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How to Maintain Compliance Documentation for Sales Tax Audits | TaxConnex

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Maintaining compliance documentation is crucial for businesses to ensure smooth and successful audits. Proper documentation allows auditors to interpret and verify your financial transactions accurately. Unfortunately, many businesses find themselves unprepared when faced with an audit, lacking the necessary documentation.

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The new breed of audit

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Usually, you learn about an audit through a notice or letter from the state or jurisdiction in question with instructions on how the audit will proceed. Many audits are conducted remotely, and an auditor never visits your office. Fear and perception of audits are as tangible as the real examinations. Fear and loathing.

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Top Tips to Prepare for an eCommerce Audit

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that the likelihood of your business being audited is low, but that likelihood has been increasing in recent years. more than one in four (26.7%) top finance professionals reported seeing an increase in state sales tax audits in the past two years. You received a sales tax audit notice from a jurisdiction. Data shows?that

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3 Components of Sales Tax to Not Forget

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Be sure you have a process to gather the applicable data each month and reconcile all new data to your general ledger before you start the filing process. Audit work papers. Once a return is filed, some form of documentation must support the reported tax liabilities in case the return is audited.

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How to Be Prepared for an ERC Audit

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It is stepping up efforts to audit employers as aggressive promoters continue to make a pitch for fraudulent refunds (IR-203-40, 3/7/23). The IRS is actively auditing and conducting criminal investigations related to these false claims. Practical advice: If you’re tapped for an audit, don’t panic. How does the ERC work?

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Half a dozen ways to mismanage sales tax | TaxConnex

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General ledger management Your GL is a key reconciliation point to make sure you’re capturing all sales tax that you’re remitting and that you get the credits and adjustments you have coming, such as vendors’ discounts. Audits Thankfully, you may never go through a sales tax audit.

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Six tips to respond to a sales tax audit

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You just got notice of a sales tax audit. Wherever you are in your sales tax compliance, these steps will help your audit process run smoother. Many happenings can ignite an audit. An audit of one of your suppliers could turn up one of your exemption certificates for something the auditor may think is taxable.

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