J.H. Cohn Meets Short Deadline Using CT Corporation
J.H. Cohn, a New York-based midsized accounting and consulting firm, found itself in a challenging position – it needed to manage a new project that required business registration in 46 states. Along with submitting registration applications to each of the state's Secretary of State and Department of Revenue offices, J.H. Cohn needed an outside service to manage the time-consuming process of following up on the applications, ensuring that all attachments were provided and necessary forms completed. To answer this need, Andre Sansil, senior tax consultant, began working with CT Corporation’s Business Licensing Services.
“The customer service was excellent. CT Corporation responded very quickly, even if they couldn't answer my question right away they got back to me saying that they would look at it. Communication should always be open, and they did a good job of responding quickly.” Andre Sansil
According to Sansil, he brought in CT Corporation because this was a particularly time-sensitive project – and all signs pointed to many more projects like these to come. Where these matters are typically handled in house, for a project of this scale and urgency, Sansil needed a trusted outside source to handle the process. CT Corporation was able to get all of the state applications out in four days, where Sansil said it would have taken his in-house team twice the amount of time. Sansil credited this timely action to CT Corporation's automated business licensing system and dedicated, experienced team.
“I worked with another provider once to do the Secretary of State filing before I knew that CT Corporation did business licensing work as well. Had I known the other provider didn't do half of what CT Corporation did, including sales tax registration, I would have worked with CT Corporation much earlier.” Andre Sansil
CT Corporation was also able to handle the time-intensive task of local registrations. Since some states administer local taxes, they also require their own local registrations. CT Corporation handled the registrations for each of the 46 states and 39 additional local jurisdictions.
Sansil also made note of CT Corporation's excellent customer service for being incredibly responsive and knowledgeable of the industry.
The six month relationship that Sansil has had with CT Corporation has already grown into future projects in the pipeline.