Relieving Sales and Use Tax Determination Headaches

Manage your multistate tax environment to reduce your exposure to audit in a global economy.

Post-Wayfair, physical presence is no longer the only element subjecting businesses to state tax collection and reporting responsibilities. Sales and use tax professionals are faced with the legal and practical challenges of learning as many as 50 different state sales and use tax laws and regulations as well as a myriad of local taxing jurisdictions. No one could possibly learn all of the different state requirements and yet our jobs demand being familiar with how to research the issues. Remote workers working across state lines create additional issues. This topic reveals some of the secrets to working in a multistate environment and triaging issues in a systematic way. Learn the different types of taxing states which greatly reduces the complexity of a 50-state environment. Five states don't even impose sales and use taxes, but that doesn't mean businesses operating out of those states can just ignore sales and use tax imposed by other jurisdictions. Learn the recent developments affecting nexus and reduce audit exposure from multistate audits. Sales and use tax audits are inevitable; learn techniques for navigating the hazards and communicating with auditors to reduce the proposed audit adjustments.