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ERC IRS Audit Representation: Your Comprehensive FAQ Guide

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ERC IRS Audit Representation: Your Comprehensive FAQ Guide The Employee Retention Credit (ERC) has been a lifeline for many businesses during challenging times, providing substantial relief. However, with the IRS actively scrutinizing ERC claims, it’s crucial for businesses to understand their rights and options when facing an audit.

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Friday Footnotes: How Much Big 4 Spent on Lobbying Last Year; Super Bowl Bets; CFOs Feeling Good | 2.9.24

Going Concern

IRS warns tax professionals to be aware of EFIN scam email; special webinars offered next week [ IRS ] The IRS warned that scammers are posing as tax software providers and requesting EFIN documents from tax professionals under the guise of a required verification to transmit tax returns.

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4 Key Pieces of Your Sales Tax Compliance Process

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In a few states, most notably Alabama, Colorado, and Louisiana, there are separate local level returns that you are required to file. Colorado alone has 73 home-rule jurisdictions each requiring their own sales tax return to be filed. Don’t get tripped up by specialty tax rates (non-sales tax rates).

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How to manage sales tax obligations

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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. Your staff can be trained for the specific sales tax needs of your company, and you’ll have an in-house resource for future questions.

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The 10 Trickiest States for Sales Tax Filing

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Of the 45 states (plus the District of Columbia) that have a general sales tax, 10 stand out as being especially tricky for sales tax compliance: Arizona, California, Colorado, Florida, Illinois, Louisiana, Missouri, New York, Tennessee, and Texas. To illustrate the knottiness, here are some examples.

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Friday Footnotes: PwC Partners Get Played; Bad Accounting on the Rise; Getting to the Bottom of the Shortage | 9.1.23

Going Concern

Audit Battle lines drawn over auditors’ role in combating fraud [ AccountancyAge “Patisserie Valerie pushed the issue of auditor responsibility [for fraud detection] to the fore after so many accounting scandals. EY Assurance teams now process over 775b lines of journal entry data each year, as part of the EY digitally transformed audit.

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Sales tax and nonprofits

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Any sales tax exemption for a nonprofit depends on the transaction’s relation to the organization’s main mission. Location, location, location 501(c)(3) organizations are exempt from sales tax on their purchases in Colorado and in Utah. Most states, like Michigan , require special registration for exemption.

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