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Your Guide to Surviving a Sales Tax Audit
Why you’ll have to pay sales tax on drinks
you didn’t sell:
If you are unfortunate enough to go through a sales tax audit of your bar operations, you’ll be required
to pay sales tax on drinks you never sold.
If your bartenders stole or gave-away any drinks, you’ll be required to pay extra sales taxes. And when your bartenders over-pour, which almost all do, you’ll be required to pay extra sales taxes. That’s because the tax audit process is so imprecise and arbitrary that it falsely identifies theft and over-pouring as under-reported sales. In effect, the tax process will conclude that you cheated on your taxes. And as a result, you’ll be assessed taxes on drinks you never sold – plus interest and penalties for cheating. Bar owners who honestly reported and paid their sales taxes are facing huge tax bills that threaten to put them out of business.
In this paper, we will explain how a tax audit works, then show you how you can appeal an unfair
tax audit and WIN.