Register a New Business
Who needs to register?
If you are starting a new business in Indiana, you may need to register with the Indiana Department of Revenue.
You will need to register your business with the Department if you:
- Will be selling products or tangible items (sales tax)
- Have employees (withholding tax)
- Sell food and beverages (sales tax and food-and-beverage tax)
- Rent accommodations for less than 30 days (innkeeper's tax)
- Rent motor vehicles (motor vehicle rental tax)
- Distribute gasoline or special fuel (prepaid fuel tax)
- Sell tires (tire fee)
- Sell fireworks (safety fee)
To register your business with the Department, you must submit a Business Tax Application (BT-1). The form allows you to set up the appropriate tax accounts for you.
For more information about business taxes, visit the New and Small Business Education Center.
If you are an independent contractor doing business in Indiana, click here.
How do I register?
To register your business with the Department, you must submit a Business Tax Application (BT-1). The form allows you to set up the appropriate tax accounts for you.
To register your business, you can:
- Submit your BT-1 online, which reduces the time it will take to register with the Department.
- Download Form BT-1, fill it out, and mail the completed application to:
Indiana Department of Revenue
Systems Services
P.O. Box 6197
Indianapolis, IN 46206-6197If you mail in your BT-1, it will take approximately 4-6 weeks to complete the registration process.
- Take the completed BT-1 application to any of the Department’s district offices for sameday service.
Please note that you must complete a separate BT-1 for each location you want registered. If you wish to consolidate tax filings for all or some of your locations, you may choose to complete Form BT-1C (Authorization for Consolidated Sales Tax Filing Number).
- Find Indiana tax forms.
- Know when I will receive my tax refund.
- File a nonresident Indiana tax return.
- File my taxes as an Indiana resident while I am in the military, but my spouse is not an Indiana resident.
- Take the renter's deduction.
- Pay my tax bill in installments.
- Claim a gambling loss on my Indiana return.
- Have more time to file my taxes and I think I will owe the Department.
