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Sales Tax Audits - The Danger Grows

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M any industry experts believe that as state tax revenues continue to dry up from the economic shutdown and continuing pandemic , state sales tax audits are likely to increase sharply in the coming months. No audit numbers – yet. Jurisdictions can discover your company’s nexus through audit – and not just an audit of you.

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Don't Test Your Luck with Non-Compliance

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sales tax audits ?are sales tax audits to increase over the next two years.? already seen an increase in audits over that same time. And i n Alaska, individual municipalities are? Jurisdictions can discover your company’s nexus through an audit – but not just an audit of you r business. and pandemic,?

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Sales Tax Issues for Online Retailers

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Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Colorado, and Louisiana are “home rule” states which permit the municipalities or counties to govern themselves with certain restrictions. Also, many states are hiring more sales tax auditors to audit more companies and identify related vendors who may not comply with sales tax.

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What’s new in sales tax?

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It did, but the South Carolina Department of Revenue later audited Amazon and found that it had failed to adequately tax sales by third-party merchants. Auditors slapped Amazon with some $12.5 million in taxes, penalties and interest for the first three months of 2016. BOI oh boy.

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Related to this I suppose, Alaska Public Media did a story on the city of Anchorage having some municipal audit problems : A long overdue financial audit of Anchorage’s bookkeeping may keep the city from getting tens of millions of dollars in grant money. This applies not just to audits but to other services as well.

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