by Fresh Start Tax | Sep 13, 2013 | Tax Help
Settle your Tax Debt for Pennies on a Dollar
You should know that it is very possible to settle your tax debt for pennies on a dollar but you must qualify for the tax debt settlement program called the offer in compromise.
The IRS statistics for this past year has shown that 38% of all offers in compromise/ tax debt settlement filed with the Internal Revenue Service are excepted.
Most of the offers in compromise that are not accepted never should’ve been filed or were not filed by qualified professionals. It is critical you know the program before you make an attempt to settle your tax debt.
IRS receives around 48,000 offers in compromise per year. From what I’ve been told by IRS agents who have worked the offer compromise tax settlement program this year, that the average settlement is $.14 on the dollar. That is a statistical average.
Every case that is worked by the IRS is based on its own merit and its own set of facts.
Not everybody is a qualified candidate for a tax debt settlement program.
You can settle your tax debt for pennies on a dollar but you must meet very specific criteria.
I should know.
I am the former IRS agent in teaching instructor and taught the IRS offer in compromise program while employed by the Internal Revenue Service.
There are strict standards to get your offer in compromise accepted by the Internal Revenue Service to settle your tax debt.
Before you go running off paying a tax firm or Internet company to settle your debt for pennies on a dollar you must be completely aware of the standard that IRS has for settlement. Call us today for no cost and we will review your specific situation.
The standard for acceptance of a tax debt settlement
The standard for acceptance is simply this, you must give IRS the total value of all your assets plus the Internal Revenue Service will compare your monthly income and expenses against the regional, national income and expense standards.
If there is any money left over at the end of the month they use a 12 multiplier. IRS simply adds up the total value of all your assets plus the 12 multiplier figure and that is the sum total of your offer in compromise.
The Internal Revenue Service will not accept anything less. That is why timing is important before filing an offer in compromise to settle your tax debt. You want to know the positives and the negatives about your case.
To make sure taxpayers know about offers in compromise or the tax debt settlement program IRS last year came out with the pre-qualifier tool so taxpayers do not get ripped off by Internet companies who claim everybody can settle their case for pennies on the dollar.
You will find that the IRS has a pre-qualifier tool and you can find on our website.
You can contact us today to find out if you qualify for an offer in compromise. We will not take any money on any client unless we feel they are qualified to file an offer in compromise. We can usually make that determination within a five-minute period time.
Before you choose a firm to settle your IRS tax debt make sure you check the Better Business Bureau rating, ask to speak directly to the person working your case, and make sure they have qualified tax professionals on staff. Also you should ask them based on a similar set of facts what results were received or gotten.
I would make sure on staff you will find either a tax attorney, certified public accountant, enrolled agent, or former IRS agent that you can speak directly to. Most firms employ sales closers to qualify taxpayers to make sure they can pay the company before they even file the offer.
The reality should be that they carefully review your case and let you know your chances of success. Do not get sucked up into a company that will not review your financial statement first and let you know your chances of success.
The IRS Offer in Compromise/ Settle your Tax Debt
An offer in compromise allows you to settle your tax debt for less than the full amount you owe. It may be a legitimate option if you can’t pay your full tax liability, or doing so creates a financial hardship.
The IRS will consider your unique set of facts and circumstances and everyone’s case is different. IRS will take into account your:
1. Ability to pay;
2. Income;
3. Expenses; and
4. Asset equity.
The IRS generally approve an offer in compromise when the amount offered represents the most we can expect to collect within a reasonable period of time.
The IRS will explore all other payment options before submitting an offer in compromise. The Offer in Compromise program is not for everyone.
If you hire a tax professional to help you file an offer, be sure to check his or her qualifications.
Make sure you are eligible to settle your tax debt
Before the IRS can consider your offer, you must be current with all filing and payment requirements. You are not eligible if you are in an open bankruptcy proceeding.
