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How to Maintain Compliance Documentation for Sales Tax Audits | TaxConnex

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Bad Debt Most states allow a deduction for bad debts written off for Federal income tax purposes. Miscellaneous Adjustments Any adjustments taken on your tax return should have supporting documentation. Most companies keep this documentation along with a copy of the filed return.

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How To Download Your IRS Account Transcript to Look Up Your Estimated Tax Payments (Updated Jan 2025)

Nancy McClelland, LLC

For example, if you’re trying to prepare a tax return for a prior-year and need a list of all the informational documents filed with the IRS that are associated with your SSN, you’d want a Wage & Income Transcript. The best news where downloading any transcript is concerned?

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Streamline tax time: Xero now supports partnership tax in the UK

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Simple and efficient: Xero streamlines partnership tax management by bringing everything into one platform, making it easy for the whole team to use and collaborate on tax returns together. Use Xero Tax for more of your clients: Xero Tax is designed to make it easy to prepare accounts and tax where your clients are using Xero.

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Recent Cases Show You Shouldn't Mess with Sales Tax Obligations

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The company has paid nearly $69,000 in restitution for sales tax it collected and failed to pay to state coffers between June 2011 and December 2015. The case was referred to investigators after an auditor found that the business hadn’t filed quarterly sales tax returns or remitted sales tax collected for that period.

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Sales tax and M&A: Don't wait until it's too late

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But many business owners have been gut-punched during due diligence when an unanticipated sales and use tax?deficiency Once a business has determined a requirement to collect and remit sales tax, they must establish a way to charge sales tax, register with each required state and set up a process for filing the sales tax returns.?This

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Getting Sales Tax Registrations Right

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In most states, the distinction is moot; however, some states apply different rates to these various tax types so it’s important to get this right. Similarly, some states will have different tax returns that you must file for these different tax types. Looking to understand more aspects of sales tax? Get in touch?

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7 Steps to Make an Easy Transition to a New Sales Tax Outsourcing Provider

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Secure copies of return images and reports – Most sales tax outsourcing providers will host images of your tax returns and various reports on a secure website.? Download our eBook - [link]. Have a plan in place to get copies of this documentation. Looking for more information?