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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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Half a dozen ways to mismanage sales tax | TaxConnex

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Yet often we see differences between a client’s billing system and their tax reporting. You could be billing taxes within your billing system and yet haven’t filed a single sales tax return and haven’t tracked the tax data to be aware of a future filing obligation. Tax types and nexus pose other wrinkles.

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How IRS Auditors Learn About Your Business Industry

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They generally do research about specific industries and issues on tax returns by using IRS Audit Techniques Guides (ATGs). In other words, your business can use the same guides to gain insight into what the IRS is looking for in terms of compliance with tax laws and regulations.

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Tips to Ensure You Don't Mishandle a Sales Tax Audit

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Good news and press for your business could also put you on the radar for auditors. Many companies’ documentation is poorly organized and hard for an auditor to interpret. Documentation typically required by an auditor can include invoices, exemption certificates , summary reports, tax returns, and more.

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Top Tips to Prepare for an eCommerce Audit

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Almost half (48.5%) of respondents expect sales tax audits to become more frequent in 2022-23, and nearly one in five (18.5%) cited an audit as one of their chief worries for this year. Physical nexus – triggered by such factors as workers or stored inventory – has long been a way for companies to create sales tax nexus. First moves.

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Best Practices for Managing a Sales Tax Audit

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One of your customers undergoing their own audit might produce one of your invoices, resulting in the auditor possibly contacting you for an exemption certificate or other documents. Auditors know that competitors tend to have similar business models and that some industries are more susceptible than others to tax deficiencies.

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