We have yet to meet anyone who "enjoys" the process of preparing state and local sales tax returns. It's labor intensive, tedious, and only gets done because someone was assigned to do it. It doesn't bring revenue to the bottom line. It's just more overhead and it's a necessary evil. The returns must be filed, on time and accurately.

Available Options For Preparing Returns

Do It Completely By Hand: Interestingly, most companies handle their sales tax returns manually. They may use an Excel spreadsheet to speed up the process, but even that takes time. This makes for a very time-consuming process each month.

Forms Software: Forms software can save you time, but you still have to manually gather your data, and manipulate it into a workable format before the data can be imported into the forms software.

Outsourcing: Because it is so tedious and labor-intensive, and yet so critical, many companies will outsource the process to another firm. Perhaps your company is also considering out-sourcing this process. Of course, one of your major concerns will be to balance the cost of outsourcing against doing it in-house. There are tremendous benefits to outsourcing this process, but the cost of doing so has been so costly, that many have avoided it.

Until now!

PJCo has a solution. We use world-class software and our own proprietary streamlined process to prepare sales tax returns accurately, timely and cost-effectively. We customize our software to import your data in your format, AND, in most cases we can prepare and file your sales tax returns for less than you can do it yourself.

Once we've customized our software to receive your information, you just send us your records electronically each month, and we send back ready-to-sign-and-mail returns or we can file them for you.

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We do all the work. Our Compliance Service allows you to:

• Cut the risk of relying on one person for your filing;
• Eliminate the headache of trying to stay current with so many states and their statutes, forms, and rate changes;
• Remove the tedious and mostly dreadful thought of monthly filing deadlines;
• Streamline your tax department all at the same time; and
• Save bottom-line dollars.

Added Benefits Of Our Service

• No long-term contracts or commitments
• You pay only on actual returns filed that month
• Your returns are reviewed by an experienced state & local tax consultant
• Receive 1 hour of FREE consultation* each month
  (a $250 value)
• Receive FREE sales tax audit reviews*
• Receive FREE sales tax rate change updates

It's The Easiest, Most Cost-Effective Way Ever To Prepare Your State And Local Sales Tax Returns.

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How It Works

Once set up in our system, you simply send us your sales transaction data from your accounting system in an electronic format.

We import the data into our software that performs the calculations and prepares the individual tax forms. The electronic form can then be sent back you electronically where you can simply sign and file or we can file them for you.

Compliance Plan Options Available:

Option 1: Full

This is the most common plan chosen by our clients. In most cases companies are looking for a quicker, more reliable, and more cost effective option to doing returns manually.

With this option, we transition all returns to our service.

Option 2: Partial Some companies can benefit from our service by giving us just the more difficult or more time consuming states retaining the rest for themselves.

In some cases, just a select number of states can make up the bulk of your work load.

Option 3: Back-Up Some companies are not looking to outsource their returns but sometimes experience frustration with employees who take vacation, or become sick, or quit, leaving a large burden of returns behind. This option provides a safety net against these common occurrences.

Once set up in our system, this option allows us to be "on-call" to process your returns only when needed. AND since we only bill on actual returns filed, there's no charge for this service, other than the setup, until we actually prepare returns for you.

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Acceptable Data File Format: We can accept files in one of 20 different file formats, and if not available, often we can custom convert your data to meet our parameters. Transaction data must include, at a minimum, the tax amount and the applicable zip code.

Free 1-hour Professional Advice: Consultation hours are non-cumulative. They can be used for any state & local tax purpose.

Free Sales Tax Audit Reviews: There are usually no hourly fees for our sales tax audit reviews. We review sales tax audits on a performance basis. We are usually willing to charge a percentage of the refunds or reductions in the audit that we find and secure for your company.

The Situation: A Large Advertising Company was spending 80 hours a month with considerable mistakes and headaches compiling, collating, and manually filling out numerous state and local tax returns. As a result a lot of projects were falling behind.

The PJCo Result: With PJCo's proprietary software system the headaches were relieved and mistakes eliminated. Eighty hours of manpower is now used more productively on other strategic tax functions and returns are processed perfectly and punctually every month at a tremendous savings.

Quote: "Too much time on such necessary but mundane tasks impaired our ability to complete needed tax planning and other accounting needs. Peisner Johnson & Company provided the workable solution that relieved us from the headache of dealing with all the returns, mistakes and questions, not to mention the savings. Impressive technology and people."

The Situation: A Communications Company was so busy that getting the state and local sales tax returns was almost always left to the last minute and seemingly always-required Herculean efforts. They were swamped with a myriad of issues, sales tax being only one of them. As a result, no one person was relegated to such mundane but necessary and timely work. Because of a lack of urgency and understanding, many mistakes and late filings resulted in missed deadlines, which meant costly penalties.

The PJCo Result: We were able to take the data and produce completed returns in all local and state jurisdictions completed on time with no mistakes. With our software and our expertise we used their system to extract data efficiently so that returns could be prepared perfectly every time and on time. PJCo eliminated all penalties & interest and taxes were now paid on time.

Quote: "If not for you we could not have done it. Peisner Johnson & Company took care of this tremendous burden and provided an excellent solution. Peisner Johnson & Company went one step further and coordinated our efforts for a smooth streamlined system for gathering the necessary data that provided us with a greater understanding of our business."

The Situation: A golf course management company was growing and adding locations faster than they could keep up with.

The PJCo Result: When PJCo took over the filing of state and local sales tax returns, we handled all the problems and correspondence from all the jurisdictions, which was a daily occurrence. PJCo fixed the problems by providing returns on time, which eliminated all problem correspondence, penalties, and interest.

Quote: "While other companies tried they couldn't get a handle on our systems and problems. Our accountants were swamped and couldn't get the returns done on time. Thanks Peisner Johnson."