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• Do I need to submit a hard copy of the BE-140 form if I am submitting the form by fax or eFile?

• How do I obtain a blank copy of the survey?

• The address and the contact person listed are no longer current. How do I update this information?

• How should I file the survey?

• How do I request a filing extension?

• What is the Secure Messaging System and how do I use it for the BE-140?

• When is the survey due?

• Can my company be exempted from filing? At what level of detail should this survey be filed?

• Why does my company need to complete the BE-140?

• What are the insurance transactions categories covered by the survey?

• Do I need to report if I did not have cross border insurance transactions during the reporting period?

• Do I need to report my insurance transactions if I was not contacted by BEA about the survey?

• Why did my company receive this survey?

• Does BEA maintain longitudinal versions of its survey microdata, such as the Census Bureau’s Longitudinal Business Database?

• Does the content or coverage of the BEA surveys change over time?

• Are responses to BEA surveys voluntary or mandatory?

• Do BEA surveys collect common business identifiers that can be used by special sworn research consultants to link the BEA data to commercial data sets?

• Can BEA data be linked to data from commercial data sets like those of Standard and Poor’s or Bureau van Dijk?

• Can BEA data be linked to data from other agencies participating in the Federal Statistical Research Data Centers program?

• What is the unit of data collection on the BEA surveys?