Exemption Certificate Management Documentation

Here’s a glimpse of what you’ll learn:

  • Understand how the Great Recession changed state tax enforcement

  • Learn how missing certificates can lead to hefty financial penalties during audits.

  • Essential steps for validating exemption certificates and ensuring compliance with regulations.

  • Learn how proper certificate management can minimize audit risks and ensure tax compliance.

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Michael Fleming
Sales Tax Broken Hearts

Here’s a glimpse of what you’ll learn:

  • The emotional and financial toll of sales tax issues.

  • Flaws in tax software services.

  • Automation pitfalls and tax errors.

  • Sales Tax More's mitigation advice.

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Michael Fleming
Halloween Horror Stories

Here’s a glimpse of what you’ll learn:

  • Why it seems like these discretionary tales are more and more commonplace

  • Why salespeople and the streamlined sales tax program may be common factors

  • A company with 850,000 in tax collected and not remitted spanning a 4 year period - what happened and why

  • A destination-based sourcing horror story

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Michael Fleming
Economic Nexus for Sales Tax

Here’s a glimpse of what you’ll learn:

  • What is nexus?

  • Wayfair

  • The cause of 1 out of 2 companies being compliant when it comes to economic nexus

  • Economic nexus obligations

  • Specifics of economic nexus

  • Past exposure

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Michael Fleming
Remote Seller Sales Tax Update

Here’s a glimpse of what you’ll learn:

  • Floridas’s economic thresholds

  • Local taxation

  • Kansas’s economic thresholds

  • Missouri’s expected economic thresholds

  • Prospective registrations

  • Tough states when it comes to audits

  • Pennsylvania’s special voluntary compliance program

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Michael Fleming
Exemption Certificate Management

Here’s a glimpse of what you’ll learn:

  • Missing, incomplete, or otherwise invalid exemption certificates are generally the leading cause for large audit assessments in companies that are required to collect certificates. Has it always been this way?

  • When we start talking about recessions and the states needing to refill their coffers it sounds a lot like today. Do we see any parallels?

  • We know that certificates will be an issue for many companies, but why are certificates such a big issue in an audit?

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Michael Fleming
Part 3: Most Helpful FAQ at Sales Tax and More

Here’s a glimpse of what you’ll learn:

  • Do exemption certificates expire?

  • Can I write into my agreements or invoices that the customer is responsible for paying sales use tax?

  • If the vendor does not charge sales tax, does the purchaser need to pay use tax?

  • If the purchaser is required to pay use tax, can I tell my customers to pay the use tax?

  • Do I need to register when I am over one transaction threshold but not the other?

  • What should I do if my customer keeps short paying the tax on the invoice?

  • I have heard that sales to a business are not taxable. Is this true?

  • Do I have to accept a certificate, whether it be a resale or exempt entity certificate?

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What is a Marketplace?

Here’s a glimpse of what you’ll learn:

  • What exactly is a marketplace?

  • Michael J. Fleming shares examples of marketplaces and non-marketplaces

  • The importance of knowing what a marketplace is and whether or not you are selling on one

  • The connection between marketplaces and economic nexus

  • Michael discusses the various caveats to selling on marketplaces and deregistering for sales tax

  • Michael's advice to businesses selling on their own websites

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