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The new breed of audit

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Usually, you learn about an audit through a notice or letter from the state or jurisdiction in question with instructions on how the audit will proceed. Many audits are conducted remotely, and an auditor never visits your office. Fear and perception of audits are as tangible as the real examinations. Fear and loathing.

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Tips to Ensure You Don't Mishandle a Sales Tax Audit

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Managing a sales and use tax audit can be challenging. First, you should always anticipate an audit – even if you’ve never been audited before. While they are definitely becoming more frequent as states try to crack down on economic nexus laws, rarely are you given advanced notice as to when an audit will occur.

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7 Ways a Business is Selected for Audit

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sales tax audits ?were sales tax audits to become more common over the next two years. 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 How does a business get selected for an audit? anecdotal,?but

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Here’s Why Maryland Paid the IRS $5.4 Million in Taxes

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million to the Internal Revenue Service after a rare IRS audit of the state found it owed millions of dollars in taxes in 2020. Smith School of Business, told The Baltimore Sun he wasn’t surprised to see the IRS conduct a payroll audit, even if he wasn’t sure how often the agency examines state governments. 2—Maryland has paid $5.4

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Blog: The 'XYZ Letter' and your sales tax compliance

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An XYZ letter is a letter sent to a seller’s customers and serves as an affidavit that the sales tax obligation has been satisfied by the customer. This is generally through a use tax accrual and payment by the customer to the state, or the customer is assessed under audit and pays the applicable sales tax due.

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What triggers a sales tax audit and how do you reduce the risks?

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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. What is a sales tax audit?

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Opinion: The IRS Shows What Government Efficiency Really Looks Like

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The study is an accounting of the cost of in-person audits carried out by the Internal Revenue Service relative to the taxes paid as the result of the audits. These in-person audits, in contrast to “correspondence audits” in which the IRS asks for information via letter, can be labor-intensive and expensive to administer.