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Case Studies

We offer comprehensive services ranging from sales and use tax training, to our specialty of defending and protecting the interests of businesses during sales tax audits.

Audit Defense & Payment Arrangements

Constructing a Sound Sales Tax Defense

Davis, Davis & Harmon LLC constructed a sales tax defense to resolve an audit that lingered over 12-months

RMI Constructionon Inc. is a commercial and residential marble contractor based in Irving, TX which serves the DFW metroplex area. Annual sales average of $1,500,000 over the 4 years of the audit period. The company’s clientele includes restaurants, supermarket chains, gas station outlets, and residences. The company was selected for a routine Texas sales/use tax audit and chose their CPA firm to handle the audit.

Challenges

  • RMI had been accessed more than $500,000 including penalties and interest during the Texas sales tax audit.
  • The taxpayer CPA engaged Davis & Davis to represent RMI and to effectively defend them during audit and redetermination phase of the sales tax audit.
  • The auditor was not sympathetic when asked to give more time after the audit had gone on for a year prior to Davis & Davis being engaged to assist RMI with the outstanding audit issues.

Strategy Leads to Big Win

Audit Defense

Davis Davis & Harmon LLC (DDH) implemented an audit defense strategy which won over the auditors and saved the client millions.

DDH was engaged by a client to manage a routine sales/use tax and business/occupational license tax audit for the state of Washington. DDH took over the audit midstream and had to contend with a series of unwieldy audit schedules with unsubstantiated tax assessments and liabilities.

Proven Results

Davis Outperforms Goliath

Davis Outperforms Goliath

Client was selected for a routine sales/use tax audit and hired a Big 4 consulting group to manage the audit. Because the audit lingered over five-years in the hands of the Big 4 firm, the auditor closed the audit reflecting a huge tax liability which was later appealed. DDH was hired during the appeals process to defend the audit.

Data Technology Meets Compliance

Data Technology Meets Compliance

DDH was engaged by a Fortune 500 retailer and power-generation company to perform a sales tax compliance review to identify potential audit exposure, design the detailed transaction data file, improve their compliance process, and implement
audit sampling best practices.

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