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Department of Revenue urges electronic notices as licenses and mailed correspondence surge
Summary
Department of Revenue officials told the revenue committee that licensed vendors have tripled in the past decade, creating substantial postage costs and compliance burdens. The department proposed using its YFS portal to deliver electronic notifications to filers while preserving mailed notices for paper filers.
The Wyoming Department of Revenue told the Joint Revenue Committee that electronic noticing and account-notification changes could reduce mailing costs and improve compliance after a rapid rise in licensed vendors.
Brett Fanning, excise tax administrator, summarized the department's findings: the number of licensed vendors has risen from about 16,000 in 2015 to roughly 26,000 in 2019 and to about 50,000 currently. He said "over half of those licenses have mailing addresses not in the state of Wyoming," and that roughly 9% of licenses use the same single Wyoming mailing address (about 4,000 licenses). Fanning reported that in December 2024 about 14,000 licensed vendors…
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