Published on 16, Aug 2022

Tired of the Fine Print? Give Your Sales Tax Issues to Solve My Sales Tax

If you are a business owner, fill in the blank: doing your own sales tax compliance is about as fun as _____. “I hear a lot of crazy answers to that one,” says Charli Harrell, the CEO and Founder of Solve My Sales Tax, LLC. “One of our clients said, ‘Driving home a busload of young kids on the last day of school. Another, a guy, said, ‘Sitting through the movie Titanic for the twentieth time.’ You get the picture - the people who turn their sales tax needs over to Solve My Sales Tax are more than ready to free themselves of the aggravation, and we are very happy to help them out.”

At Solve My Sales Tax, Charli and her team of five sales tax specialists work every day to help their clients to stay sales-tax compliant in the United States. It’s a bigger job than most consumers likely realize, as that one percentage added on at the register can vary between the country’s 12,000+ sales tax jurisdictions.

“As a business owner, when you first realize how complex the sales tax regulations really are, you can feel overwhelmed and wonder what you’ve gotten yourself into,” says Charli. “That’s why we stepped in - at Solve My Sales Tax, we wanted to relieve companies of their sales tax problems so that they could concentrate on running their businesses.”

Charli accomplished this by first analyzing the market to see where the gaps in services were and then creating services at Solve My Sales Tax that would address each one. 

“A lot of clients struggle with understanding when they have triggered a sales tax nexus,” she says, “so we created our Nexus Analysis to solve this problem. With it, businesses can better understand their sales data and business activity. We have become very good at registering businesses for sales tax in the right jurisdiction, which for most people is a big relief.”

Solve My Sales Tax also routinely sets up an entire streamlined system with the software of its clients’ choice that connects to their POS system and simplifies/automates sales tax compliance. 

“It’s all designed to free owners from the aggravation of sales tax compliance so that they can concentrate on running their companies,” says Charli. “They can leave those pesky sales tax details to us.”

Recently, Solve My Sales Tax introduced “One Simple Monthly Price,” which packages the company’s services into easy-to-understand price structures. Charli reveals that this has been very popular, especially with businesses that in the past struggled to forecast how much they would need to spend on sales tax.

“We got rid of the old hourly billing structure, which was ambiguous and hampered companies’ efforts to create accurate budgets,” she states. “Now we have one simple monthly price that our clients can depend on, and that has been very helpful for them.”

She gives an example of a simple price structure that is popular with small businesses. For clients who need sales tax filings in three states and do not use a sales tax software, Solve My Sales Tax charges $375 for three filings and $400 for two hours of consulting each month. 

“It also includes free Notice Management and Monthly Nexus Analysis, for a total of $775/month,” she says. “It is one simple monthly price that companies can rely on.”

For companies who wonder about the value of outsourcing their sales tax needs, the average amount that small emerging businesses spend on sales tax compliance is $11,000 each month.

“That is a sizable chunk out of their revenue, but it’s even worse for small-to-mid-sized businesses: $17,000,” says Charli. “Think about how much you have to pay a sales tax accountant. How would you like to save about half of that by outsourcing to us and using sales tax automation software? That’s money you can invest back into your company and grow even further.”

As the United States’ sales tax regulations are legendary, Solve My Sales Tax sees clients from around the world. “It’s one of the benefits of working remotely,” Charli believes. “We can easily pivot and meet the needs of our clients, including accounting firms that use us on a white-label basis. Solve My Sales Tax is very adaptable.”

The message from Solve My Sales Tax is simple: staying sales-tax compliant is vitally important but need not take up hours of your workdays. 

“If America’s sales tax regulations were put into a book, it would be incredibly long,” says Charli. “Why not outsource your sales tax issues to Solve My Sales Tax instead of trying to understand its complexities? We know that book backwards and forwards, and we can save you a ton of time, all while helping you stay sales-tax compliant.”

Solve My Sales Tax, founded by CEO Charli Harrell, is helping businesses to navigate the complexities of sales tax in the United States. It specializes in nexus analysis, state registrations, state filings, creation and implementation of streamlined sales tax systems, product taxability determination, notice management and resolution, general sales tax consulting, sales tax for merging and splitting businesses, sales tax audit support, and more.

For more information, please visit https://solvemysalestax.com/.