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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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3 Components of Sales Tax to Not Forget

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Be sure you have a process to gather the applicable data each month and reconcile all new data to your general ledger before you start the filing process. Once a return is filed, some form of documentation must support the reported tax liabilities in case the return is audited. Filing can include mailing or electronic filing.

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The new breed of audit

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“Rather than meeting in person with an audit committee, for example, an external auditor might use Zoom … Other audit processes, like reviewing financial reports, might require sharing documents more online rather than looking at physical printouts.”. Documentation should be well-organized and easy to interpret by an auditor.?Missing

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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. States frequently introduce new sales tax returns, such as Colorado and Minnesota for their new retail delivery fees.

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5 Crucial Pieces of Your Sales Tax Compliance Filing Process

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Be sure you have a process to gather the applicable data each month and reconcile this data to your general ledger before you start the filing process. These controls will also have to be reviewed periodically and tested to ensure proper operation.

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Top Tips to Prepare for an eCommerce Audit

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You can expect to provide copies of your filed returns and supporting data (including sales journals, exemption certificates and general ledger data supporting the returns).?There’s Knowing which documentation to provide and when to provide it is important.?. Be professional. Not Going Away.

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5 Steps to a Complete Sales Tax Filing Process

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Be sure you have a process to gather the applicable data each month and reconcile this data to your general ledger before you start the filing process. These deficiency notices generally have very tight time frames by which you must respond – 5 days, 10 days, etc.

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