TaxConnex

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Your sales tax obligations depend on knowledge and that knowledge often resides in a professional tax specialist (usually an accountant) who helps your company meet its sales tax obligations. This is a complicated time for sales tax obligations – and a terrible time to try to hire an accountant.

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TaxConnex

OCTOBER 20, 2020

When looking at all that goes in to maintaining your business’s compliance in sales tax, the filing of your returns is often seen as one of the easiest tasks. To be sure you have that, you must understand the difference between sales tax, seller's use tax, and vendor's use tax. Pick the right form.

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TaxConnex

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Sales tax is not something top of mind for most executives, but it is something that the majority of businesses will have to manage at some level. No matter the size of your business, if you are selling a taxable product or service and establish nexus in specific states or jurisdictions, then you have a sales tax obligation.

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TaxConnex

MARCH 26, 2024

We are at the end of Q1 of 2024 and continue to discuss how to ensure your business is set up to get sales tax right in 2024. If you’re like the over 49% of businesses who participated in our annual sales tax trends survey and are unsatisfied with the way you are managing sales tax, then you’re in the right place.

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TaxConnex

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Know what word in sales tax also has five letters? Few issues in the area of tax are more terrifying than this kind of exam from a tax authority. Sales tax audits can certainly become nightmares – but they can be handled, too, with the right steps, allowing you and your business to move forward.

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TaxConnex

AUGUST 10, 2023

Your online business is painfully aware of tax deadlines for income, payroll, property and other local taxes. Sales and use taxes have their deadlines, too – a dizzying number to follow, potentially with bad consequences if you miss even one. A lot of complications Currently, sales tax across the U.S.

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TaxConnex

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Now it’s time to register with the states to collect and remit sales tax. You complete your sales tax registrations and file them with the departments of revenue or taxation in each state. These registrations are called sales tax permits, sometimes licenses. The correct type of tax. Where to begin?

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TaxConnex

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Nonprofits are often thought to be exempt from sales taxes, but is that correct? Other stats say more than 2 million charities exist that are tax-exempt according to Internal Revenue Service rules. Are non-profits exempt from sales tax obligations? These same organizations are not necessarily exempt from sales tax.

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TaxConnex

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

(We generally recommend that companies start watching their nexus requirements when they hit the $100,000 in sales in a state. Companies also must always consider how physical presence , such as offices or even just sales reps, can create nexus.) They also take the burden of sales tax obligation off the seller.

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TaxConnex

AUGUST 1, 2023

You sell an item to a customer, they decide for whatever reason to return it, and you give them a refund. Except when sales tax becomes involved. One in every five … What are the odds your online company will have to deal with returns and make refunds? And the state or local sales tax you also charged on the purchase?

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TaxConnex

OCTOBER 3, 2023

There’s always something changing in the world of tax, especially sales tax. billion in tax revenue on sales tax holidays that offer breaks on such goods as back-to-school or disaster-preparedness items. The other prevalent argument is that sales tax holidays are a way of giving tax relief.

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Going Concern

JANUARY 10, 2024

According to court documents and statements made in court, Gil instructed his manager and internal bookkeeper to create false sales numbers for his restaurants that underreported cash sales by approximately $5.1 In total, Gil caused a tax loss to the IRS of approximately $1.6 In addition to the term of imprisonment, U.S.

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TaxConnex

JUNE 1, 2023

Last time, we looked at trailing nexus and a few reasons you might want to cancel your sales tax registration with a state. You also have to ascertain your “trailing nexus,” if any, due to a time lag in your sales that won’t end until sometime in the future. So, is cancelling your sales tax registration simple?

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TaxConnex

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Automated sales tax software promises to manage your filing and payments, but there’s more to sales tax compliance. Wayfair opened the way for all states with a statewide sales tax to now have economic nexus thresholds set by dollar amount or volume of sales.

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TaxConnex

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

In our blog last week, we looked at how sales and use tax advisory services might be a good new field for CPAs and accounting firms. Another cost-effective approach to adding sales and use tax advisory services: partnering with sales and use tax experts. Review the sales tax payable account.

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TaxConnex

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

You might think that collecting the tax and filing a tax form is all you need to be sales tax compliant. Ideally, all your sales tax calculations are managed in one system to produce a single report each month with details of all your sales and use tax liabilities.

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RogerRossmeisl

APRIL 30, 2024

Before 2024, American car purchasers were only eligible for the new electric vehicle (EV) credit of up to $7,500 or the $4,000 credit for used EVs when they submitted their tax returns in the subsequent year. This year, the IRS has received almost 100,000 reports on the sale of electric vehicles.

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TaxConnex

AUGUST 31, 2023

Online selling of products and services triggers sales tax obligations today like never before – and has ever since the Supreme Court’s 2018 Wayfair decision unleashed economic nexus on e-commerce merchants nationwide. The thresholds can be a dollar amount in sales, a set number of sales or a combination.

