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

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Complying with your sales tax obligations involves a lot of variables – your nexus, taxability of your products, type of customer you are selling to, etc. Another key factor that effects your sales tax obligations is related to exempt transactions and exemption certificates. This is where the XYZ letter comes into play.

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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. Documentation typically required by an auditor can include invoices, exemption certificates , summary reports, tax returns, and more.

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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.

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More Businesses Are Turning to Automation to Manage Tax on Purchases

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a provider of cloud-based tax compliance automation for businesses of all sizes, today released findings from a new survey of The survey findings reveal that A majority of businesses believe that use tax is challenging, with many indicating the cost of managing use tax obligations is high for their business. Avalara, Inc. ,

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The new breed of audit

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Audits remain an important tool for tax jurisdictions to evaluate the level, or lack thereof, of sales tax compliance within a business. Even though many audits have shifted to remote audit, the fundamentals of the sales tax audit haven’t changed. Virtual audits?can support and?can

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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. evidence of tax jurisdictions’?ramping ramping up audits remains?anecdotal,?but

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When You Need to Hire a Pro: Online Accounting Service for Small Business

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based financial team—bookkeeping, tax consulting, and tax filing all under one roof, available 24/7. Together you can determine the impact it will have on your taxes, your personal liability, the cost, and problems that could arise if you need to dissolve the registered entity, among many other things.