Multistate Group Postpones Action on Real-Time Sales Tax Audits

The Multistate Tax Commission offered some encouraging words for a process for “real-time” sales tax audits of large retailers, but postponed immediate action on the proposal due to limited staff resources.

The intergovernmental tax agency’s audit committee expressed interest Monday in a “Sales Tax Compliance Assurance Review program" proposed by Nikki Dobay, a Portland, Ore., tax partner at Greenberg Traurig LLP and a former senior tax counsel with the business-focused Council on State Taxation. The proposal would have sellers with complex compliance issues come forward and participate ...