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Florida Sales Tax Audits: Five Areas Businesses Should Review

Florida businesses can reduce audit surprises by reviewing five areas: untaxed purchases, online and marketplace sales, construction transactions, restaurant sales, and exemption records. Each can create a gap between what a business reported and what its invoices, accounting records, or sales systems show. These are practical audit-readiness priorities, not a published FDOR list of industries or […]

Florida Sales and Use Tax Audits: Data, Electronic Auditing & Compliance Risks Businesses Should Know

Florida businesses increasingly operate in a digital accounting environment. Sales are processed electronically, purchases are recorded in accounting software, federal and state tax returns create multiple sources of financial information, and businesses routinely purchase equipment and supplies from vendors located outside Florida. The Florida Department of Revenue (FDOR) operates in that same data-rich environment. That […]

Preparing for a Re-Audit Before It’s Even Scheduled

Primary Keyword: prepare for Florida DOR re-audit Secondary Keywords: Florida DOR repeat audit preparation; post-audit compliance review; Florida sales tax re-audit readiness; Follow-Up Readiness Review; Florida DOR audit closing letter follow-up Category: After an Audit, Compliance I wrote last month about why Florida DOR often comes back within two to three years of closing an […]

Case Study: How a Pre-Audit Review Cut a Client’s Exposure

Every version of this story starts the same way: a business owner calls after getting a Notice of Intent to Audit Books and Records, not before. This case is different because the owner called first. The details below are a composite drawn from the kind of pre-audit engagements I run regularly — condensed and altered […]

How Far Back Can the Florida DOR Audit You?

This is one of the first questions almost every client asks once a Notice of Intent to Audit Books and Records shows up: “How many years are they actually going to look at?” It’s a fair question, and the honest answer is more layered than most business owners expect. The standard audit period is only […]

Independent Contractor vs. Employee: How FDOR Reemployment Auditors Make the Call

A reemployment tax audit rarely starts with a question about a specific worker. It usually starts with a question about a specific number — an unemployment claim that surprised the business, a rate that jumped for no obvious reason, or a routine sales tax audit that happened to notice a large “contract labor” line item […]

Why Florida DOR Often Re-Audits Businesses Within 2-3 Years

Clients ask me a version of this question all the time, usually a year or so after their audit closed: “It’s over, right? They’re not going to come back?” I understand why they want to hear yes. Nobody wants to relive an audit. But the honest answer, based on thirty years on both sides of […]

What Is a Follow-Up Readiness Review, and Why Do You Need One?

I hear a version of this question almost every time a Follow-Up Readiness Review comes up with a client who just closed out an audit: “The audit is over, I paid what I owed — why would I pay for another review on top of that?” It’s a fair question, and it deserves a straight […]

The Audit Is Over — Why the Real Work Often Starts Now

Slug: /audit-is-over-real-work-starts-now/ | Category: After an Audit, Compliance Most business owners treat the day they sign a Florida DOR audit’s closing paperwork as the finish line. In my experience on the Department’s side, that day was closer to the starting line for the work that actually determines whether the business is in a stronger position […]