Submitting your offer Tax Debt Settlement Offer to the Internal Revenue Service
Your completed offer in compromise tax debt settlement package will include:
1. Form 433-A (OIC) (individuals) or
2. 433-B (OIC) (businesses) and all required documentation as specified on the forms;
Form 656(s) – individual and business tax debt(Corporation/ LLC/ Partnership) must be submitted on separate Form 656;
3. $150 application fee (non-refundable); and
4. Initial payment (non-refundable) for each Form 656.
Selecting a payment option for the IRS to settle your tax debt
Your initial payment will vary based on your offer and the payment option you choose:
- Lump Sum Cash: Submit an initial payment of 20 percent of the total offer amount with your application. Wait for written acceptance, then pay the remaining balance of the offer in five or fewer payments.
- Periodic Payment: Submit your initial payment with your application. Continue to pay the remaining balance in monthly installments while the IRS considers your offer. If accepted, continue to pay monthly until it is paid in full.
If you meet the Low Income Certification guidelines, you do not have to send the application fee or the initial payment and you will not need to make monthly installments during the evaluation of your offer.
Understanding the process to Settle your tax debt with a offer in compromise
While your offer in compromise is being evaluated:
Your non-refundable payments and fees will be applied to the tax liability (you may designate payments to a specific tax year and tax debt);
- A Notice of Federal Tax Lien may be filed;
- Other collection activities are suspended;
- The legal assessment and collection period is extended;
- Make all required payments associated with your offer;
- You are not required to make payments on an existing installment agreement; and
- Your offer is automatically accepted if the IRS does not make a determination within two years of the IRS receipt date.
Contact us today for free initial tax consultation and find out whether you are a qualified candidate for the IRS offer in compromise program otherwise known as IRS settlements.
We have over 60 years of direct work experience with the Internal Revenue Service in the local, district, and regional tax offices of the IRS.
We are a Florida tax from practicing in the state since 1982.
On staff is a former IRS settlement officer who not only worked the IRS offer in compromise program but also for taught the program to new IRS agents.
Settle your Tax Debt – Pennies on a Dollar – Former IRS Settlement Officer
by Fresh Start Tax | Sep 13, 2013 | Tax Help
We are a Florida tax firm that has been practicing since 1982 right here in the state of Florida.
We have an A+ rating by the Better Business Bureau. You may call us for free initial tax consultation and speak directly to an attorney, lawyer, certified public accountant, or former IRS agent.
Our firm has over 206 years of professional IRS and State tax experience and over 60 years of working directly for the Internal Revenue Service in the local, district, and regional tax offices of the IRS.
All our work with the Internal Revenue Service has been in the state of Florida.
We are a tax specialty firm that deals with all IRS business, payroll, corporate and individual tax problems help. From IRS letters and notices to tax court we can handle it all.
Being former IRS employees we are aware of all the IRS protocols, settlement strategies and theories and have a sharp awareness to how to resolve your case and leverage yourself to continue full operation without fear or worry of the Internal Revenue Service. Once we are retained you will never speak to the Internal Revenue Service. We handle all communication and negotiation.
Also on staff is a former state auditor with Department of revenue sales and use tax for the state of Florida. He has over 16 years of direct work experience with the state of Florida.
You can contact us today for free initial tax consultation and speak directly to what specific tax expert who can help your specific need intact problem. The difference between our firm and other firms, we match you directly up to a person that has a specific area of specialty. Call us today and hear the difference tax strategies and tax resolution solutions available to you.
Areas of Professional Tax Practice:
Same Day IRS Tax Representation
Offers in Compromise or IRS Tax Debt Settlements
Immediate Release of IRS Bank Levies or IRS Wage Garnishments
Tax Relief from a IRS Bill, Letter or Notice of “Intent to Levy”
IRS Tax Audits
IRS Hardships Cases or Unable to Pay
Payment Plans, Installment Agreements, Structured agreements
Abatement of Penalties and Interest
State Sales Tax Cases
Payroll / Trust Fund Penalty Cases / 6672
Filing Late, Back, Unfiled Tax Returns
Tax Return Reconstruction if Tax Records are lost or destroyed
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Our Company Resume: ( Since 1982 )
Our staff has collectively over 205 years of Professional IRS Tax Representation Experience
On staff, Board Certified Tax Attorney’s, IRS Tax Lawyers, Certified Public Accountants, Enrolled Agents,
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Former IRS Agents, Managers and Instructors with over 60 years experience in the local, district and regional IRS offices.
