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3 Sales tax pitfalls facing manufacturers and wholesalers

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Many manufacturers, wholesalers, and distributors believe they have minimal sales tax obligations due to the likelihood of  sales tax-exempt transactions. Businesses don’t always fit into a “box” as being only a manufacturer, or only a distributor. Many times, a manufacturer is also a distributor. It depends.

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Sales Tax Obligations for Manufacturers and Wholesalers, Part 1: Resale Certificates and Exemptions

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Many manufacturers, wholesalers, and distributors believe they have minimal sales tax obligations due to the likelihood of sales tax-exempt transactions. Businesses don’t always fit into a “box” as being only a manufacturer, or only a distributor. Many times, a manufacturer is also a distributor. Manufacturers.

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Exemption certificate management and audits

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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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5 Key Findings from TaxConnex’s 3rd Annual Sales Tax Trends Report

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Findings from the third annual Sales Tax Market Survey indicate that a perfect storm is brewing for financial leaders in the new year. Companies still struggle to navigate workforce shortages and retention of internal expertise, yet they remain highly dependent on in-house resources to perform many of the vital functions related to sales tax.

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

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Our third annual survey of financial professionals across accounting, manufacturing, construction, software and technology, retail/eCommerce, telecom and others showed that many industries face sales tax challenges and that financial leaders continue to lean on internal resources to get the job done. What’s keeping them up at night?

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What's New in State Sales and Use Taxes - Monthly Update

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There’s always something changing in the world of tax, especially sales tax. State sales tax revenues and their local portions are reported up from Auburn, N.Y., Many other states are finding more late-2021 sales tax revenue to funnel toward local governments. billion in sales taxes for December, $101.9 to Mukilteo, Wash.,

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Options in Mitigating Past Sales Tax Liability

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Most businesses don’t set out to be non-compliant with sales tax, or anything for that matter. In fact, you probably have the best of intentions of meeting your sales tax obligations in the future. But what about sales tax liability from prior months? When do your sales tax obligations and liability start?

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