all the steps required for company registration. The majority of the procedure can be completed online, while the entire company creation process takes three days and can be carried out in a single place, with no need for a notary.

The Estonian company creation portal allows company creation online not only to Estonian national but also to holders of Belgian, Finnish, Lithuanian and Portuguese IDs. The average time to register a company online is 68 minutes. The fastest case is 18 minutes and the maximum time required for the completion of the registration is two working ...

This web portal allows online access to business visas and entry permits. The required fees can be paid online via direct debit.

The E-Government Portal of Bahrain is a "one stop shop Portal" and is the key service delivery channel for individuals, business, government and visitors, which integrates and provides all types of vital services. The Portal, available in Arabic and English, is aligned with the Bahrain Strategic Vision 2030 to provide informational, int...

The Government of Jordan’s national e-Government initiative, launched by His Majesty King Abdullah II, aimed to drive the nation’s transformation into a knowledge society founded on a competitive, dynamic economy. Jordan remains committed to this national vision. As part of its efforts to transform its society, economy and g...

e-invest is a Web-based software, intended for all government agencies that manage investment applications. Its primary function is to expedite the flow of project information by allowing involved parties to share all information in real-time.

Since 1 January 2005, the paper tax return forms have been replaced by an electronic tax return filing programme. Companies can file their income tax, corporate tax and turnover tax returns free of charge via the Internet. An overview of filed and outstanding tax returns is available on the website.

The ElsterWeb online Tool, developed and maintained by the German Tax Authorities, allows companies and entrepreneurs in Bavaria to file all tax declarations online and free of charge. Furthermore, the eTool enables other administrations and organisations (e.g. municipalities) to exchange tax data online with the German financial and tax author...

The organizational scheme Empresa no dia (enterprise in a single day) allows for establishing companies in Cape Verde - immediately and at the same day, in an attending balcony of the Citizen’s House. This company creation process includes the facultative registration with the chamber of commerce, registration at the Portal Porton di nos ilha a...

Comprising infromation from different government agencies, this government portal focuses primarily on the needs of businesses and assists them in finding the government information and services they need. In 2005 the EnterpriseOne team conducted surveys, focus groups and one-on-one usability tests gathering more than 500 responses, which co...

Builders in Dubai can apply for "no objection" certificates, building permits and completion certificates online. The website also provides links to Civil Engineering Department construction regulations, submission requirements, location maps of departments, useful contact numbers and answers to FAQs.

All taxes relevant for businesses can be filed online with the Croatian Tax Authority. The eTool enables users to download, fill and submit tax declaration forms, receive receipts of delivery and check the status of their declarations online. Since January 2010, 1.527.748 visits have been recorded (as of 20/04/2010).

The e-regulations system is a turn-key e-government tool providing full transparency in administrative procedures. It allows governments to present procedures online in a detailed and precise way, in several languages.

The tax administration in Panama issues the certificate of good standing online. Furthermore, all tax declaration forms can be downloaded online.

The electronic one-stop-shop system e-Vem allows company creation online, using one single form, at no cost at all. The registration process takes less than a week and the initiative has resulted in savings of €10.2 million a year for Slovenian SMEs.

The simplification consists of exempting 75.000 small businesses in Denmark from the obligation to have an accountant examining the businesses annual report/financial statement. The small businesses can now choose whether they wish to have an accountant examine/attest their annual report. In 2006 the realised cost reduction through...

As part of its National Anti Corruption Strategy, Georgia passed the Law on Licences and Permits on 24 June 2005, which aims at creating a competitve business environment by making procedures clear, transparent and predictible. Licences and permits, which could not be probably explained and justified, were removed, resulting in a decrease in th...

This web portal provides information on all e-services provided by the government to citizens and businesses. It informs on the importance and features of E-Government and offers related statistics.

Gobiernoenlinea.gov.co is an integrated access to every government agency website in Colombia. Citizens, businesses and foreigners are able to e-mail government representatives, search for government-related information, verify the requirements for government procedures, perform online transactions and offer suggestions on blogs and discussion ...

GovHK is the one-stop portal of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR)Government, making information and services of the public sector easier to find and use. The business section offers a wide range of key information for business. Companies are incorporated in four days in Hong Kong; they can initiate activities right after in...

The Procedures and Services Guide of the city of Bogota in Colombia contains inter alia detailed explanations on paths and procedures for creating and running businesses, paying taxes, trading as well as social security.

The Horeca Portal is a one-stop-shop for hotel, restaurant and café licenses. It helps entrepreneurs and SMEs to easily find out how to obtain the seven local licenses required in the City, by answering questions on-line and filling out a single form.

As an online resource for e-Government development in Singapore, iGov.Sg charts the progress of the nation's e-Government masterplans and provides information on e-services and information and communication initiatives by different government agencies that align with the key thrusts of the current masterplan. These include central projects t...

All required steps for company creation are explained in detail, including the length of procedures as well as locations and necessary documentation. The process of company incorporation can be followed online.