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by Fresh Start Tax | Sep 13, 2013 | Tax Help
IRS Business, Payroll, Corporate Tax Problems
Our staff is comprised of tax attorneys, tax lawyers, certified public accountants and former IRS agents, managers and tax instructors.
We have over 206 years of professional tax experience and over 60 years of working directly for the Internal Revenue Service and the local, district, and regional tax offices of the IRS.
We are a tax specialty firm that deals with all IRS business, payroll, corporate and individual tax problems help.
Being former IRS employees, we are aware of all the IRS protocols, settlement strategies and theories and have a sharp awareness to how to resolve your case and leverage yourself to continue full operation without fear or worry of the Internal Revenue Service.
We are A+ rated by the Better Business Bureau and been in private practice since 1982. Besides handling all IRS business, payroll, corporate and individual tax problem help matters, we also are experts in state tax resolution.
We handle all problems from letters all away going through tax court if necessary.
You can contact us today for free initial tax consultation and speak directly to what specific tax expert who can help your specific need intact problem.
Areas of Professional Tax Practice:
- Same Day IRS Tax Representation
- Offers in Compromise or IRS Tax Debt Settlements
- Immediate Release of IRS Bank Levies or IRS Wage Garnishments
- Tax Relief from a IRS Bill, Letter or Notice of “Intent to Levy”
- IRS Tax Audits
- IRS Hardships Cases or Unable to Pay
- Payment Plans, Installment Agreements, Structured agreements
- Abatement of Penalties and Interest
- State Sales Tax Cases
- Payroll / Trust Fund Penalty Cases / 6672
- Filing Late, Back, Unfiled Tax Returns
- Tax Return Reconstruction if Tax Records are lost or destroyed
- IRS Business, Payroll, Corporate – Tax Problems Help
Our Company Resume: ( Since 1982 )
- Our staff has collectively over 205 years of Professional IRS Tax Representation Experience
- On staff, Board Certified Tax Attorney’s, IRS Tax Lawyers, Certified Public Accountants, Enrolled Agents,
- We taught Tax Law in the IRS Regional Training Center
- Former IRS Agents, Managers and Instructors with over 60 years experience in the local, district and regional IRS offices.
- Highest Rating by the Better Business Bureau “A”
- Fast, affordable, and economical
- Licensed and certified to practice in all 50 States
- Nationally Recognized Veteran /Published Former IRS Agent
- Nationally Recognized Published EZINE Tax Expert
- As heard on GRACE 90.3 FM Monthly Radio Show-Business Weekly
We can also file all past due, late, or back tax returns.
If you have unfiled, back, late, or past due tax returns we can get you back in to the IRS system.
We handle any and all IRS Tax Audits.
We are tax experts in Offers in Compromise, Hardships and IRS payment or installment agreements.
We also can get we immediate relief for a IRS tax levy and either bank levy or wage levy garnishments.
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by Fresh Start Tax | Sep 13, 2013 | Tax Help
IRS Help – Received IRS Notice of Levy
The IRS sends out 3.6 million Bank and Wage Levy Garnishments each and every year. They follow these up with 950,000 Federal Tax Liens for those who did not respond to the final IRS notice of appeal for contact.
Let former IRS agents, managers and tax instructors who all know all the IRS protocols stop the IRS. We are a Florida Tax Firm practicing in Florida since 1982.
We are A+ rated by the Better Business Bureau and have been in private practice since 1982.
We have over 206 years of professional tax experience in dealing with the IRS notice of intent to levy.
We not only can stop the IRS levy, we can settle your case at the same time.If you have received a IRS Notice of Levy we can immediately help.
