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A Closer Look at What Controls Your Excel Add-in Provides and What it Doesn’t The day has finally come when tax technology professionals have great reasons to recommend the use of spreadsheets for tax processes.  The growing array of new Excel Add-in tools, responding to many of the historical risks related ...

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Its not often that a story about tax evasion ends up with an ending as happy as one in Indiana did recently (not to mention a chance to post a picture of my very own lucky dog Yogi). Earlier this month however Indiana's enforcement of its sales tax laws resulted in some very happy puppies and dogs who found ...

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Join Us: Delta Climbs Even Higher with Efficient and Accurate Transaction Tax Automation Transaction tax compliance is becoming an increasing burden on tax professionals. Learn how the world's largest airline, Delta, has reduced the burden and maximized transaction tax compliance through the automation of their sales and use tax processes with ...

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The $1.4 billion owed to California by merchants would be a good start to closing the $19 billion budget gap the state is facing. Consumer’s have been charged and paid these sales and use taxes for the most part, but the money has not been remitted to the state. This ...

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As they always say, acknowledging you have a problem is the first step to correcting it.  So, now that you have taken your first step, what do you do next?  It's usually at this point that I get to work with companies.  They know they need help with sales tax, ...

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Woodland, CA voters are all set to vote on Measure V, which would raise the sales tax by a quarter-cent.  An unidentified source has been busy recently, attacking the measure and its proponents. It all began two weeks ago when registered voters received calls from an automated voice calling herself ...

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For many tax departments managing exemption certificates consistently falls to the bottom of the priority list…until an audit exposes holes in the process.  Come join Sabrix tax consulting partner, DuCharme, McMillen & Associates, as they discuss their total solution for automating exemption certificate management during this one hour webinar.  See ...

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As I start this blog I feel compelled to say "I love my job!"  I get to work with so many different companies at different stages of development, that it is just fascinating.  I love speaking with everyone and learning their stories.  While so many of these companies are different, they are all talking to ...

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On Friday, Washington Department of Revenue posted Draft Rule 15503 - Taxation of Digital Products on its website in preparation for stakeholder meetings on July 14th and 15th.  The rule takes effect on July 26th, which doesn't leave much time for changes or clarifications prior to the rule taking effect.   Downloaded digital ...

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Washington, like many states these days, is looking for ways to increase tax revenues. To that end it has just enacted legislation that will become effective July 26, 2009 clarifying how digital products are to be taxed in that state. Electronic downloads of music, movies, and other standard information ...

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Continued from Part 1A Cash Flow Opportunity: Establishing an Integrated Tax Management PracticePay your sales and use tax or VAT late and you incur a penalty. Interpret one of the many new tax law changes incorrectly and you incur a penalty or risk an audit. The list can go on ...

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The Minnesota District Court doesn't think so.  Although this Summary Judgment order is from 1995, I believe it still has application today.  In the original controversy a hospital based in North Dakota was challenging the constitutionality of a gross receipts tax imposed on non-resident hospitals (themselves).  The court ordered that ". ...

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With the upcoming changes in the place of supply rules for VAT tax in Europe, the EC Sales List (ESL) requirements are also changing.Today, the ESL is only used to report goods transactions shipped from one European Union Member State to another (so called dispatch) or received (so called acquisition).In ...

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