EXTAX^®
Controlling and Recapturing Sales and Use Tax Overpayments

EXTAX® topics:

• What Are the Steps in an Extax^® Review?
• Who Can Benefit from Extax^®?
• Why Choose Arthur Consulting Group?
• EXTAX^® AUDIT
• Special Topics in Sales & Use Taxes

Arthur Consulting Group, Inc.'s Extax® service provides is a review of sales, use and other excise tax payments made on past purchases, designed to recover tax overpayments by obtaining refunds and credits from taxing jurisdictions or vendors for them. This recovery process may be performed either on a stand-alone basis or in response to a state audit, almost always resulting in a significant reduction or elimination of the state's proposed audit deficiency. Arthur Consulting Group has provided Extax® reviews to corporations in every major industry and large public entities for over a decade, with consistent success.

The most common types of taxes covered by an Extax^® review are:

• Sales and Use      
• Gross Receipts          
• Severance
• Utility Users     
• Business License
• Privilege   
• Business & Occupational
• Fuel         
• Environmental

Since Arthur Consulting Group's principals originated this service, we have consistently delivered significant, supportable savings to our clients.

"Virtually every company in America engaged in multistate transactions is overpaying some type of state or local excise tax."

What Are the Steps in an Extax^® Review?

Extax^® is specifically designed to be a turnkey solution, requiring very little time on the part of our client. Arthur Consulting Group begins with a brief consultation to determine the procedures involved in our client's system of excise tax payment, to review the workplan, and to identify the location of records. No further time is required of our client's staff.

Extax® covers all phases of the overpayment recovery process, acting . as an interface with taxing jurisdictions and suppliers. We represent our client at all administrative hearings, and provide whatever assistance is necessary for our client to realize tax recoveries.

Arthur Consulting Group prepares all of the substantiating documentation for each tax recovery opportunity identified. We give our client a full formal management report, complete with recommendations for overcoming any procedural causes of past overpayments. To ensure that Extax® is beneficial for years to come, we also include a training seminar for our client's staff to help them launch long-term solutions to tax overpayments.

To ensure that Extax^® is beneficial for years to come, we also include a training seminar for our client's staff to help them launch long-term solutions to tax overpayments.

Extax® is compensated on a contingency basis, so there is no up-front cost to our client-no hourly fees , or add-on expenses.

In short, Extax^® is a complete, cost-free solution to excise tax overpayments.

Who Can Benefit from Extax^®?

Companies with large excise tax liabilities are most likely to suffer routine overpayments. It is also common for certain types of overpayments to run through entire industries.

Because of the number of people involved in their administration, sales and use taxes are inherently difficult to consistently control. Multistate businesses in particular are subject to a myriad of highly complex, inconsistent and constantly changing excise tax regulations, rates, expectations, exceptions and exemptions that vary by state, locality, customer, product line, and specific product usage.

Common indications of a company's need for Extax^® include:

• Large excise tax liability
• Many people involved in administration
• Many inputs into the production process
• Multistate operations