If you did contact IRS by the follow-up date on your last and final notice, the IRS CADE2 computer will automatically generate bank levies or wage garnishments.
Not a human hand touches your levy they are all systemically generated by IRS’s computer.
What is a IRS Notice of Levy that you received ?
A tax levy is a legal seizure of your property to satisfy a tax debt.
Bank Levies and Wage Levies are different from tax liens. The two are often confused.
A federal tax lien is a claim used as security for the tax debt, while a levy actually takes the property to satisfy the tax debt. You may say that a levy is an actual seizure of an asset.
The IRS may seize and sell any type of real or personal property that you own or have an interest in. For instance,
The Internal Revenue Service could seize and sell property that you hold such as your car, boat, or house, could levy property that is yours but is held by someone else such as your wages, retirement accounts, dividends, bank accounts, licenses, rental income, accounts receivables, the cash loan value of your life insurance, or commissions.
Three requirements are met before the Internal Revenue Service can levy.
The Internal Revenue Service must;
1. Send you a Notice and Demand for Payment;
2. You neglected or refused to pay the tax; and
3. IRS sent you a Final Notice of Intent to Levy and Notice of Your Right to A Hearing (levy notice) at least 30 days before the levy.
The IRS must notice you by;
May give you this notice in person, leave it at your home or your usual place of business, or send it to your last known address by certified or registered mail, return receipt requested.
Please note: if we levy your state tax refund, you may receive a Notice of Levy on Your State Tax Refund, Notice of Your Right to Hearing after the levy.
If you call Fresh Start Tax and we determine that you are going through a tax hardship will ask the Internal Revenue Service for immediate release of your notice of levy.
Wage Levies and Garnishments
Employers generally have at least one full pay period after receiving a Form 668-W, Notice of Levy on Wages, Salary and Other Income before they are required to send any funds from their employee’s wages.
Employers should encourage your employees that have a levy placed on their wages to contact the IRS as soon as possible to discuss a release of levy and resolution of their tax liability. As a service to our clients we usually contact the employer to let them know we are in the process of getting a wage levy released.
You can always talk to the IRS Manager
You may ask an IRS manager to review your case, or you may request a Collection Due Process hearing with the Office of Appeals by filing a request for a Collection Due Process hearing with the IRS office listed on your notice.
You must file your request within 30 days of the date on your notice.
Some of the issues you may discuss in appeals include:
1. You paid all you owed before we sent the levy notice,
2. The assessed the tax and sent the levy notice when you were in bankruptcy, and subject to the automatic stay during bankruptcy,
3. The IRS made a procedural error in an assessment,
4. The time to collect the tax (called the statute of limitations) expired before we sent the levy notice,
5. You did not have an opportunity to dispute the assessed liability,
6. You wish to discuss the collection options, or
7. You wish to make a spousal defense.
At the conclusion of your hearing, the Office of Appeals
At the conclusion of your hearing, the Office of Appeals will issue a determination. You will have 30 days after the determination date to bring a suit to contest the determination.
If your property is levied or seized, contact the employee who took the action.
You also may ask the manager to review your case. If the matter is still unresolved, the manager can explain your rights to appeal to the Office of Appeals.
You will have 30 days to respond to the Final IRS Notice/Letter.
Let us call the IRS to stop all enforcement action on you today!
Call us today and we can stop the IRS levy right away. You will never have to speak to the IRS.
Whatever you do, be assertive with the Internal Revenue Service in handling your problem because the problem will not go away by itself.
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by Fresh Start Tax | Sep 12, 2013 | Tax Help
If you have not filed tax returns for multiple or back years we can get you back in the system worry free.
Most people when they have not filed multiple years have a fear about getting back in the system but the reality of this is that the IRS is just happy to have you back paying your taxes again.
There are over 25 million tax returns that are unfiled, past due and many of those taxpayers have never filed a tax return but as a former IRS agent teaching instructor I would tell you that this process is much easier than people think.
The key is finding a skilled tax professional or tax firm to help you through the process of getting your back tax returns filed.
