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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. 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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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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Facing Tax Problems: Your Path to Financial Freedom with Mike Habib, EA

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Life has a way of throwing us unexpected challenges, and for many individuals and businesses, tax problems are among the most daunting. Contact us for professional tax help today! Section 1: The Weight of Tax Troubles The Burden of Tax Audits Facing a tax audit can be like walking on a tightrope without a safety net.

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Why Microsoft’s $29 Billion Tax Bill Could Be the Big Knockout Punch in Fight with the IRS

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By Clint Rainey, Fast Company (TNS) Way back in 2012, the IRS launched the largest-ever audit in history, accusing Microsoft of stashing billions in offshore tax havens to dodge U.S. It possessed documents where giddy executives had reveled in their “pure tax play.” billion in back taxes plus penalties and interest.

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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 offers audit defense and?support

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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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