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Refunds and sales tax

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Where was the sale made (and did it incur sales tax based on destination or origin )? When was the return made? What was returned? What extra charges were involved in the return? Have you already filed your sales tax return based on the original amount of sales tax charged?

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Feds Cracking Down on Unlawful Tax Return Preparers

CPA Practice

The Justice Department is advising taxpayers to choose their return preparers wisely as the April 15 federal tax filing deadline approaches. Unscrupulous preparers who include errors or false information on a tax return could leave a taxpayer open to liability for unpaid taxes, penalties and interest.

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Beryl victims in Texas get tax relief

Accounting Today

3 to file various federal individual and business tax returns and make tax payments. Individuals and businesses in the affected counties now have until next Feb.

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What to know about responsible party laws

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That’s personally responsible, as many states’ sales tax registration forms ask for Social Security or driver’s license numbers (or both) of at least one corporate officer or executive. Owners’ individual tax returns have occasionally been compared to those of the company for evidence of “material involvement” in the business.

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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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Sales tax ‘responsible party’ laws still going strong

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Most states’ sales tax registration forms ask for Social Security or driver’s license numbers (or both) of at least one corporate officer or executive. And in a case similar to one that might have involved sales tax, the president of a corporation was properly held liable for the corporation’s unpaid Ohio personal withholding taxes.

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IRS to Try Out Its Free E-Filing Tax Return Program in 13 States Next Year

CPA Practice

According to the IRS, Arizona, California, Massachusetts, and New York have decided to work with the agency to integrate their state taxes into the Direct File pilot program for the 2024 filing season. In addition, the state of Washington agreed to join the integration effort for its application of the Working Families Tax Credit.