Sales Tax

While there are clear benefits, cloud-enabled accounting solutions have greatly reduced or eliminated the need to interact directly with clients. Gone are the days of visiting client sites to help them process paper checks, or receive their paper records.

Each state, and sometimes each jurisdiction within a state, has different standards for when a company is required to collect and remit sales tax. The legal term for this requirement is called nexus. Learn the basic concepts behind nexus and your company’s relationship with taxing jurisdictions.

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With over 10,000 taxing jurisdictions in this country alone, each with constantly changing laws, and the taxing jurisdictions of over 100 countries worldwide, it’s difficult to imagine one person or even one firm trying to keep abreast of all that ...

The topic of costs is pretty simple — it’s easy to manually add up all the “known” costs associated with a product or service, and determine a price based on that number. What leads to complications are the “unknown” costs that don’t get accounted for.

The start of a new year is the perfect time to touch base with your clients or reach out to new ones. Don’t limit your discussion to traditional tax issues. Take the time to ask existing and prospective clients about their business plans overall.

Recently, tax authorities have begun a wholesale shift in indirect tax compliance to enhance their collections and audit processes.

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