If you cannot pay your back taxes – There are programs for you
If you cannot pay your back taxes the IRS has three different programs to help alleviate some of the fear and pain that goes along with owing back taxes.
IRS will simply ask for a current documented financial statement. IRS will make a determination based on your current financial statement.
The IRS will either place you into a :
- current hardship,
- have you can make installment payments, or
- see whether you are a tax settlement candidate.
IRS will close your case based on one of three above closing methods.
Please keep in mind the IRS will want that detailed financial statement on form 433 f along with copies of bank statements and pay stubs.
The Internal Revenue Service will analyze your financial statement against the national, regional and geographical living standards enter in your area.
When we talk to you as a client, we will work out a short-term and long-term exit strategy so you can completely resolve your tax situation or problem today so you can go on with your life worry free.
We have worked thousands of these cases and we are tax experts for taxpayers who have not filed their back tax returns and working out tax solutions, tax strategies and tax settlements.
By calling our office today we can walk you through the process of getting back in the system worry free so you will never have fear again of the Internal Revenue Service.
You also do not have to worry about IRS taking enforcement action
As soon as we file of our power of attorney, all communication and tax correspondence goes through our office and we can stop any and all enforcement action at IRS will take. Because of our years of experience with the Internal Revenue Service we know all the processes, all the protocols, all the settlement theories and all the realities to get you peace of mind and to go into this process completely worry free.
The process a Fresh Start Tax – Have Not Filed Tax Returns
Filing Back Tax Returns – The process of filing back or unfiled tax returns: (Lost or few tax records )
If you have unfiled tax returns, this process Fresh Start Tax LLC uses to get current with the IRS and get you immediate and permanent tax relief. We will:
1. We verbally review a year by year history of your income and expenses.
2. We review any tax records you may have.
3 We pull all IRS information that they have received from 3rd party sources that have been placed on the IRS computer system over the past 7 years.
4. If you have lost all your records we have easy and simple forms that can help you reconstruct your tax return.
5. We can prepare through years of experience a “reconstructed” tax return that the IRS will accept and process.
6. We review all returns for accuracy with the client and send them into the IRS.
7. We work out a settlement agreement with the IRS to permanently close your tax case.
Some of the Areas of Professional Tax Practice:
- Same Day IRS Tax Representation
- Offers in Compromise or IRS Tax Debt Settlements
- Immediate Release of IRS Bank Levies or IRS Wage Garnishments
- Tax Relief from a IRS Bill, Letter or Notice of “Intent to Levy”
- IRS Tax Audits
- IRS Hardships Cases or Unable to Pay
- Payment Plans, Installment Agreements, Structured agreements
- Abatement of Penalties and Interest
- State Sales Tax Cases
- Payroll / Trust Fund Penalty Cases / 6672
- Filing Late, Back, Unfiled Tax Returns
- Tax Return Reconstruction if Tax Records are lost or destroyed
- IRS Help – Have Not Filed Tax Returns
Our Company Resume: ( Since 1982 )
- Our staff has collectively over 205 years of Professional IRS Tax Representation Experience
- On staff, Board Certified Tax Attorney’s, IRS Tax Lawyers, Certified Public Accountants, Enrolled Agents,
- We taught Tax Law in the IRS Regional Training Center
- Former IRS Agents, Managers and Instructors with over 60 years experience in the local, district and regional IRS offices.
- Highest Rating by the Better Business Bureau “A” plus
- Fast, affordable, and economical
- Licensed and certified to practice in all 50 States
- Nationally Recognized Veteran /Published Former IRS Agent
- Nationally Recognized Published EZINE Tax Expert
- As heard on GRACE 90.3 FM Monthly Radio Show-Business Weekly
Have Not Filed Tax Returns – No Problem, Former IRS can get you back in the system
by Fresh Start Tax | Sep 12, 2013 | Tax Help
Sales Tax Audit Help – Florida Department of Revenue Audit Representation – West Palm
Florida Sales & Use Tax – Manufacturing Industry
If you are going through a sales tax audit contact us today and speak to a tax attorney, CPA, or former state of Florida sales tax agent who could limit your exposure.
