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CPA-led support for a Florida sales tax audit

A Florida Department of Revenue sales and use tax audit can involve multiple filing periods, sales channels, exemption records, purchases, tax collected, and detailed transaction support. Tavella CPA Group can review the audit notice, organize records and reconciliations, help prepare factual responses, and communicate with the Department when representation is accepted and properly authorized.

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What Florida sales tax audit support may include

  • Review of Form DR-840 and every audit notice or enclosure
  • Identification of taxes, locations, periods, and printed deadlines
  • Reconciliation of sales, returns, tax collected, and payments
  • Review of marketplace, direct-sale, and resale transactions
  • Exemption and resale-certificate organization
  • Review of use-tax and purchase records included in scope
  • Preparation of requested schedules and factual explanations
  • Tracking of information requests and audit correspondence
  • Review of proposed adjustments and separately scoped next steps

BEFORE YOU REQUEST A CALL

See what fits this service and what is scoped separately

This service may be a fit when

  • A business received written Florida Department of Revenue sales or use tax audit correspondence
  • The audit periods, filing history, records, and current response date can be identified
  • The business wants CPA-led record organization, response preparation, or authorized communication
  • The business understands that no assessment or penalty outcome can be guaranteed

These items require separate scope or another professional

  • Other states, tax types, registrations, returns, and historical bookkeeping cleanup
  • Formal protests, administrative hearings, litigation, legal opinions, and privilege issues
  • Appraisals, forensic accounting, fraud investigations, and attest services
  • Participation in Florida's Certified Audit Program unless separately verified, accepted, and documented

Start with the audit stage, periods, and requested records

For an initial scope review, identify the notice or form number, proposed audit start date, taxes and periods involved, business activities, sales channels, accounting system, records requested, prior responses, and current deadline. Sensitive records are requested through the secure portal only after the engagement and representation scope are confirmed.

COMMON QUESTIONS

Questions about florida sales tax audit support

What should I gather for an initial Florida sales tax audit review?

Have the complete audit notice, every enclosure and information request, tax periods, filed returns, sales summaries, exemption records, payment history, prior responses, and the printed dates. Do not send confidential records through the public form or ordinary email.

Can a CPA communicate with the Florida Department of Revenue?

Potentially, when the engagement includes representation and the Department's required authorization is completed. Agency contact does not begin merely because a consultation form was submitted.

Does this service guarantee that an assessment or penalty will be reduced?

No. The Department may accept, reject, or modify positions based on the law, records, audit methods, and procedural stage. Tavella CPA Group does not guarantee a no-change audit, adjustment, penalty result, protest result, or other agency outcome.

Is this the Florida Certified Audit Program?

No. This service page does not represent that Tavella CPA Group or any individual is qualified or engaged under Florida's separate Certified Audit Program. Any such engagement would require independent verification of current program, firm, CPA, and training requirements.

When might a tax attorney be appropriate?

Legal counsel should be considered for formal protests, litigation, privilege concerns, contested legal interpretations, potential fraud or criminal issues, or another matter requiring legal advice. CPA and legal work must be scoped separately.

PLAIN-ENGLISH TAX GUIDES

Use these source-backed guides to prepare for a conversation about this service. The guides provide general information, not advice for a specific situation.

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