State Sales, Use, Excise, & Transaction Taxes
Will Yancey, PhD, CPA
Email: will@willyancey.com
Office phone 972.387.8558
Dr. Yancey consults on audit sampling and litigation support.
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Dr. Yancey is the author of Statistical Sampling in Sales and Use
Tax Audits, (CCH, 2002), http://onlinestore.cch.com/default.asp?ProductID=1898
Associations, Conferences, and Research Institutes
See http://willyancey.com/tax-local-sales.html#Associations page.
Court Decisions and Federal Statutes on State Sales and Use Taxes
For court opinions link to Court Locators page.
For court opinions dealing with state and local tax see http://www.iga.ucdavis.edu/cases.html
For court opinions dealing with local transaction taxes see http://willyancey.com/tax-local-sales.html#court
- Atchinson, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway et al v. Arizona et al, 96 C.D.O.S. 1408 (9th Circuit, 1996)
- Complete Auto Transit, Inc. v. Brady, Chairman, Mississippi Tax Commission, 430 U.S. 274 (1977)
- General Motors Corporation v. Tracy, Tax Commissioner of Ohio, No. 95-1232 (Sup Ct., 1997)
- Goldberg et al v. Sweet, Director of Illinois Department of Revenue, 488 U.S. 252 (1989)
- Itel Containers Int'l v. Huddleston, Commissioner of Revenue of Tennessee, 507 U.S. 60 (1993)
- Jefferson County v. Acker, No. 94-6400 (11th Circuit, 1995)
- Leathers, Commisioner of Revenues of Arkansas v. Medlock, et al., 499 U.S. 439 (1991)
- Oklahoma Tax Comm'n v. Chickasaw Nation, 515 U.S. 450 (1995)
- Oklahoma Tax Comm'n v. Jefferson Lines, 514 U.S. 175 (1995)
- Quill Corp. v. North Dakota, 112 S. Ct. 1904, 504 U.S. 298 (1992) (Taxpayer must have some physical presence in a state to be subject to collection responsibility for the state's use tax, unless changed by Congressional action.)
Fuel Excise Taxes
Alcoholic Beverages
Cigarettes and Other Tobacco Products (OTP)
Tires
Value Added Taxes (VAT)
Vendors of Services
These sites may include some free information about tax compliance, audits, automation, and outsourcing
for sales and use tax. Most of these vendors provide services on other types of taxes and business incentives in addition to sales and use tax.
Consultants
Link here to Forensic Consultants in Accounting and Economics
Link here to Payables consultants
Link here to Public Accounting Firms directories
Link here to Local Tax Audit Contractors
Link here to State and Local Tax including links to associations and government agencies.
- Advantax Management Corporation
- Advocate Aircraft Taxation Consulting
- Advanced Recovery Services, Inc.
- Alvarez & Marsal LLC (A&M)
- Arkansas Sales and Use Taxes ...B. J. Pritchett
- Arthur Consulting Group, Inc.
- Associated Sales Tax Consultants, Inc.
- Atlantax Systems, Inc.
- Avoid Sales Tax
- Baker, Shore & Associates Ltd.
- Barnwell & Co.
- BDO Seidman
- Beach, Fleischman & Co., PC
- Behel & Associates
- Benchmark Tax Consultants
- Blue Slate Solutions
- Brown and Associates ...Susan Nelson-Brown
- Browning & Associates ...Steve Browning
- Cliff Benderoff & Associates ...Canada
- Burr Wolff
- Business Strategy, Inc.
- Cantrell Collman & Co.
- Caplinger Tax
- Capital Project Review Services, Inc.
- CFG Associates, Inc.
- Chartwell Advisory Group, Ltd.
- CIC Enterprises - STEPS Group ...acquired by First Advantage Corporation
- CITTA, Inc.
- Clifton Gunderson LLP
- Clipper Tax Consulting
- Colonial Tax Compliance Company ...renamed Salis, Inc.
- Compton & Associates, LLP
- Comtax
- Connolly Consulting Associates, Inc.
- Consortium Three
- Corporate Tax Consultants
- Corporate Tax Management, Inc.
- Cost Cutting Analysts, Inc.
- Cost Segregation Company, LLC
- Crownover Consulting, LLC
- CTS & Associates ...Canada
- Dan Martinez & Associates, LP
- Davis & Davis Professional Services Firm LLC
- Davis Solutions, Inc. (D.S.I.)
- Definitive Solutions, Inc.
- Deloitte & Touche
- Didier Consultants, Inc.
- Dixon Odom PLLC
- J Donohoe & Associates LLC
- Downey, Smith & Fier
- Drew, Stafford & Chavez
- Dryden Advisory Group, LLC
- DuCharme, McMillen & Associates, Inc.
- Duff & Phelps, LLC
- Earl R.Thomas and Associates
- Easley, McCaleb & Associates, Inc.
