I spoke with a contractor in my seminar last week who described a different situation. Because they're very small with limited ability to do the necessary bookkeeping, they have essentially been double paying their sales and use taxes. They knew they were, but the cost to hire someone to do it right would be more than what they're overpaying. The silver lining is that, when they were recently audited, they pointed this out. The auditor gave up really fast when she realized that anything she came up with would be offset by the overpayment.
I'm not recommending intentionally overpaying your taxes to run off an auditor, but if you do know that you're overpaying, keep this in the back of your mind when you're sitting down with the auditor.
Sales Tax Guy
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