MUNIRevs Founder and CEO Erin Neer was named by Colorado Biz Magazine as one of the GenXYZ 2014: 25 Most Influential Young Professionals in Colorado, according to a MUNIRevs news release.

MUNIRevs, short for Municipal Revenues, is a Web-based software solution that collects sales taxes and processes business license renewals for towns and municipalities. It’s headquartered in Dolores.

She was chosen from more than 300 applicants in the state. The Top 25 met one another and received awards at a ceremony Thursday evening at the Mile High Station in downtown Denver.

“The process is quite competitive and required us to write essay responses explaining our accomplishments,” Neer said in the news release. “We were chosen because what we’re doing is very innovative and unheard of in our industry.”

Neer was the former finance director for Mountain Village in Telluride and used her experience to envision easier and faster ways to solve sales-tax questions, and, thus, devised the paperless method for municipalities to process the huge amount of revenue they collect, the release said.

Her method eliminates the need for businesses to mail in their taxes, and the need for municipal staff to manually open the mail, key it in and process the payments.

MUNIRevs provides a paperless business review solution for Colorado municipalities. Colorado is one of the few states that still allow municipalities to collect, monitor and audit sales-tax revenues.

“We are proud to serve our communities and create jobs here,” Neer said in the release.

The company serves more than 10,000 businesses in Colorado.

vguthrie@durangoherald.com