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Consultant describes how sales-tax monitoring finds misallocated revenue
Summary
HDL, a sales- and use-tax recovery firm, described data-matching and state-review steps it uses to find local sales-tax allocations that were credited to other jurisdictions and to recover revenue for Willows.
Matt Hinderliter, a principal at HDL Companies, gave a 30-minute presentation at the May 13 Willows City Council meeting describing how his firm identifies misallocations of local sales and use tax and works with the California Department of Tax and Fee Administration (CDTFA) to correct them.
Hinderliter said HDL compares multiple data sources — the city’s business-license files, a commercial business directory (Data Axle USA), and CDTFA extracts — to find businesses that appear in the city but are coded to the wrong tax area or the wrong permit. "I lead the sales and use tax recovery or…
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