Sales & Use Tax
We empower clients with multistate operations to unlock the full potential of their business with customized solutions to mitigate risk, recover overpayments and minimize exposure.
Sales & Use Tax
Amidst increasing complexity in an ever-evolving tax landscape, complying with intricate sales and use tax laws can be difficult for businesses operating in a multistate environment. Baker Tilly provides clients with well-designed options and customized solutions to manage their sales and use tax costs, simplify complexities and minimize exposure.
Our dedicated sales and use tax specialists have the experience, resources and relationships with taxing authorities to minimize your exposure, avoid or recover overpayments and control compliance costs. As your trusted tax advisor, we review your unique situation and apply our collective knowledge of tax authority and planning techniques to address all your sales and use tax needs. Our team leverages technology and forward-thinking collaboration to conduct thorough, line-by-line reviews to ensure you remain compliant, maximizing potential and mitigating risk.
Our range of services includes:
- Nexus reviews and analysis
- Historical exposure remediation and penalty abatement through voluntary disclosure or amnesty programs
- Developing sales and purchases taxability matrices for various industries
- Policy and procedure reviews, including developing and implementing, consulting on automated compliance solutions and exemption certificate management
- Identifying and maximizing application of various exemptions
- Dispute resolution, such as audit defense, appeals and private letter rulings
- Reverse audits to obtain refunds of overpayments of sales tax to vendors or over-accrual of use tax on purchases
- Managed audit services to effectively navigate state audit guidelines
- Utility studies
- Negotiating percentage use tax reporting agreements
