State Income and Franchise Tax
Whether it is providing assistance with a tax audit, creating and implementing a tax-efficient corporate structure, or performing a due diligence review, Ryan delivers strategic solutions for minimizing state income and franchise tax.
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Ryan’s full service State Income and Franchise Tax practice helps clients achieve maximize tax savings through recovery and compliance services. Our multijurisdictional team serves as a strategic partner alongside our clients to help them take advantage of opportunities, mitigate risk, and automate processes, which provides them with additional capital to further realize their business goals.
Tax Refunds
Audit Representation
Tax Compliance
Strategic Tax Planning
Tax Research
RAR Support
BPOL Tax
State Tax Refund Services
At Ryan, we don’t simply review our clients’ records for tax recovery and tax-saving opportunities; we scour them. We understand the complex environments in which our clients operate. We understand the unique provisions of the tax codes in the jurisdictions where they conduct business. We stay current with the latest rulings and changes in tax law as they apply to our clients’ businesses. And our efforts translate into significant tax savings and superior results for our clients. Simply put, our commitment to excellence and utilization of sophisticated technology ensure that we’re more thorough, efficient, and effective than our competitors.
Ryan professionals target every possible tax refund and reduction opportunity for our clients. We commit every day to sifting through, drilling down, and peeling back the intricacies of federal, state, local and international tax to discover truly significant recovery opportunities. And we focus on reducing our clients’ tax liabilities with minimum disruption to their operations, requiring only limited effort from their personnel.
State Audit Representation Services
Ryan manages the audit process from beginning to end, ensuring that we minimize our client’s burden to the fullest extent possible. Our professionals handle the arduous process of producing records for the state and securing files required to build the case, determining which issues merit an appeal and the likelihood of success for each. We manage the day-to-day information flow between our client and the taxing authority to ensure timely, complete, and accurate responses and assist with accelerated dispute resolution processes to reduce the costs and other burdens associated with audit defense activities. As needed, we meet with auditors, dispute resolution officers, administrative hearings attorneys, and other agents to clearly identify all positions that impact our client’s ability to achieve a favorable outcome. From informal conferences to administrative level appeals, our goal is to resolve tax controversies quickly and professionally. And when disputes can’t be resolved through simple negotiation, we’re prepared to fight for our clients’ interests for as long as it takes.
Services Provided
Ryan represents our clients’ interests during tax audits to ensure they pay only their fair share of taxes. Our Audit Representation provides a comprehensive range of services, including:
- Audit coordination
- Audit review and opportunity assessment
- Audit sampling analysis and evaluation
- Controversies and appeals
- Responses for information and document requests
- Risk assessments
- Tax audit representation
- Tax compliance and reporting evaluation
- Taxability determinations
- Voluntary disclosure and registration
State Tax Compliance Services
Ryan’s Tax Compliance professionals provide a breadth of expertise in tax administration and process improvement to help clients effectively manage their compliance processes and focus on a broader strategic vision for total tax performance. Functioning as an extension of our client’s tax department, we offer a full suite of compliance and automation solutions that streamline internal tax operations, including managing costs and employee resources, eliminating manual processes, minimizing overpayments and errors on returns, and reducing risk and the likelihood of notices and penalties.
Strategic Tax Planning Services
Ryan’s Strategic Tax Planning services focus on our client’s overall tax performance, creating greater opportunities to measure and improve efficiency, develop a more strategic approach to tax, and deliver outstanding shareholder value. Through benchmarking current performance, identifying best practices in relation to peer and historical performance, and measuring the delta between reality and the potential of our client’s tax department, Ryan provides a clear strategic plan for transforming the tax function into a Tax Competency Center.
Ryan professionals help our clients plan and implement processes and technologies that improve the efficiency and effectiveness of their tax operations. We assess tax positions and develop strategic plans that include transaction structuring, business reorganization, and alternative filing positions. And we ensure that the efforts of our clients' tax departments are positively impacting the overall strategic objectives of their organizations.
Services Provided
Ryan leverages years of experience and best practices to help our clients design and implement proven planning strategies for mitigating risk, minimizing tax liabilities, and improving efficiency and effectiveness through a suite of services, including:
- Alternative filing positions
- Business reorganization
- Risk mitigation planning
- Strategic business planning
- Tax automation
- Total performance assessments
- Transaction structuring
- Workflow assessments and solutions
Tax Research Services
Ryan’s Tax Research services cut through complicated and constantly changing state and local tax rules to uncover the issues that truly matter to our clients. Our researchers not only analyze the law, they evaluate and verify individual circumstances to apply the law to each possible scenario.
Our seasoned professionals are well versed in preparing tax matrices for all types of industries, writing opinion letters on the tax consequences of complex and unusual transactions, preparing requests for administrative rulings on intricate issues, determining nexus and filing requirements, and reviewing specific transactions to ensure that our tax decision solutions are accurate and consistent. Additionally, we provide research and update services to the taxability matrices we develop.
Services Provided
Ryan has an experienced team of professionals that research complex and evolving tax issues, legislation, and developments to identify and address the potential tax implications of multi-jurisdictional operations. Our Tax Research services include:
- Nexus determinations and filing requirements
- Opinion letters
- Requests for administrative rulings
- System configurations
- Tax matrices
- Training
Revenue Agent’s Report (RAR) Services
The federal Revenue Agent’s Report (RAR) provides an excellent opportunity for companies to evaluate their past state and local tax returns for overpayments and missed credit opportunities. Ryan’s RAR compliance services help clients overcome the compliance requirements and administrative challenges associated with RAR compliance. Our seasoned income tax compliance professionals accurately amend state and local income tax filings to address jurisdictional requirements. We examine our client’s federal audit reports to proactively identify opportunities to minimize their tax liabilities, and we ensure that all returns are statutorily accurate and include the necessary forms and documentation required by the taxing jurisdiction. Leveraging tax preparation software, Ryan provides return preparation services to produce thorough, timely, and accurate filings. We handle all the administrative aspects related to the filings to ensure a smooth and seamless process for our clients. Our team provides added value and expertise by sharing knowledge and best practices for total tax performance.
Business, Professional, and Occupational License (BPOL) Tax
In the Commonwealth of Virginia, more than 100 municipalities subject business owners to a Business, Professional, and Occupational License (BPOL) tax for the privilege of doing business within their borders. The BPOL tax is assessed at the county level, and for many, is their primary source of revenue.
The BPOL tax is imposed on a taxpayer’s gross receipts earned from business services that occur within the municipality, even if that business is in a tax or financial statement loss. Business services subject to BPOL tax include engineering, legal, accounting, data processing, advertising, medical, computer repair, and cleaning services, among others. It is not uncommon to find that companies are overpaying their BPOL taxes by as much as 50%.
Ryan’s experienced team of state and local tax professionals work with clients to review their BPOL tax liabilities to ensure that they are correctly calculated. In many instances, we find that our clients have overpaid their BPOL tax and are entitled to refunds and lower tax payments in the future.
Ryan Expertise
Ryan has provided us with an outstanding return on investment through a wealth of tax services including income and franchise, sales and use, and controversies and appeals.
News & Insights
News & Insights
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News Mention Sep 11, 2024
Berkshire Tax Case Lays Path for Other States to Follow Nebraska
Joseph Schmidt, Director, State Income/Franchise Tax Consulting, quoted in Bloomberg article published ...
Integrated End-to-End Tax Services
Ryan is focused on your overall tax performance, providing innovative solutions to the underlying causes of the errors we identify and creating greater opportunities to measure and improve your efficiency, develop a more strategic approach to tax, and deliver outstanding value to your shareholders.