A potential client has filled out my web form and all I know is below. He is paying the IRS on an IA for 17K that was assessed on his 2007 return. He recently had a TN Sales Tax Audit and was assessed $59K. My question is whether TN has any arrangement for doing an IA on sales tax. It strikes me as understandable if they do not because sales tax is supposed to be collected at each sale and held in trust for the State until it is regularly sent in. Anyway would those of you in or with knowledge of TN Sales Tax let me know if an IA is something the State would consider in this case?
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No Different
Erchess, the same type of thing that causes a Federal Taxpayer to be broke at tax submission time also applies to a Sales Tax Taxpayer. Namely, the money is made and is available at the time it is realized, and the taxpayer blows the money. I've heard all the excuses, but I've never seen one yet that didn't involve spending money that at one time was available in sufficient amounts to pay these taxes.
Most states have arrangements, but in many cases few will admit it. They don't want it to be known that a taxpayer can drag out his payments with the State's blessing as opposed to coughing up the entire amount.
Try the Tennessee Dept of Revenue, Sales & Use Tax Division. The state would rather NOT have to go to the time and expense of chasing down or prosecuting. Additionally, if this is a NC resident they will have to jump through more hoops than if it were a TN resident, although they would eventually prevail. -
TY Edsel
This is a TN resident. He filled out an on-line form on a site maintained by an outfit that seeks such people all over the country and I get everyone who lists a home address in NC SC or TN. I will most likely never see him face to face in this life. I can receive documents from him and send documents to him by computer and of course I can talk to him on the phone and communicate by Instant Message and Email and I can write to fax to or call the taxing agencies.Comment
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