BLS Partner Post - October 2021 Update

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ATLAS trainings are popular with partners

Partners rate training a success

More than 60 attendees joined BLS system trainings this summer as Revenue rolled out ATLAS updates. 
Trainings included a detailed walk-through of the online application, providing partners insight into how business owners manage their licenses online.
Partners told BLS they liked the free trainings and ongoing system support.
“(BLS should) continue to have these collaborative trainings. This is good and helps partners to understand DOR's processes and system,” wrote one attendee.

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Washington grows 20% of the nation's potatoes.
Many are processed in new partners Algona & Warden.

More local partners add combined licensing

More communities are joining the local licensing partnership this fall. 

By late spring, about 200 city and town partners will use the combined licensing service to support their local commerce. 

The newest BLS partners are:

• Rock Island, joined Oct. 7, is just downstream from Wenatchee. The small city boasts the first hydroelectric dam to span the Columbia River.

• Kittitas, joined Oct. 14, a city of 2000 residents seven miles east of Ellensburg is home to a historic railroad depot that started operating in 1883. 

• Warden, joined Oct. 21, is in Grant County, which produces more potatoes than any other county in the world.

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  Pioneers first settled the Kittitas Valley in the 1860s

  Pacific, joined Oct. 28, and Algona, joining Nov. 2, are adjacent cities along State Route 167 just south of Auburn. The bedroom communities are home to more than 10,000 residents combined in the fast-growing suburban area southeast of Seattle. Pacific, founded in 1909 in the Green River Valley, has more than 600 registered businesses. Algona is home to Tim’s Cascade Snacks, which started making extra crispy potato chips in 1986.

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Reminder: Businesses should contact Revenue's call center 

Use https://dor.wa.gov/contact-us to help
businesses connect to Revenue support

Help your licensees and local businesses by directing them to Revenue’s call center for support. Find phone numbers, chat links, and resources at dor.wa.gov/contact-us.

Operators will direct questions to staff experts. BLS Partnership Services staff, however, are dedicated to working with government partners that administer licenses. The Partnership team does not have the same access to business information as front-line staff dedicated to working directly with businesses and taxpayers.

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Access ATLAS every 60 days to avoid getting locked out

ATLAS access is locked down
when not used for 60 days.

ATLAS is Washington State’s secure tax and licensing management system used by thousands of public employees. Registered users who do not regularly access the system will be locked out as a security precaution. Remember to login via My DOR or SecureAccess.wa.gov at least every 60 days to avoid being locked out of your ATLAS system access. It can take up to 10 business days for reauthorization.