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Tax compliance insights from real tax experts.
Practical guidance for finance and tax teams managing sales tax, exemption certificates, business licenses, and multi-state compliance.
During an exemption certificate audit, the question is not only whether the customer was exempt. The question is whether your business can prove it. That is the issue most companies are trying to answer when an audit begins: what is missing, and what might we owe? If certificates are missing, expired, incomplete, or hard to…
California SB 122 expands sales tax rules for certain SaaS and software transactions beginning January 1, 2027. Learn what businesses selling into California should review now, including product taxability, customer location, system settings, and sales tax processes.
AkuCalc has been named a 2026 SaaS Awards Finalist across five categories, recognizing innovation in sales tax automation and our commitment to helping finance teams simplify compliance with confidence.
Missing exemption certificates can create sales tax audit risk when a business cannot prove why tax was not charged. Learn how certificates go missing, what happens during an audit, and how better exemption certificate management helps manufacturers, distributors, wholesalers, contractors, dealers, retailers, and resale-based businesses build a cleaner process before an audit begins.
Multi-state sales tax problems often start with ordinary growth decisions, such as opening a warehouse, expanding into new states, adding sales channels, or crossing nexus thresholds. Learn what manufacturers, distributors, and wholesalers need from sales tax software to manage rates, exemption certificates, ERP integrations, and audit risk with more confidence.
Why Sales Tax Compliance Became More Complicated for Manufacturers For many manufacturers, sales tax compliance changed dramatically after the Wayfair decision. Not overnight. But steadily. Companies that once only worried about sales tax in a handful of states suddenly found themselves dealing with new filing obligations, nexus thresholds, and compliance requirements across much larger portions…
Why Sales Tax Audits Create So Much Stress for Accounting Teams Most accounting teams do not think about sales tax audits every day. Until the audit notice shows up. Then suddenly: For many companies, the real stress of a sales tax audit is not the audit itself. It’s the scramble that happens beforehand. Why Sales…
🎧 Prefer listening? Listen to the audio version of this article. Why Exemption Certificate Management Becomes So Frustrating If you’re a controller at a manufacturing company, you probably didn’t wake up one day thinking: “I can’t wait to spend my afternoon tracking down missing exemption certificates.” But somehow, it ends up on your desk. A…