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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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In years past, auditors could show up at your door asking to look at your records. Many audits are conducted remotely, and an auditor never visits your office. Auditors can tap different data sources to select audits more accurately based on the level of risk, and to use new tools to automate the repetitive tasks of an audit.

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Top Tips to Prepare for an eCommerce Audit

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Unfortunately, there’s no playbook for determining the company profile that will attract a state’s auditors, but there are measures you can take to assess your exposure: Understand physical and economic nexus. ?Physical Also be careful who the auditor has access to and what areas of your business they have access to. First moves.

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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. Auditors will ask for data and any replated invoices. Double-check the presentation of your invoices.

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Six tips to respond to a sales tax audit

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One of your customers undergoing their own sales tax audit might unearth one of your invoices, resulting in the auditor possibly contacting you for a certificate of exemption or other documents. 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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How Auditors Are Seizing the Day with Artificial Intelligence

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Auditors, like so many others today, are seizing the opportunity to transform how they work by adopting artificial intelligence. These findings make it critical for those of us in the audit profession to help the next generation understand the vision and opportunities that await those who choose this career path as auditors embrace AI.

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Thomson Reuters Unveils Suite of AI-Powered Solutions For Auditors

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Thomson Reuters recently launched Thomson Reuters Audit Intelligence, a suite of artificial intelligence-powered, data-driven audit solutions designed to transform audit practices by reducing errors and enhancing confidence while enabling auditors to realize efficiency gains. this fall, followed by the United Kingdom in 2025.

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