Sales & Use Tax
Davis & Davis specializes in serving the sales and use tax needs of companies in all industries, of all sizes, and throughout Texas and all 50 states. We offer comprehensive services ranging from sales and use tax training, to our specialty of defending and protecting the interests of businesses during sales tax audits.

Our firm is committed to protecting companies from the often devastating effects of non-compliance with sales and use tax laws. We want to help ensure that more businesses throughout the United States receive adequate sales and use tax protection. In order to help ensure that more businesses receive the sales and use tax protection they need and deserve, our firm focuses on building strategic alliances with other accountants, attorneys, bookkeepers, associations, and other professionals, while maintaining working relationships with the various taxing authorities.
  • Audit Management/Audit Defense
    We can represent your organization during a sale and use tax audit to get you the best results. You have specific legal rights with respect to the manner in which audit procedures are applied, and the way taxing authorities may pursue the collection of delinquent taxes. We are committed to ensuring that you receive the most professional treatment from tax collectors, and that your rights are not violated. We will vigorously defend your interests from the beginning of the audit through the appeals process, seeking to minimize your audit assessment.

  • Sales Tax Maintenance Programs
    Specially tailored programs designed to help ensure that you are in compliance with the various taxing laws, regulations, interpretations, and administrative policies. These programs include regular monitoring of your sales activities, and provide tremendous benefits with respect to various money-saving opportunities, and in minimizing audit exposure.

  • Pre-Audit Compliance Reviews
    A review of your record keeping and business operations designed determine if you are either underpaying or overpaying your sales and use tax liability. This is the most important action a business owner can undertake to help guard against a potentially devastating multi-year audit assessment in the future.

  • Reverse Audits and Management of Claims for Refunds
    Evaluating your operations and isolating areas of overpayment of sales or use taxes and managing the Claim for Refund of any such overpayments. The evaluation is free and if we do not find any areas of overpayment you still receive a free review of your operations.

  • Analysis of NEXUS Issues
    With the issue of multi-state taxation becoming a growing concern, your company needs to determine if it has a legal presence (NEXUS) within Texas, or other taxing jurisdictions. We can provide help with the complex and confusing laws regarding NEXUS. If you are not a Texas company but you are making any sales into Texas, including labor, you MUST be concerned with NEXUS. This is also true of many other taxing jurisdictions. If you have agents, property, or make deliveries into a taxing jurisdiction where you do not have operations, you may have NEXUS and may be required to collect and remit sales and use tax.

  • Legal Research and Written Legal Opinions
    Do you have questions regarding the application of sales and use tax to your operations? Even if you are not selling tangible personal property, you may be providing a taxable service on which you should be collecting sales tax. We can provide you with the answers to these questions.

  • Compliance
    Outsourcing your sales/use reporting responsibility allows you to remove the tedious and mostly dreadful thought of monthly filing deadlines, cut the risk of relying on one person for your filing, eliminate the headache of trying to stay current with so many states and their statutes, forms, and rate changes, and streamline your tax department all at the same time. We can also register your organization to collect sales and use tax when you establish NEXUS in a taxing jurisdiction where you were not previously registered.

  • Voluntary Disclosure
    If your company has identified areas of non-compliance for sale and use tax reporting and have NOT been contacted regarding an audit or investigation, our firm can negotiate Voluntary Disclosure Agreements with taxing authorities on your behalf. Our firm negotiates with taxing authorities to limit the number of years on which tax will be assessed for failure to collect tax, as well as the waiver of statutory penalties and interest.

  • Educational Seminars and Training
    We offer a variety of specialized training courses ranging from sole proprietors to corporate or association training. These training courses are designed to help taxpayers and other professionals correctly apply the various sales and use tax laws, regulations, interpretations, and audit methodologies to their respective business operations. We are also able to develop seminars designed to the unique needs of individual clients, and we encourage your input on seminar or course topics of interest to you

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