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CONTESTING DISAGREED AUDITS, EXAMINATIONS AND REFUND DENIALS
If you have been audited by the Texas Comptroller’s Office and been incorrectly assessed taxes or denied a credit/refund you have the right to file for a REDETERMINATION OR REFUND HEARING. I have been a Texas Comptroller auditor and then a consultant for over 30...
Texas Hotel Occupancy Sales Tax Audits
Hotel Occupancy Tax is uniquely different from other tax type in Texas. Many of the rules and regulations that Texas taxpayers are familiar with because of Sales Tax do not apply to the Hotel Occupancy Tax. If the Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts has issued your...
COMPTROLLER PROPOSES SIGNIFICANT CHANGES TO TAX RULE 3.334 ‘LOCAL SALES AND USE TAX’ –
RELATED TO CERTAIN ONLINE RETAILERS
Note: The Comptroller will hold public hearings on this matter on October 17, 2022 at 9:00am in Room 170 of the Stephen F. Austin Building, 1700 Congress Ave., Austin, Texas 78701. The Background. The Comptroller of Public Accounts has proposed significant additions /...
Why do Dentists get audited by the Texas Comptroller
Why do Dentists get audited by the Texas Comptroller? Answer: Because 61% of the audits are ‘tax due’ (mostly based on purchases) Please go to link the following 2 links: Completed - Dentist Sales Tax Audits (since 1-1-2020) Qty. 115Click here to view PDF Active -...
International Fuel Tax Agreement Audit
Texas Tax Groups Introduction to Motor Fuel Use Tax Compliance Truck drivers are needed everywhere in the United States to transport important freight and supplies. You see the recruiting ads on billboards, see them on TV, and hear them on the radio. The job can be...
COLLISION REPAIR SHOP INCORRECTLY ASSESSED OVER $100,000
Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts – Administrative CPA Hearing No. 111,302 (2017) In this audit and final hearings decision the Texas Comptroller and Administrative Law Judge incorrectly assessed over $100,000 in sales tax plus a 10% penalty and interest against a...
TEXAS COMPTROLLER – ADMINISTRATIVE HEARINGS PROCESS
If you have been audited for sales, liquor, or franchise tax and do not think you owe the tax assessment, you might file for a REDETERMINATION/ADMINISTRATIVE HEARING. Your only other option is to pay the assessment by the deadline (60 days for non-fraud audits, 20...
ReManufacturing vs. Repair
Star Letter 9912942LStar Letter 200810222LStar Letter 9712138LStar Letter 200309186H Activities that have transaction tax exemptions are sometimes closely related to services with no tax incentives. The most common example of this is what we refer to as...
Auditor denied $800,000 in manufacturing exemptions until Texas Tax Group was hired!
ISSUE AT HAND State auditor interviewed taxpayer (TP) without proper representation by an experienced sales tax consultant. State auditor lacked Texas tax code/tax policy knowledge, almost costing a Texas taxpayer approximately $1.2 million in an incorrect sales and...
Texas Tax Group Reduced a Landscapers Audit $124,954.93
TEXAS TAX GROUP SIGNIFICANTLY REDUCES TAX ASSESSMENT 1 - TAX RULE 3.356 - REAL PROPERTY SERVICES 2 - TAX RULE 3.291 - CONTRACTORS 3 - TAX RULE 3.357 - NONRESIDENTIAL REAL PROPERTY REPAIR, REMODEL 4 - Texas Comptroller - Auidt Procedures - Auditor Training Manual -...