TaxConnex

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

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. Not expecting an audit. Why would you get tagged for audit?

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TaxConnex

APRIL 11, 2023

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. If you sell items considered tangible personal property (e.g.,

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TaxConnex

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Your sales tax obligations depend on knowledge and that knowledge often resides in a professional tax specialist (usually an accountant) who helps your company meet its sales tax obligations. This is a complicated time for sales tax obligations – and a terrible time to try to hire an accountant. There were about 1.65

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TaxConnex

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

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. The heat seems to be increasing regarding online sales, sales taxes and tax revenue.

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TaxConnex

JULY 20, 2023

Maintaining current, valid exemption certificates is critical in managing your overall sales tax risk. Under audit, an otherwise exempt sale will be deemed taxable without such documentation from a customer – and just a few missing certificates can result in large penalties and interest.

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TaxConnex

MAY 18, 2021

sales tax audits ?were sales tax audits to become more common over the next two years. of respondents said they believe audit levels? of respondents said they believe audit levels?will already seen an increase in the number of audits in the past two years. ramping up audits remains?anecdotal,?but

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ThomsonReuters

MAY 12, 2022

What triggers a sales tax audit and how do you reduce the risk of an audit? Almost all companies undergo a sales tax audit at some point. This sales tax audit guide can help indirect tax teams avoid common audit triggers and manage the sales tax audit as smoothly as possible.

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TaxConnex

JUNE 15, 2021

Why are you paying more penalties for missed notices and late payments than you were before you started working with your sales tax vendor? The good news is there are other providers that put the client first and ensure sales tax is managed correctly. Will you help me monitor my sales tax obligations? in every state?

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TaxConnex

OCTOBER 26, 2021

When we talk with businesses about sales tax compliance, we eventually get to a discussion about preparing and filing returns. However, I encourage businesses to consider the myriad aspects that need to be managed including updating your tax filing calendar, managing sales tax notices, monitoring their nexus thresholds, etc.

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Going Concern

JULY 31, 2023

Currently KPMG, Deloitte and EY provide both consulting and audit to both the public and private sector. Originally they were just audit firms,” he said. Then the audit firms decided to create this problem by going off and doing their own consulting and the whole thing’s got out of hand.”

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TaxConnex

AUGUST 8, 2023

Valid exemption certificates from your customers are critical in managing your overall sales tax risk. Under audit, an otherwise exempt sale will be deemed taxable without such documentation. Review your records as an auditor would by looking for exemption certificates that align with exempt transactions.

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Withum

DECEMBER 19, 2023

As these companies gain traction and seek external investments, audited financial statements play a crucial role in instilling trust among stakeholders, investors, and potential partners. 10 Key Steps Here are the key steps startup e-commerce companies can take to prepare for their audited financial statements.

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TaxConnex

OCTOBER 4, 2022

So you’ve done the smart thing and determined that your company has sales tax obligations in various states. Now you must collect, file, and remit sales tax in multiple states. You then need to create a billing process to apply tax to your invoice, manage your sales tax-exemption certificates and prepare and file sales tax returns.

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Going Concern

MARCH 31, 2023

auditors who believe their part of the firm could end up weakened by a deal. EY executives, have emerged as key opponents to the firm’s plan for a worldwide split of its auditing and consulting arms, according to people familiar with the matter. John King and Frank Mahoney, senior U.S. He previously held various tax roles at KPMG.

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TaxConnex

JUNE 27, 2023

Staying on top of your sales tax obligations is crucial to maintaining compliance and avoiding costly penalties. However, navigating the complex world of sales tax filing is a lot for a business to manage without the right expertise. Software cannot provide personalized advice or handle complex sales tax situations that may arise. 

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TaxConnex

JULY 6, 2023

In part 1, we looked at the mounting financial costs of maintaining sales tax compliance with the thousands of tax jurisdictions nationwide. Rolling the dice What have companies done to avoid complying with sales tax regs where they have economic or physical nexus? Do not collect sales tax and fail to remit it. That’s fraud.

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Going Concern

MAY 19, 2023

Special Report: KPMG Canada beats Big Four accounting rivals in net new client gains [ Canadian Accountant ] For the second year in a row, KPMG Canada has surpassed its Big Four rivals in net new audit client gains, helping to offset the loss of a controversial company as an audit client. Chinese companies switch auditors to avoid U.S.

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Going Concern

APRIL 7, 2023

Client warns consultants about using ChatGPT-like bots for proposals [ Australian Financial Review ] Consulting firms risk misrepresenting what their firms can and cannot do when using artificial intelligence chatbots to develop sales proposals, a procurement specialist has warned.

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CPA Practice

JANUARY 17, 2023

Eide Bailly sees risk awareness driving growth in sales tax automation. Sales taxes continue to be one of the most dynamic and risk prone areas of business operations, particularly since so many businesses are still not fully aware of their compliance requirements. Auditors are becoming more active. Wayfair, Inc., Wayfair, Inc.,

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TaxConnex

JULY 27, 2021

An exemption certificate is used to exempt an otherwise taxable transaction from sales tax. In the absence of a valid resale certificate, an auditor is likely to assume the transaction was taxable. As a result, it’s critical for the seller to maintain copies of these resale certificates in the event of an audit. Why ‘resale’?