The E-Government development driven by the Korean government in the past two decades improved both efficiency and quality of public services that placed the country at the forefront among the e-governments around the globe. A standardized business process system called On-Nara BPS has been introduced to improve efficiency and transparency. O...

Landonline provides land professionals with secure access to New Zealand's only authoritative titles register and digital cadastre maintained by LINZ. The functionally smart system enables registered users to conduct secure electronic title and survey transactions in real time, automating and speeding up traditional (and sometimes prolonged ...

Chapter V of Law 241/90 of 7 August 1990 provides for right of access to administrative documents. Public bodies must respond to requests within 30 days. In case the public authority does not reply within that time frame, the so-called "silence-is-consent rule" applies, i.e. once the deadline has passed, the authorisation is considered given.

The law aims at providing small- and microenterprises with a special legal treatment to boost entrepreneurship among these groups. By this law the government reduces and simplifies tax requirements, duties and credit obligations in order to stimulate the creation of SMEs and micro enterprises.

The new french law on company creation is a break-through in terms of facilitating business and widening the scope of potential entrepreneurs. Several processes were grouped into one, which creates a one-stop shop for company creation in France. For the first time, the law allows for companies to be created online (see the corresponding E-Tool ...

Licença Eletrônica is an E-Portal, which enables citizens from the municipality of Sao Paulo to obtain a business licence on line for free. The aim is to formalise micro and small entrepreneurs who are operating within the informal economy. Therefore, only entrepreneurs owning less than 1500m² of space (for conducting business) can obtain th...

The Ministry of Foreign trade's Portal outlines information from key governmental partners and the ministry's overseas trade offices to serve and maintain the country’s commercial relations with regional and global organizations in order to maintain and promote our competitiveness in the global market. This Governmental portal provides an inter...

The National Portal of India has been developed as a Mission Mode Project under the National E-Governance Plan of the Government. The objective behind the Portal is to provide a single window access to the information and services being provided by the Indian Government for the citizens and other stakeholders such as businesses. An attempt h...

The National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) administers online the assignment of work to unskilled workers in the Andhra Pradesh province, in application of a Government Act ensuring at least a guaranteed wage of 100 days in every financial year to any household whose members volunteer to do unskilled manual work. The website provide...

The One Stop Centre for Warehouse Construction Permits in Hong Kong S.A.R. is a centralised office for receiving submissions of plans and related applications (such as those for excavation permit, telephone line connection, technical audit for drainage and water supply connection works, etc.), as well as coordinating joint inspections to be...

The Economic Development Board of Madagascar provides a One-Stop Service for company creation for investors and entrepreneurs. All required forms can be downloaded from their website and in total 5 procedures are necessary to complete the company registration process, which takes 7 days.

As of the 1st of January 2008, business entities requesting the status of a commercial legal entity and physical persons who prefer to carry out business activities without creating a legal entity need to apply to only one state agency, that is to the relevant unit of the Ministry of Taxes. Only after submitting the necessary documents conta...

At this one-stop-shop investors are attended by representatives of Customs, Immigration, the Work Permit Department and the Company Registrar. It takes only three days to incorporate a company, against 21 days before. The exemption of imported goods used to take at least ten days, the process has been reduced to one day; the time for obtaining ...

Companies in Slovenia can be created in a single place with a single form, either online or through 270 single entry points, in less than a week, at no cost at all. Slovenia is the second country in the EU, after Denmark, to eliminate all start up fees.

One-stop-shop with delegates from 8 institutions authorized for issuance of permits and licenses for the import and export of goods.

Panama Emprende is a new concept where people wishing to start new businesses in Panama may do it in a simple way, with the sole obligation of informing the State that they are starting a new operation. The only step required for the start of a commercial, industrial or servicices activity in the territory of the Republic of Panama will be the ...

PanamaEmprende allows people to open their business, in a few minutes, in an electronic way, without the need for queues, procedures and additional costs. With this new system for the opening of companies, Panama is ranked among the first in the world in terms of speed and easiness to open companies.

The web site provides step-by-step explanations for all required actions for company creation in Switzerland. The applicant answers specific questions, which lead him to the relevant application sections. According to a study of the Winthertur University in Zurich, start-ups save up to 50 per cent of the time usually required to incorporate ...

The main objective of this portal is social inclusion: the creation of SMEs and micro enterprises is encouraged by informing the large part of society that operates informal businesses about the benefits of formalisation.

The Cape Verde E-Government portal, Porton di nos ilha, offers a variety of services for citizens and enterprises. Particularly relevant is “Empresa no dia” (enterprise in a single day), a public service that allows the establishment of enterprises similar to a Joint Stock Company and/or limited company - within one day. Establishing an enterpr...

According to the 2010 Doing Business Report, Guatemala is the most efficient Latin American country in property registration (rank 24). The General Property Registry of Guatemala has recently improved its E-services considerably. The property registration web portal offers the following products and services on-line: Comprehensive inf...

The Land Register in Estonia is fully computerised, accessible online and all register parts are valid electronically. It is composed of: Register parts (which are opened for each immovable). Real rights in immovable property are created, amended and extinguished by making an entry. A land registry archive holds the documents s...

