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How not to tank your sales tax audit (part 1)

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If you are a business that must collect and remit sales tax, an audit is probably one of your biggest fears. Rightly so: Sales tax audits can find fault with a variety of your operations and can cost you big– if the determination goes against you. Some states will levy a penalty on you for failing to file a zero return.

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5 Tips to Minimize Risk Associated with Sales Tax Audits

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If you are a business that must collect and remit sales tax, an audit is probably one of your biggest fears. In fact, our annual survey of financial professionals on sales tax trends has ranked sales tax audits as a top worry for the third year in a row. Not expecting an audit – Why would you get tagged for audit?

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Managing sales tax: Are businesses satisfied with the additional effort?

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More than a third of companies across all industries also report that their sales tax obligations aren’t big enough to warrant outsourcing the function – yet. Yet a third of companies said their processes to handle sales tax and nexus obligations required too much of their staff’s time. What’s keeping them up at night?

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Retailers/ecommerce companies face special sales tax challenges

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Retail/eCommerce respondents to our survey reported challenges such as audits, timely filing of sales tax returns and charging the correct sales tax. Not happy A quarter of retail and eCommerce companies who responded to our survey already file sales tax returns in 11-30 states and 69% sell into more than 30.

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New Sole Proprietors, LLCs, and Corporations Need Accounting and Tax Services

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Businesses are subject to a variety of tax laws, and accounting and bookkeeping help you ensure that you’re meeting all of your tax obligations. If you ever need to raise money for your business, investors and lenders will want to see that you have a good accounting system in place. To secure funding.

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How to Stay on Top of Your Tax Obligations

Ronika Khanna CPA,CA

Table of Contents As an accountant I frequently receive panicked calls from business owners who have received ominous letters from the tax authorities requesting that overdue tax returns be immediately filed. Others receive notices of assessments for estimated taxes payable if they have an overdue tax return.

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Best Practices for Nonprofits

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The accounting system is the basis for reports that must be provided to grant agencies, prospective donors, lenders, its independent auditors, tax preparers, the Board of directors and management. . A separate cost center should be set up in the accounting system for each funding source.