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TaxConnex

DECEMBER 28, 2021

And that means that more companies may find themselves with new sales tax obligations. eCommerce sales – topping the $200-billion mark for the first time. How does this impact sales tax obligations? Then there’s the danger of sales tax audits. billion in U.S.

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TaxConnex

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

If your business has an obligation to collect and remit sales tax, then you know how complex the process can be. Automating part or all of the sales tax process is sometimes necessary to maintain compliance. However, in my experience, sales tax automation can be counterproductive in certain situations.

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Technology Sales Tax tax return 222

TaxConnex

APRIL 6, 2023

The 2018 Supreme Court Wayfair decision gave us a bright line standard for determining sales tax nexus: Generate a set amount of revenue in a state in a set amount of time and your company has to collect and remit the applicable sales tax. Managing sales tax is burdensome. Seems clear.

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TaxConnex

MARCH 7, 2023

Our third annual survey of financial professionals revealed a sales tax storm in many industries. Retail/eCommerce respondents to our survey reported challenges such as audits, timely filing of sales tax returns and charging the correct sales tax. How do these cart platforms handle sales tax?

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TaxConnex

APRIL 13, 2023

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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TaxConnex

APRIL 14, 2022

Sales tax is more complicated than ever, especially in a post-Wayfair world. And what’s worse is that everyone who says they’re simplifying sales tax is still leaving the hardest parts – and the liability – up to you. Sales tax registrations are completed at the Department of Revenue within each state.

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Withum

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Last year is a closed book for most transactions that will be reported on your 2023 tax return. However, there are some things you could do now that would simplify your tax return for 2024 and later years and also reduce the fees you pay a professional preparer. Here are some actions to consider.

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Withum

APRIL 12, 2022

The tax due date for most individual tax returns this year is April 18. If you are unable to complete your return to file by April 18, you can file for an extension to submit your return by October 17. However, the extension does not cover the payment of the tax due. Let’s Chat.

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TaxConnex

MAY 30, 2023

You know all about reaching sales tax nexus: selling enough or having a physical presence in a tax jurisdiction sufficient to create a connection with that jurisdiction and create an obligation for you to collect and remit sales tax. But business and sales patterns change over time. Nexus shall exist.’

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TaxConnex

OCTOBER 6, 2022

It’s a common scenario: A company has decided to sell, then due diligence turns up a $2 million risk in past sales tax obligations and compliance. Do you have solid positions and reasons for your sales tax decisions? Can you defend your sale tax position to minimize the escrow’s impact? Estimating exposure.

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Sales Tax tax return audit 197

TaxConnex

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

A ccording to TaxConnex’s recent market survey of 100 top finance professionals, this could be the year to outsource sales tax. Three of these execs’ biggest in-house deficiencies to managing sales tax in 2022: bandwidth, internal knowledge and the right partner or solution. Seems like something needs to change.

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SkagitCountyTaxServices

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

We all know the power of the holiday season for boosting sales — revenue-increasing opportunities abound. Specifically, that means high-income earners, partnership income tax returns, large corporations, and promoters “aggressively peddling abusive schemes.”

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TaxConnex

OCTOBER 12, 2023

And one thing that can pound a stake through the heart of a promising M&A is unearthing past tax liability during due diligence. Enter past-due sales tax, a sometimes-overlooked and haunting liability that might not get the attention of, say, overdue income or property tax, until it’s too late.

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Sales Tax audit tax return 113

TaxConnex

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Sales tax, unlike other types of taxes, has many deadlines, not once or twice a year, but often every month and it doesn’t fall on the same day for every business, or state. Not to mention, the process of reporting sales tax and the amount of information required on each return varies with each state and local jurisdiction.

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TaxConnex

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Last week we talked about all of the different filing frequencies and deadlines you have to manage with your sales tax obligation. T rying to meet your sales tax obligations across many different states confronts you with a head-spinning assortment of deadlines and filing frequencies. If you missed that – check it out!

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TaxConnex

OCTOBER 4, 2022

So you’ve done the smart thing and determined that your company has sales tax obligations in various states. Now you must collect, file, and remit sales tax in multiple states. Only slightly more than a third (36%) are happy with how they manage sales tax. That’s a great first step.

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Sales Tax tax return Colorado 130

TaxConnex

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

But sometimes, the deal is held up for various reasons – including sales tax exposure within the company being acquired. But many business owners have been gut-punched during due diligence when an unanticipated sales and use tax?deficiency Determining sales tax risk. Not looking for the unexpected.

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TaxConnex

OCTOBER 19, 2021

You may think your business is in full compliance with your sales tax obligations nationwide – and you may well be – but America’s 10,000-plus sales tax jurisdictions love to send notices. Follow instructions or recommendations on the notice and make appropriate changes to your system to maintain sales tax compliance.

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Withum

MARCH 1, 2023

Most people that prepare their own returns need someone to review it for errors or omissions. Tax Comparison Schedule When your tax return is completed, you should review the tax comparison schedule your software provides for differences. Here is a step-by-step technique you could follow.

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