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How to Maintain Compliance Documentation for Sales Tax Audits | TaxConnex

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Proper documentation allows auditors to interpret and verify your financial transactions accurately. This can lead to auditors assuming transactions are taxable, or making historical projections or arbitrary assessments of taxable sales. This separation helps in clearly identifying and tracking sales tax amounts.

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

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Our clients should know the reasons they might be selected for an audit, how they will find out they are being audited, and what an IRS auditor might ask for. We will especially want to have this conversation if our clients tax return features one of the IRS red flags of the season. Auditors will often request books and records.

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New year tax resolution – resolve your tax problem today

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Some common tax problems include: Failing to file a tax return: If you fail to file a tax return (1040, 1120, 1065, 941, etc.), you may be subject to penalties and interest on failure to file and on any unpaid taxes. Amending your tax returns could correct these errors.

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IRS Announces Crucial Updates on the ERC

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Among other things, the OPR memo reminds tax professionals (TPs) that they must be diligent as to the accuracy of ERC claims and that they should not prepare an original or amended income tax return that claims or perpetuates an improper ERC claim.

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Sales tax and nonprofits

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Definitions For Federal income tax purposes, according to the IRS , tax-exempt organizations include: Charitable: Organized and operated exclusively for religious, charitable, scientific, testing for public safety, literary, educational or other specified purposes. How important are these certificates?

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New ERC Withdrawal Option

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If a taxpayer has not received a refund and its claim is under IRS audit, then the taxpayer should prepare the withdrawal request as described above, but instead of faxing or mailing it to the IRS, it should be sent to the IRS auditor handling the audit. Below is a sample of how the request for withdrawal should be prepared.

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ERC Moratorium – What Does That Mean?

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The IRS was already on heightened alert for improper ERC claims, and IRS auditors are already working these cases on expedited timelines. Recall that the ERC is taxable by way of expense disallowance – taxpayers are required to amend their 2020 and 2021 federal income tax returns to reduce the expenses that gave rise to their ERC claims.