SALT Blog – State and Local Tax Blog
The State and Local Tax ("SALT") blog provides news updates and commentary about state and local tax issues.
You can expect to find relevant information about topics such as income (corporate and personal) tax, franchise tax, sales and use tax, property (real and personal) tax, fuel tax, capital stock tax, bank tax, gross receipts tax and withholding tax.
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by Stewart Weintraub and Jennifer Weidler
As a means of increasing corporate tax collections, some states have turned to contingent-fee audit contractors – sometimes referred to as "bounty hunters." These bounty hunter firms are compensated based upon a percentage of the amount of tax assessed, creating an incentive for the firms to not only aggressively audit taxpayers, but to stretch interpretations of the law to and beyond the limits. Having an economic interest in the assessments resulting from the bounty hunter audits, creates an inherent conflict of interest.
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