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Best Practices for Managing a Sales Tax Audit

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The Sales Tax Institute reports that Maine, Illinois, California, Massachusetts, Wisconsin and Washington have been the most aggressive states in sending notices and audit requests. Industry observers look for New York, Ohio and New Jersey to soon intensify enforcement. Treat the auditor respectfully.

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Recent Cases Show You Shouldn't Mess with Sales Tax Obligations

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The company has paid nearly $69,000 in restitution for sales tax it collected and failed to pay to state coffers between June 2011 and December 2015. The case was referred to investigators after an auditor found that the business hadn’t filed quarterly sales tax returns or remitted sales tax collected for that period.

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Friday Footnotes: EY’s Six CEO Candidates; Deloitte UK Partner Payouts Increase Again; IIA Gets Their Way | 9.29.23

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Smucker — makers of Smucker’s jam, Folger’s coffee and Jif peanut butter — has an innovative return to office policy. The company expects each of its roughly 1,300 Orrville, Ohio-based corporate workers to be on site for 22 “core” weeks a year.

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Friday Footnotes: ‘KPMG Did Not Know What They Were Doing’; Are You Boring?; PCAOB Warns About Confirmations | 3.25.22

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I would have thought that accountants would be seen as boring, but effective and the perfect person to do a good job on your tax return,” Wijnand Van Tilburg, a study co-author and senior lecturer in the university’s psychology department, said in a statement last week. Louis worked as a Tax Examiner for the IRS from 1985 to 1994.

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Friday Footnotes: The Profession vs. Gen Z; CPA Firms Get Back to the Office; Deloitte Quits | 6.23.23

Going Concern

Audit “When you are a hammer, the world is a nail” – SEC and PCAOB Senior Staff Signal Increased SEC and PCAOB Gatekeeper Enforcement [ Lexology ] SEC Enforcement and PCAOB Enforcement both are pursuing more significant sanctions against auditors, particularly with respect to civil money penalties. 31 is still not finished.

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Friday Footnotes: Big 4 Culture Gets Slammed Again; Audit Leads the Way in AI; Small Firm Gripes | 11.10.23

Going Concern

They also expect auditors to understand and evaluate processes and controls, analyze transaction-level data for anomalies, and test more data in real-time,” said Scott Flynn, KPMG vice chair—Audit, in a news release. Earnest and Randell were separately convicted of individual counts of preparing false tax returns.

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Friday Footnotes: Working 100 Hours a Week (For Real); 99% of Firms Short on Staff; The EY Power Struggle | 8.4.23

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Trump-Tied SPAC Hits Another Snag as Auditor Abruptly Resigns [ Bloomberg ] Special-purpose acquisition company Digital World Acquisition Corp. said in a filing Tuesday that its auditor Marcum LLP — which has been riddled with regulatory problems of its own — abruptly resigned.