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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. They can provide guidance and ensure that your records meet all legal requirements.

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How not to tank your sales tax audit (part 2)

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Always treat the auditor with respect and dignity. It’s also a good idea to assign one person from your company to manage the relationship with the auditor. Be careful about leaving the auditor alone in an environment where they have access to records or other employees. Not thinking you can work with an auditor.

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Friday Footnotes: Big 4 Nixes Legal Practices; EY Looks the Other Way; Auditors Get Lectured Again | 10.14.22

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Big Four Audit Giants Shut Down Legal Operations in China Following ‘Regulatory Raids’ [ Law.com ]. The Big Four auditing giants have quietly shut down their legal affiliations in China following intense regulatory scrutiny, according to an investigation by Law.com International, in a major development for Asia’s legal industry.

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In ongoing accounting crunch, where to go for sales tax help?

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million accountants and auditors in the U.S. There’s another consideration for going in-house: The legal liability is all yours if you miss a compliance matter. Are they experienced with auditors? The accounting education pipeline is drier than ever even as accounting degrees require many additional course hours. in 2022, up 1.3%

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How Auditors Are Currently Using Generative AI

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audit regulator recently spoke to auditors who work at the U.S. the Big Four, RSM US, BDO USA, Grant Thornton), as well as several auditors from non-affiliated firms in the U.S. In their view, human involvement remains essential for auditors and preparers and is needed to review the output from GenAI. Scoping the audit.

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PCAOB Looks to Amend Rule on Auditors’ Liability for Audit Firm Violations

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A proposal issued by the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB) on Tuesday would hold auditors and others more accountable when they negligently, directly, and substantially cause their firm to violate auditing standards.

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Half a dozen ways to mismanage sales tax | TaxConnex

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Sales tax compliance has many moving parts, not just in the filing but in everything that goes into making sure you stay on the legal side of the jurisdictions where you have sales tax nexus. Auditors will ask for data and any replated invoices. Just remember, a lot can go wrong along the way.

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