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Challenge

Tame your complex tax challenges.

With over 11,000 US tax jurisdictions, there is a lot of opportunity for error and overpaying sales or use taxes. Protect your bottom line and ensure that you pay only what you owe.

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11,000

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US tax jurisdictions, but also global tax rules.

There is a lot of opportunity for error and overpaying sales or use taxes. Unfortunately, state and local tax auditors generally don’t look for overpayments of sales and use taxes, but a reverse sales and use tax recovery audit does.

$

3

M

Just one refund in sales and use tax overpayments.

One of our sales and use tax recovery audit clients discovered it was paying both sales and use taxes on the same purchases. We found it, and got it back.

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15.9

M

Recoveries from three sales and use tax audits.

A company's tax leaders were worried because they kept getting notices for underpaid taxes with penalties and interest. apexanalytix was hired to review all sales and use tax data and we found them $15.9M.

Solution

Reverse sales and use tax audits deliver value and offset underpayments

Everything a company buys and sells has complicated rules for sales and use tax. For example, data center services are not taxable if they are in certain states.

 

Even definitions can make things confusing. In most states, there is no tax on cloud-based software if it has “multiple points of use.” This means the software is sold or bought to be used in more than one tax jurisdiction.

 

Also, sales and use tax rules change. To complicate this even more, a recent legal case changed how online purchases are taxed by changing the tax nexus—which determines the tax jurisdiction. So, what was once taxable is no longer taxable. There is a lot to keep up with.

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Features

Comprehensive, multistate program

… built on decades of experience and unmatched software. We  review tax-related work processes, determine whether your payment systems are properly configured, analyze disbursement data, and recover what you’ve overpaid.

Tax auditors then work directly with suppliers and tax jurisdictions to resolve claims.

We can use the same data as an AP recovery audit, so it makes sense to look for sales and use tax overpayments if we are already doing an accounts payable audit.

Surveillance

Technology that analyzes all transactions with audit software.

Each tax review includes an in-depth analysis using apexanalytix's software that quickly analyzes large volumes of data from disparate systems and payment platforms. This technology advantage allows us to find more and recover more in less time. We use the same technology for pre-audit planning and to design custom sales and use tax solutions tailor-fit to your operations.

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Full-time pros with experience

Unlike companies who deploy armies of temporary workers or junior personnel to conduct tax reviews, your apexanalytix team will include only highly experienced auditors who are seasoned experts in multistate taxes. The experience of our team and the depth of our technology-enabled analysis help ensure claims are refunded. Our tax team has recovered more than 90 percent of the refund claim amounts filed with tax authorities.

Continuous Validation

Feedback to fix root causes

Each sales and use tax review includes a comprehensive Tax Management Assessment Report to document the root cause of problems we uncover. You’ll be able to prevent future overpayments by proactively resolving issues with work processes, ERP system settings, proper tax law interpretation and more.

Tax Compliance

Part of a bigger picture of audit expertise

35 years of experience performing audits means we have some of the best people and tools to make your audit efficient and productive. Many clients combine the sales and use tax review with an accounts payable recovery audit, contract compliance review, and unclaimed property audit. Then the value really appreciates.

Tax software user?

Wait...do you use a tax software program?

We find sales and use tax recoveries in companies with even the most carefully configured sales and use tax software.

Mistakes still happen, sometimes in spite of, and sometimes even because of the sales tax software. A sales and use tax recovery audit can help you configure your software when you see the findings.

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$3M

Recovered for a $20B technology company - they paid sales and use tax on the same purchases.

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$1.5M

Recovered for a $3B office equipment manufacturer who paid tax on non-taxable software.

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Recover all the overpayments

We're experts at finding recoveries throughout the procure-to-pay process

Funding

Accounts Payable Recovery Audit

Besides bringing in recovered money from duplicate payments, statement credits and debit balances, an accounts payable recovery audit can find out which controls are working, where the gaps are, and how you can fix them.

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Prohibited Lists

Contract Compliance

You spend a lot of time negotiating favorable terms to save your company money. But our contract compliance recovery audits are finding more recoveries because of supply chain disruptions of the last several years.

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Unclaimed Property

There's money out there for all your business entities in states, counties, cities, agencie and even foreign governments. We can help you find it with an unclaimed property recovery audit.

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Overpayment Prevention

Catch overpayments before they go out the door with the most powerful duplicate analytics on the market.

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Ultimate supplier management.

Protect your company’s reputation and revenue from the first time you engage with a supplier and throughout the supplier lifecycle.

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Supplier Management

Every. All. 100%

A single, central supplier hub for every supplier, all of your policies and integration with 100% of your source-to-pay systems.

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Intelligent Data

Data in. Gold out.

The fastest way to validate and enrich your third-party data with APIs tapping 1,000+ trusted data sources and 250M+ company golden records.

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Supplier Risk Management

Disrupt the disruption.

Catastrophic disruptions caused by supplier fraud and risk could happen anytime, to any business. Protect yourself with proactive supplier risk management technology.

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Audit and Recovery

$9 billion in overpayments prevented or recovered annually.

More insights. More expertise. More supplier intelligence. More recoveries than any other provider in the world.

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Case Studies

Peak performers
pick apex.

Whether long-form webinars or in-person conference presentations, our clients love to share best practices - what drives measurable value - with their peers.

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$15.9M

Recovered in three sales and use tax audits

Three Audits, $15.9 million in Sales and Use Tax Recoveries

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Resources

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Hundreds of product overviews, reports, customer-led webinars and on-demand product demos.

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