Tax Services
Special Consulting and Advising Services are provided by ADP's Tax and Government Affairs Department- one of the industry's largest independent groups of tax attorneys and researchers specializing in sales and use taxes.
Special Consulting & Advising Services
ADP provides tax consulting and advising services to companies based on an array of industries, markets, and locations. Tax planning issues may involve limited strategic advice on transaction tax issues, such as
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Drop shipment regimes to minimize sales tax collection obligations (USA)
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Nexus exposure review through inadvertent use of fulfillment houses (USA)
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Triangulation simplifications to minimize cash flow outlays (EU)
- Application of special schemas for digital sales - distance selling, for example (EU)
Specific areas of consultancy and advisory include:
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Research issues: ADP examines the taxability of tangible personal property and services, e-commerce transactions, fees, entities and used of property or enjoyment of services, and many others on a vast number of jurisdictions (50 U.S. states and 13 provinces in Canada, and on more than 200 other countries around the world). Specialty research services to determine taxability of a client's goods or services.
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Auditing assistance: ADP assists companies in the auditing process through tax processing and reporting products that provide key information to effective tax auditing. In terms of audit defense, ADP can provide a full range of legal as well as accounting expertise in the design and development of defensible positions both for state audit (Sales and Use Tax) and international audits (VAT). Resources are available to provide expert advice and testimony in transfer pricing audits and in support of Advance Pricing Agreement documentation.
Adding Custom Product Codes (Goods/Services)
ADP provides custom product codes based upon the tax decisions provided from customer, or tax decisions from ADP sales and use tax research. Either the customer or ADP, depending upon the contract, maintains the custom product codes.
Product Code Mapping (Goods/Services)
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Review the customer's products and assign appropriate product codes that are contained in our system.
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Map customer’s Stock Keeping Units (SKU's) to either ADP general release product codes or custom product codes based on customers taxing decisions.
Adding Standard Tax Calculation by Region
ADP analyzes standard taxability of product and creates the logic into its applications to calculate the appropriate tax based on jurisdiction, entity or use products.
Drafting Letter Rulings
ADP assists clients with special tax issues to request letter rulings from the state, on behalf of the company/client. ADP would draft a letter with all the relevant facts asking the state how the client should be taxed/or not taxed.
Tax Compliance Process Analysis
ADP creates test scenarios based on custom specifications, process tests through applicable ADP product(s) and/or language(s), and verify that the results meet the client requirements. ADP would also test any changes/updates that ADP is responsible for maintaining.
Adding Tax Returns into TaxSolver
ADP provides new and updated forms/returns for customer. ADP, depending upon the contract, maintains the updating of the form/return.
Tax Rule Data Building
ADP provides tax decisions for parallel markets within Taxware Enterprise. Decisions may be provided by the customer or based on research conducted by ADP (i.e. liquor tax, occupancy tax).
Converting or Migrating Client Data
ADP assists clients with the migration of legacy data (from the Sales and Use Tax System) such as jurisdiction information, product codes, SKU's, and tax type data and converts it into Taxware Enterprise input data (taxing jurisdiction codes, GS/EU codes, transaction type, etc.). Some development tools may be required.
Interested in learning more? Contact us or call at 1.877.TAXWARE (1.877.729.9273).