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How to Maintain Compliance Documentation for Sales Tax Audits | TaxConnex

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This can lead to auditors assuming transactions are taxable, or making historical projections or arbitrary assessments of taxable sales. Sales Tax Accruals Ensure that sales tax is stated in your general ledger as a separate GL account number. Invoices Keep both sales and purchase invoices well-organized.

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3 Components of Sales Tax to Not Forget

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You might think that collecting the tax and filing a tax form is all you need to be sales tax compliant. Ideally, all your sales tax calculations are managed in one system to produce a single report each month with details of all your sales and use tax liabilities. Once a sales tax return is prepared, it must get filed and paid.

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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. Billing systems You charge the customers sales tax for online purchases, they pay and you remit the money to the tax jurisdictions.

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5 Crucial Pieces of Your Sales Tax Compliance Filing Process

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Once you’ve determined your requirement to collect and remit sales tax, you’ve set-up a process to charge sales tax, and you have registered with each required state, you need to consider how you will manage the return filing process. Contact us to learn more about how we can take sales tax completely off your plate.

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5 Steps to a Complete Sales Tax Filing Process

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Sales tax is more complicated than ever, especially in a post-Wayfair world. And what’s worse is that everyone who says they’re simplifying sales tax is still leaving the hardest parts – and the liability – up to you. Don’t let sales tax compliance overwhelm you.

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Alleviate Stress on Your Staff in 2021

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If you handle sales tax compliance in house, you’ve got your employees handling an unbelievably complex business function – and with 65% of businesses planning to grow across state lines* in the coming year, it may be more than they can manage. You need to check with states where you expect your sales will be greatest.

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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. Top 10 Tips for Managing Sales Tax Audits. Fear and loathing. market survey ,?more

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