- EMS Tax Services, Inc. ...affiliated with Easley, McCaleb & Associates
- Ernst & Young
- E-Tax Advantage LLC
- Ellis: George H. Ellis
- First Advantage Tax Consulting Services
- Fontaine & Kelley, LLP
- Gagnon Group
- Glick & Glick, LLC
- Global Tax Management, Inc.
- GMS Energy Services, LP
- Goodman & Company LLP
- Grant McCarthy Gagnon, LLC (GMG)
- Grant Thornton
- HMT Sales Tax Consultants Inc. ...Canada
- Hofmann & Company, PC
- Howard Schultz & Associates ...merged with Profit Recovery Group
- Infinitus Consulting ...Canada
- IntegriTax
- International Sales Tax Refund Corp.
- International Tax Associates, LLC (ITA)
- JC Sales & Excise Tax Advisors ...Julian Chavez
- JD Michael, LLC
- Jefferson Wells International ...(formerly AuditForce), now a unit of Manpower, Inc.
- JohnBernard, LLC ...acquired by Ryan & Company
- Kasner & Associates, LLC
- Kaufman, Rossin & Co.
- KPMG
- Kuhler & Associates, Inc.
- Labhart Miles Consulting Group, Inc.
- Lee, Sperling, Hisamune Accountancy Corporation
- Madison Cooke, Inc.
- Midland Auditors
- Mintax International Group
- MySalesTax.com
- National Tax Refund Service ...Canada
- National Tax Service
- Net Profit
- NJ Sales Tax Consultants, LLC ...Victor Treglia
- Olivier & Associates ...David Olivier
- Overpaid Payables Recovery, Inc. (OPR)
- Pearl Recovery
- Pegasus Financial Consultants, LLC
- Peisner Johnson & Company, LLP
- Pepe State Tax Consulting, PLLC
- Pritchett Sales and Use Tax Consulting
- PricewaterhouseCoopers
- Professional Tax Contracting Services
- Reinsel & Company
- Robert Brakel & Associates Ltd. ...acquired by Ryan & Company
- Robert Half Management Resources
- Rosegayle Corporation
- RSM McGladrey, Inc.
- Ryan & Company
- Sales & Use Tax Consulting
- Sales Tax Advisors, Inc.
- Sales Tax Advisors of Georgia, P.C. ...Ned Lenhart
- Sales Tax Consultants of Texas, Inc.
- SalesTaxCPA
- Sales Tax Group
- Sales Tax Institute
- Sales Tax Professionals
- Sales Tax Reduction Specialists
- Sales Tax Resource Group
- Sales Tax Solutions Group Inc.
- Sales Tax Specialists Inc. ...formerly known as Premier Sales & Use Tax Consulting
- Salis, Inc. ...formerly Colonial Tax Compliance Company
- SALT Consultants, Inc.
- Saltech Solutions
- SALTT, LLC
- Joseph C. Sansone Company
- SC & H Group ...formerly Stout, Causey & Horning, P.A.
- Sheth Associates
- Simon & Company, Inc.
- Skoda, Minotti & Co.
- SMART Business Advisory and Consulting, LLC
- SoftDevices ...International SoftDevices Corporation
- Spectrum Tax Consultants ...Canada
- William Squibb & Associates ...Canada
- STAT! Consulting, LLC ...Josie Ann Henneke
- State Tax Advisors ...Riley Epps
- StateTaxCredits.com
- State Tax Group, LLC
- State Tax Refund Service
- StateTaxWeb
- State Tax Partners
- Stites Tax Consulting
- TALX
- TaxAutomation
- Taxcient ...formerly vAudit Group
- Taxconnect, LLC
- Tax Management Services, Inc. ...Canada
- Tax Partners, LLC ...acquired by Thomson
- Tax Prism
- Tax Refund Consultants, Inc.
- Tax Technologies, Inc.
- Tax Technology Services, LLC
- TaxTrust Group, LLC
- Technology Solutions Company
- Tennessee Tax Consultants...Roger Alley and Doyle Byrd
- TexasAudit
- Texas Sales Tax Solutions
- The Accounting Department, Inc.
- The Alonso Group, Inc.
- The Gelber Organization
- The Sales Tax Clearinghouse
- The SALT Group
- The Tower Group, Inc.
- Thompson Dunavant PLC
- The Tower Group, Inc.
- Thompson Tax & Associates, Inc.
- Transaction Tax Resources
- Trigonium
- Tronconi Segarra & Associates LLP
- UHY Advisors
- vAudit Group, Inc. ...renamed Taxcient
- Vertex Consulting ...Vertex, Inc.
- Washington State Tax Services LLC
- Wilmoth & Associates, PA
- Woods & Associates, LLC
- Yetter Consulting Services
Law firms with a state and local tax practice
Link here for other law firm directories.
