Businesses with many suppliers and vendors will often be charged sales tax on the goods and services they purchase. Often, the sales tax has been incorrectly charged, and the business can seek to recover those overpaid taxes.Â
A Refund Review is the process of looking through purchase data to find incorrect sales or use tax charges or accruals. Once the data has been reviewed and overpayments identified, a refund application is prepared and submitted to the vendor, or directly to the state, and the funds are returned directly to the business.Â
Refund reviews are also useful if a business is undergoing a sales tax audit, as states will often allow for overpayments to be used as an offset against liabilities identified.Â
Location agnostic, but these states have particularly underutilized and less known exemptions across the key industries outlined above:Â
Source Advisors provides an end-to-end solution for the sales tax recovery process. Our experts leverage our proprietary software to accurately identify all overpayments, and subsequently manage the refund process on the client’s behalf.Â
As part of the refund review process, our experts will also deploy strategies to ensure that these overpayments no longer occur going forward.Â
The statute of limitations varies from state to state, but generally sits at 3-4 years. Additionally, clients going through a sales tax audit can have an extended lookback period to offset the current audit period.Â
Refund reviews should be undertaken once every 2-3 years to ensure that funds are always recoverable under the statute of limitations.Â
Timelines vary significantly. It can take anywhere from a month to 18 months.Â
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