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How Your Business Can Prepare For and Respond to an IRS Audit

RogerRossmeisl

The IRS has been increasing its audit efforts, focusing on large businesses and high-income individuals. By 2026, it plans to nearly triple its audit rates for large corporations with assets exceeding $250 million. Under these plans, partnerships with assets over $10 million will also see audit rates increase tenfold by 2026.

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Why Am I Being Audited and How Does the IRS Conduct Them?

RogerRossmeisl

As appearing at the IRS web page entitled “IRS Audits” An IRS audit is a review/examination of an organization’s or individual’s books, accounts and financial records to ensure information reported on their tax return is reported correctly according to the tax laws and to verify the reported amount of tax is correct.

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How to Maintain Compliance Documentation for Sales Tax Audits | TaxConnex

TaxConnex

Maintaining compliance documentation is crucial for businesses to ensure smooth and successful audits. Unfortunately, many businesses find themselves unprepared when faced with an audit, lacking the necessary documentation. Sales Tax Accruals Ensure that sales tax is stated in your general ledger as a separate GL account number.

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4 things tax and audit professionals to know about agentic AI

ThomsonReuters

Blog home As artificial intelligence continues to rapidly evolve , a new concept is emerging that tax and accounting professionals need to be aware of: agentic AI. For tax and accounting firms, agentic AI has the potential to dramatically transform workflows, client services, and the nature of professional work itself. Jump to 1.

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Predicting What’s Next for Firms & Collaboration Tech

Read this whitepaper to understand the evolution of collaboration in audit and tax engagements, its impact on firms, and predict where technology will take collaboration next. What might be more surprising is the speed and scale at which that evolution has taken—and will continue to take—place. Download the whitepaper today!

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Preparing Your Client for a Tax Audit: Walking the Taxpayer Through IRS Audits 101

CTP

One of the many roles we play as tax planners is as the taxpayers audit support system. Just the word audit can cause the typical taxpayer to panic. We can help reduce taxpayer stress by orienting them to audit basics long before that notice comes in the mail. billion of potentially fraudulent ERC claims.

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Evolution of the Sales Tax Audit: Have Audits Changed with Economic Nexus?

TaxConnex

Sales tax has evolved a lot in recent years. So has the sales tax audit. Examiners can still show up and go over your books in person, and tax agencies will still send audit notices via snail mail. Many events can ignite a sales tax audit. And why not? What if you get flagged?

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The CPA Firm Growth Strategy: From Compliance to Consulting

Speaker: Rita Keller - President of Keller Advisors, LLC

You've worked diligently and have built a glowing reputation grounded in your excellent skills in tax, accounting, and auditing. You're known as the “go-to” person when a client is faced with tax and financial decisions. You have a very successful firm -- but that’s not enough.