Business licenses allow your business to operate legally.
Without complete and up-to-date licenses, your business can face fines, closures, delays, and other penalties. While core to running a successful business, compliance with over 150,000 federal, state, and local licensing agencies across the U.S. is no small challenge.
Making compliance easy is our mission at Harbor Compliance. This guide provides an overview of business licensing and some of the best practices we’ve developed based on managing license compliance for clients of every size, in every industry, and from 28 countries abroad.
This white paper provides an overview of business licensing and best practices for making your compliance efforts easy. In this white paper you will find:
- Types of licenses, registrations, and permits
- An explanation of local licensing, corporate filings, tax registration, and industry-specific licensing
- Common business events that trigger new licenses, license amendments, and license cancellations
- Solutions for managing licensing compliance for your business