A step-by-step on-line guide to registering a company in Australia. The majority of steps can be completed online. Only registered ASIC agents are able to complete the procedure online, individuals must lodge a manual form, which can be downloaded from the website. The processing time, once the form is filed, is between 24 and 48 hours.

Registering property in Georgia takes only three days and requires two steps (payment of the registry fee with a bank and registration at the Public Registry). The World Bank's Doing Business Report 2010 ranks Georgia as one of the most efficient countries in property registration world wide (rank 2).

The law creates rights for users to access the data collected on them by the administration as well as the rights and processes of administrative actions and decisions. It specifically mentions the access to information on procedures (e.g. "every administration is compelled to communicate to users correct information on the procedures and forma...

Service Canada was created in 2005 and is an E-Government portal that aims at improving the provision of government programmes and services to Canadian citizens to ensure they are delivered in a fast, easy and convenient manner. Service Canada offers access to a wide range programs and services of the Government of Canada for citizens thr...

Servic-Public.fr is the official website of the French civil service. It aims at simplifying administrative procedures for citizens, professionals and associations as well as at informing them about their obligations and facilitate the access to legal texts. Hence, it serves as an important interface between civil service and private citizen...

The Serviço de Contra Prova has revolutionised the way administrative authorisations and certificates are issued in Cape Verde. Each authorisation/certificate corresponds to a unique number, which de facto represents the document. Authorisations/certificates can be submitted or requesteed either the traditional way (Counter Service) or via t...

The silence-is-consent rule was introduced in Mauritius in 2006. Public authorities are obliged to reply to requests for business licences within three working days. If the time needed to respond a request exceeds three working days, the receipt that acknowledges that the applicant has filed for the permit, becomes his actual business licenc...

Through the introduction of the Single Window Principle for the inspection of goods and transport means in January 2009, the State Customs Committee of the Republic of Azerbaijan has eliminated unnecessary interferences during these inspections. The Single Window Principle consolidates health, agriculture, veterinary and transport under one sin...

The SNIAC Project is included in the political measure of administrative modernization aiming at endowing the Cape Verde State with a system of secure and consistent identification. Covered areas: Determination of Central and Civil Registration : to improve Civil and Central Investments in order to better address the death matter...

An electronic data interchange system for solvency, tax and social security contributions and providing export services to government.

All required steps to register a company can be performed on the web-site. Detailed explanations on each step as well as animated demos are also provided.

Startups.ch is an electronic platform serving as a one-stop for company creation. All required forms can be filled and submitted online. The procedure takes in average 30 - 60 minutes. After successful submission of relevant data, the applicant will be contacted by the Startups.ch agents, who will generate all the necessary documentation for co...

The Rwanda Revenue Authority introduced a "Block Management System (BMS)" in 2009 to recruit more tax payers through installing tax offices in districts where small businesses operate. The BMS also aims at reducing the size of the informal sector to increase the tax net. The system targets small taxpayers by demarcating the areas in which th...

In Rwanda, the Tax Clearance Certificate (a document stating that all tax payments have been settled) can now be obtained online, which represents considerable time savings to the taxpayers.

The main purpose of the system is to provide taxpayers with the assistance needed when they opt for filing the tax return form via the web site. It provides four main services: access to institutional information and to relevant laws, rules and regulations; downloading of forms; online submission of the tax return form; and online issuance of t...

Since 2006, incorporating a business in Georgia is free of charge, with three interactions and a maximum of three days. The total number of licenses and permits was reduced by 84%, in reforms that eliminated 756 licenses and permits and streamlined procedures. Furthermore, the Silence is Consent Rule applies, i.e. the registration authority ...

The Service Directive 2006/123/EC of the European Parliament made an obligation to all EU countries to set up, in a maximum of three years, physical and online points of single contact at which an applicant may complete all the necessary formalities for accessing and exercising a service activity. The Directive has had a strong stimulating e...

The Armenian Law on Licensing was adopted on 30 May 2001 and contains the “silence-is-consent” provision as one of its major features. It states that “when the application for receiving a license is not decided within the given time period [30 days] mentioned in this part, the application shall be deemed satisfied and the applicant may comm...

The E-Government Portal TT Connect is part of a broader programme to improve the overall efficiency and effectiveness of Government service delivery. At present it focuses broadly on three categories of users, namely citizens, businesses, visitors and non-nationals and provides the following government services online: applying for national hou...

USA.gov's objective is to provide a free service, enabling the global community to easily and rapidly find U.S. government information that has been posted on the Internet. It offers a powerful search engine and an index of web-accessible government information and services to help the users find what they need.

Detailed guide to company creation in Catalunya, including a description of required steps. All related forms can be downloaded from the web-site.

The www.gov.sg Portal is the electronic communication platform of the Singapore Government. It serves as a convenient gateway for individuals and businesses to locate information about the Singapore Government - such as news and speeches, information resources, e-services, events calendar and contact information of public service agencies and o...