12 Days of Sales Tax

With Thanksgiving behind us and Christmas and year-end rapidly approaching, I thought a “Christmas-themed” sales tax post might be fun.

Here’s to “The “12 Days of Sales Tax”:

• On the first day of sales tax, my auditor gave to me – a notice of a large assessment.

• On the second day of sales tax, my boss gave to me – two invoices with no sales tax.

• On the third day of sales tax, my sales team brought to me – three taxability questions.

• On the fourth day of sales tax, the mailman brought to me – four nexus questionnaires.

• On the fifth day of sales tax, my auditor gave to me – five audit notices!

• On the sixth day of sales tax, my boss asked me to complete – six GL account recons.

• On the seventh day of sales tax, my email gave to me – seven vendors telling me sales tax is easy.

• On the eighth day of sales tax, my AP department sent back to me – eight check requests.

• On the ninth day of sales tax, my telephone brought to me – nine jurisdictional inquiries.

• On the tenth day of sales tax, my marketing team brought to me – ten new product launches.

• On the eleventh day of sales tax, the mailman brought to me – eleven sales tax rate changes.

• On the twelfth day of sales tax, my email gave to me – twelve overdue tax returns.

After you read through the list once, then you might want to go back through again and sing it – do this in your head though – unless you’re one of those types that actually enjoys bad karaoke. (We have one of those in our office.)