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Withum

JANUARY 25, 2024

Using a forensic account is essential in developing a strategy to handle and defend the findings of a cash-based audit. This becomes even more critical in instances where additional non-tax related charges may be possible or if the audit may result in criminal charges. Why a Forensic Accountant?

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Withum

JANUARY 24, 2023

Although an independent financial statement audit may not gain the day-to-day attention of management the same way as growing revenue or projecting cash flows; for many, there will come a time when an audit becomes a vital part of the company’s lifecycle. Auditors can only work as quickly as the requested information is provided.

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CPA Practice

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

What’s the most effective way for tax and finance departments to handle tax-exempt sales? Any time you don’t charge a customer sales tax on a taxable transaction, you need to collect an exemption certificate — or make sure you have a valid certificate on file. What’s their secret? Avalara and Hanover Research teamed up to find out.

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TaxConnex

JANUARY 18, 2022

There’s a lot of talk in sales tax about nexus, thresholds, forms, filing and many other details of compliance. One often overlooked aspect of compliance, but extremely important, is the sales tax exemption certificate. An exemption certificate is used to exempt an otherwise taxable transaction from sales tax. Exempt’ from what?

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ThomsonReuters

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Today, ESG is resulting in significant opportunities for auditors, fueled by the widening range of stakeholders calling for ESG prioritization, an influx of laws and regulations pertaining to ESG, and a rise in ESG investment products. What is the role of the auditor in ESG reporting? The future of ESG accounting.

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TaxConnex

MARCH 16, 2021

Patrick’s Day, don’t look to four-leaf clovers, pots of gold or leprechauns to bail you out of trouble with sales tax. If your company has a sales tax obligation s and doesn’t have a process yet in place, plan for the risks of non-compliance. sales tax audits ?are sales tax audits to increase over the next two years.?

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Going Concern

DECEMBER 5, 2022

In an article for CoinDesk , Francine McKenna took a crack at why the FTX debacle happened, and like she always does when there ’s really bad accounting at a company going through a financial crisis, who are/were the auditors: It’s not clear why FTX commissioned two different audit firms to audit its 2020 and 2021 financial statements.

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Going Concern

MARCH 11, 2024

” Getting right into it… Morale is down at EY UK after a few rounds of layoffs: Staff in EY’s UK deals business have hit out at the company’s management for the way recent job cuts were handled, saying “trust is broken” and that employees feel “deflated” as sales in the department slump. But this is not the fight for No 10.

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Going Concern

JULY 7, 2023

Allegro said it had reached a binding term sheet on the sale, with the new business to be called Scyne Advisory and fully independent of PwC. The paper, “A Welfare Analysis of Tax Audits Across the Income Distributed,” published in June, is based on an analysis of about 710,000 in-person audits of individuals from 2010 to 2014.

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Withum

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

It is no surprise that states are seeing significant growth in sales tax revenue, a trend fueled by changes in consumer spending during the pandemic. The third reason for higher sales tax revenue was the Wayfair decision in which the Supreme Court expanded the physical nexus requirement to include economic nexus (e.g.,

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Going Concern

JUNE 29, 2023

Although Big 4 audit fees have increased so much in the last several years clients wrote a strongly worded letter to complain about it , PwC UK told its 25,000 staff last week that things will be tight this year. PwC’s most junior auditors are paid between £26,000 and £34,000 a year depending on location, an insider said. billion ($2.2

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TaxConnex

DECEMBER 29, 2020

An exemption is an exception that eliminates the need to pay sales tax. The presumption is that all sales of tangible personal property are taxable unless specifically enumerated. The purchaser has the responsibility for determining whether a sale is exempt from tax. Understanding all the aspects of sales tax is complex.

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Going Concern

APRIL 12, 2023

Bloomberg has reported that Silicon Valley Bank auditors KPMG have been sued — along with underwriters Goldman Sachs, Bank of America, and Morgan Stanley — after SVB’s spectacular collapse on March 10. KPMG audited the bank for nearly 30 years. We knew this was coming.

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FraudFiles

DECEMBER 10, 2021

You are being audited. These are some of the most dreaded words an individual or business will ever hear from a state or federal tax auditor. Blame and shame have no place in a tax audit. Arguing about who and what to blame does not help the company combat an aggressive auditor. Every number could be scrutinized.

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SMBAccountant

DECEMBER 16, 2020

There are 3 phases; 1) feasibility, studies, and software production, 2) distribution, and 3) sales. These different methods of accounting for R&D costs can be audit hot spots for both the government contracting and IRS auditors. Only the production phase can be capitalized. All other costs must be recognized when spent.

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Cherry Bekaert

APRIL 4, 2024

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Going Concern

APRIL 28, 2023

This time it is related to their audit of TheWorks.co.uk, a discount retailer specializing in arts, crafts, toys, books, stationery, and perpetual fire sales of various cheap stuff with which to clutter your domicile and desk drawers. Another day, another Financial Reporting Council fine for KPMG. What did they do?

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