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Blog: The 'XYZ Letter' and your sales tax compliance

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Complying with your sales tax obligations involves a lot of variables – your nexus, taxability of your products, type of customer you are selling to, etc. Another key factor that effects your sales tax obligations is related to exempt transactions and exemption certificates. This is where the XYZ letter comes into play.

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Here’s Why Maryland Paid the IRS $5.4 Million in Taxes

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million to the Internal Revenue Service after a rare IRS audit of the state found it owed millions of dollars in taxes in 2020. Smith School of Business, told The Baltimore Sun he wasn’t surprised to see the IRS conduct a payroll audit, even if he wasn’t sure how often the agency examines state governments. It’s annoying.

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

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Managing a sales and use tax audit can be challenging. First, you should always anticipate an audit – even if you’ve never been audited before. While they are definitely becoming more frequent as states try to crack down on economic nexus laws, rarely are you given advanced notice as to when an audit will occur.

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7 Ways a Business is Selected for Audit

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sales tax audits ?were sales tax audits to become more common over the next two years. of respondents said they believe audit levels?will already seen an increase in the number of audits in the past two years. evidence of tax jurisdictions’?ramping ramping up audits remains?anecdotal,?but

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The new breed of audit

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Audits remain an important tool for tax jurisdictions to evaluate the level, or lack thereof, of sales tax compliance within a business. Even though many audits have shifted to remote audit, the fundamentals of the sales tax audit haven’t changed. Virtual audits?can offers audit defense and?support

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Why Microsoft’s $29 Billion Tax Bill Could Be the Big Knockout Punch in Fight with the IRS

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By Clint Rainey, Fast Company (TNS) Way back in 2012, the IRS launched the largest-ever audit in history, accusing Microsoft of stashing billions in offshore tax havens to dodge U.S. It possessed documents where giddy executives had reveled in their “pure tax play.” billion in back taxes plus penalties and interest.

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Opinion: The IRS Shows What Government Efficiency Really Looks Like

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The study is an accounting of the cost of in-person audits carried out by the Internal Revenue Service relative to the taxes paid as the result of the audits. These in-person audits, in contrast to “correspondence audits” in which the IRS asks for information via letter, can be labor-intensive and expensive to administer.