{"id":26997,"date":"2025-09-04T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-09-04T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.resourcepro.com\/bulletin\/dc-moves-surplus-lines-tax-filing-online-with-optins-starting-january-2026\/"},"modified":"2025-09-04T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T04:00:00","slug":"dc-moves-surplus-lines-tax-filing-online-with-optins-starting-january-2026","status":"publish","type":"bulletin","link":"https:\/\/www.resourcepro.com\/bulletin\/dc-moves-surplus-lines-tax-filing-online-with-optins-starting-january-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"DC Moves Surplus Lines Tax Filing Online With OPTins Starting January 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>DC<\/strong>| <a href=\"https:\/\/disb.dc.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/dc\/sites\/disb\/page_content\/attachments\/2025%2009%2004%20OPTins%20Bulletin%20Surplus%20Lines%20v2%20APPROVED.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Bulletin 25-IB-002-09\/04<\/a> <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">announces that, <strong>starting January 1, 2026<\/strong>, the <strong>District of Columbia Department of Insurance<\/strong>, Securities and Banking (DISB) will require all surplus lines premium tax filings and payments to be submitted electronically via OPTins<\/span>, discontinuing paper reports for these filings. This transition is intended to improve the efficiency, accuracy, and cost-effectiveness of surplus lines reporting in the District.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Key Points:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong><em>Effective January 1, 2026<\/em><\/strong>, all surplus lines reports and payments must be filed electronically through OPTins; paper filings will no longer be accepted.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Monthly reports remain required only if there is activity, but semi-annual reports are required even if there is no activity to report.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>OPTins is maintained by NAIC and charges a fee (minimum $3.00, maximum $17.50 per filing); registration and instructions are available on the OPTins website, and support is provided via phone.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/disb.dc.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/dc\/sites\/disb\/page_content\/attachments\/2025%2009%2004%20OPTins%20Bulletin%20Surplus%20Lines%20v2%20APPROVED.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Click here to see DC Bulletin 25-IB-002-09\/04<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":22559,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"department":[252],"state":[275],"class_list":["post-26997","bulletin","type-bulletin","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","department-department-of-insurance","state-district-of-columbia"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.resourcepro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bulletin\/26997","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.resourcepro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bulletin"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.resourcepro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/bulletin"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.resourcepro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bulletin\/26997\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.resourcepro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.resourcepro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"department","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.resourcepro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/department?post=26997"},{"taxonomy":"state","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.resourcepro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/state?post=26997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}