In the last 15 years or so, awareness of sales tax in M&A has intensified. The prospective buyer takes the understandable step of rooting for every red flag for past, potential sales tax problems with states, bringing in analysts and researchers who start looking for the easy findings and start making a lot of broad assumptions about the prospective seller’s past sales tax problems.
Do you the buyer know what to look for in potential past problems? Are you a seller prepared to defend or improve your past sales tax position?
- Decision tree for sales tax obligations
- Estimating exposure
Source: www.taxconnex.com