- Alston & Bird LLP
- Baker & Hostetler LLP
- Carlton Fields
- Clark, Thomas & Winters, PC
- Cooper White & Cooper LLP
- Dechert
- Duane Morris LLP
- Hodgson Russ LLP
- Holland & Knight LLP
- Horwood Marcus & Berk Chartered
- Jones, Day, Reavis & Pogue
- Keefer, Wood, Allen & Rahal
- Lange, Simpson, Robinson & Somerville LLP
- Maddin Hauser
- Madsen, Goldman & Holcomb LLP
- Martens - James F. Martens & Associates
- Maupin, Taylor & Ellis, PA
- McDermott, Will & Emery
- McNees, Wallace & Nurick
- Mondrik & Associates
- Morgan Lewis
- Morrison & Foerster LLP
- Nielsen, Merksamer, Parrinello, Mueller & Naylor, LLP
- Oreck, Crighton, Adams & Chase LLC
- Pillsbury Winthrop
- Quarles & Brady LLP
- SALTNET network ...consortium formed in 1997
- Scott, Douglass & McConnico LLP
- Silverstein & Pomerantz LLP
- Stahl & Bernal LLP
- Steptoe & Johnson LLP
- Sutherland, Asbill & Brennan LLP
- Tanner & Guin LLC
- Tucci and Tannenbaum
- Vorys, Sater, Seymour and Pease LLP
Exemption certificate management systems
May include document management, exemption compliance research, or some combination.
Software for sales and use tax audits
These applications are used by some sales and use tax audit professionals.
These applications are also used for other types of audits and data analysis.
This list does not include proprietary applications customized for particular states or taxpayers.
Inclusion on this list does not imply any warranty that the software is best for this purpose.
Additonal software applications are linked from the data mining and statistics web pages.
Publishers of print and software products for sales and use tax professionals
Article citations on sampling, exemption certficates, and audit methods
are at www.willyancey.com/sampling-sut-review.html
- AccountantsWorld
- AdValorem, Inc.
- AlaTax ...compliance for Alabama cities and counties
- AlternaDev
- American Bar Association - Section of Taxation
- Arizona Tax ...Michael G. Galloway, Esq.
- Aspen Publishers ...merged into CCH
- Avalara
- ATX Forms ...unit of UCG
- BillSoft, Inc. - EZTax and EZGeo
- BNA Software
- BNA Tax Management
- Burr Wolff
- CCH Tax & Accounting ...a Wolters Kluwer company
- CFS Tax Software
- Click2file
- Coding Standards for payables ...Will Yancey's links
- Colonial Tax Compliance Company ...renamed Salis, Inc.
- Corporate Tax Publishers, Inc. (CTPI)
- CorpTax ...spun off from Deloitte & Touche Tax Technologies
- CPA Technology Advisor ...Cygnus Business Media
- CSP America, Inc.
- Dryden Matrix Technologies, LLC ...renamed Tax Matrix Technologies, LLC
- EDS - U.S. Government Solutions
- Ernst & Young - State Tax Resource Group
- esalestax.com ...acquired by CCH
- Electronic Tax Systems, Inc. (eTaxSys)
- Exactor, Inc.
- Fast Enterprises
- FileYourTaxes.com
- FindLaw - State Resources
- Florida Software, Inc. ...TrustFile
- Geocoding for local taxes ...Will Yancey's links
- Government Technology
- Group 1
- Hardesty - E-Commerce Tax News
- iCat, a division of Intel Online Services ...no longer operating
- Imaging Science and Services, Inc. (ISSI)
- Independent Systems ...Taxrates.com
- Industry Sales Tax Solutions, LLC (ISTS)
- ezMATRIX ...sales and use taxability matrix for the software industry
- ISG Telecom ...ZIPcomm
- Jones Day - State Tax Return Newsletter
- Kamp-Data DynamicZip
- KPTK, Inc.
- Nationtax Online, Inc. ...dissolved
- New Horizon Systems LLC
- Padgett Thompson
- Paychex
- RIA Group ...unit of Thomson Corporation
- Sabrix
- Sales Tax Clearinghouse
- Sales Tax Services
- SalesTax.com ...CCH
- SalesTaxForce
- Salestaxx.com ...no longer operating
- Salis, Inc. ...ending business in January 2008 - formerly Colonial Tax Compliance Company
- Saltech Solutions - SALT*IQ
- Saxon Tax Software, Inc. ...Florida tax compliance
- SpeedTax
- State Tax InfoSource ...PricewaterhouseCoopers
- StateTaxResearch.com
- Strafford Publications
- STF Services - Superform Service ...a BNA company
- Tax Analysts
- Taxcient ...formerly vAudit Group
- Tax Matrix Technologies, LLC ...formerly Dryden Matrix Technologies
- Taxware
- Tax Watch
- Trustfile
- Urban Institute Press
- vAudit Group, Inc. ...renamed Taxcient
- Vertex Inc.
- Watch Systems
Recruiters and Placement Services for
sales and use tax professionals
Maintained by Will Yancey.
Please e-mail any comments or suggestions to info@willyancey.com