Here’s a glimpse of what you’ll learn:
Criteria for Choosing a Sales Tax Returns Provider
Provider Capabilities and Limitations
Client-Provider Communication and Support
Notice Management and Tax Remittance Verification
Criteria for Choosing a Sales Tax Returns Provider
Provider Capabilities and Limitations
Client-Provider Communication and Support
Notice Management and Tax Remittance Verification
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.
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.
The Importance of Documentation in Audits
Exemption Certificate Management
Impact of Workforce Changes on Documentation Access
Burden of Proof and Taxability
We explain where to start with your sales tax strategy for 2024.
How do registrations and deregistrations come into play?
Taxability and exemption updates.
We dive into filing frequencies and changes.
We explain why tax collected and not remitted is the cardinal sin of sales tax.
Do people really go to jail for collecting tax and not remitting it?
How do knowledge and intent come into play?
How do people find themselves in this kind of situation and what are the remedies?
What is CereTax and what solutions does it offer?
Why was CereTax created?
Why is CereTax a great primary and add-on solution?
Who founded CereTax and why?
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
Current PA Extension
Why is PA extending this program?
How can you have nexus if you are under the state’s 100k threshold?
Does this program apply to international sellers?
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
What is nexus?
Is nexus the same for sales and income tax?
Does physical presence nexus even matter anymore?
Physical presence nexus-creating activities
State-specific nexus-creating activities
Why do we have these issues now
Why FBA sellers are low-hanging fruit for auditors
Foreign sellers having an income tax responsibility
Pennsylvania compliance program update
Materiality
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
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?
Why are Amazon sellers receiving this letter from Pennsylvania?
Is income tax a new issue?
Does this letter only apply to Amazon sellers?
Do we recommend that sellers take advantage of this program?
Why sellers should focus on economic nexus as the year comes to an end
Should sellers only be concerned with economic nexus?
Why physical presence nexus is important and how it can be created for a company
Michael J. Fleming explains why income tax will be the next big battle for eCommerce sellers: Public Law 86-272
Are FBA and eCommerce sellers protected by Public Law 86-272?
How Public Law 86-272 is under threat
What businesses need to know about income tax compliance
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?
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