We are A+ rated by the Better Business Bureau and have been in practice in the state of Florida since 1982.
Florida passes record $74.5 billion spending budget for fiscal year 2013-2014
Florida passes record $74.5 billion spending budget for fiscal year 2013-2014 that will be more than $4 billion higher than the fiscal year 2012-2013 spending.
Gov. Rick Scott’s office announced plans to discuss cutting taxes and fees with Florida residents. Scott announced he proposes to cut taxes by $500 million for the next fiscal year, but early on in the budget cycle, hasn’t released details about his plans.
Dubbed the “it’s your money’s tour”, Gov. Scott will conduct meetings in West Palm Beach, Fort Lauderdale, Jacksonville, Tampa and Orlando.
With spending increases and cutting taxes there is only one way to balance the budget – Looking for Low Hanging Fruit through an Audit of Your Business.
The manufacturing industry, a major source of audit assessments will see an increase in audit activity to generate funds to cover the increased spending budget and the reduced taxes and fees.
We are a Florida tax firm comprised of tax attorneys, CPAs and a former Florida sales tax auditor that deals with Florida Sales Tax Audits and can help your company during a Sales tax audit.
Being a former State Sales Tax Agent I will explain to you below some of the sales tax audit techniques used by the state of Florida Department of revenue
Florida Sales Tax Audit Manufacturing Industry
Manufacturers Methods of Operation and Accounting Systems
The auditor will focus attention to the method of operation and accounting systems used by a manufacturing concern.
Manufacturing activities are performed for various purposes including, but not limited to:
• the manufacturer of a product for resale, either as a finished product or as a product that is incorporated into a final product
• the manufacture of a product for the manufacturers will use in the manufacturing process
• the fabrication of a product for use by the manufacturer perform a contract to prove real property
• the manufacture of a product for research and development purposes; either for the design of a new product or for new uses of an existing product.
- The auditor will become familiar with your accounting system and an experienced auditor will know that there’s nothing simple about the accounting system within a manufacturing company.
- The auditor knows that they will have to determine whether the accounting system is reliable when evaluating internal controls.
The various parts of the manufacturing process that affect the accounting system are discussed as follows:
• raw materials, also called direct materials
• labor
• indirect costs
• overhead
• inventories
• other sales and purchases
Sales for Resale
Manufactures may produce products for resale that includes finished products ready for sale by a purchaser, either a wholesaler or retailer to the end consumer or they may produce products that are purchased by other manufacturers for the incorporation into a final product sales of tangible personal property by a manufacturer for purposes of resale are exempt from sales tax, provided the transactions are conducted in strict compliance with section212.07 and Section 212.18, F.S. and Rule 12A-1.039, F.A.C. if a manufacturer fails to conduct such transactions in compliance with the referenced authorities he or she will be liable for payment of the tax that was erroneously exempted as well as the applicable penalties and interest.
Sales to Contractors
Sales of tangible personal property by a manufacturer to a real property contract are generally subject to state tax. While the sale of real property is not subject to sales or use tax, tangible personal property purchased by a contractor for conversion into real property is subject to tax.
Taxation is appropriate where the contractor is considered the end-user of the tangible personal property purchased for performance of such contracts. Rule 12A-1.051, F.A.C., discusses in detail sales to or by contractors as well as the types of contracts that they may use.
Sales to Not-For-Profit, Governmental and Other Exempt Entities
Occasionally, a manufacturer will sell tangible personal property to a customer claiming tax exemption as a not for profit organization or governmental entity.
The most common not-for-profit entities are those that fall under Section 501(c) (3), IRC, which include religious, educational and charitable tensions.
Section 212.08(7)(p), F.S. provides a general tax exemption for 501(c)(3) organizations, while Sections 212.08(7)(k),(1),(m)(n)(o) and (p), F.S. provide specific tax exemption for religious, educational and charitable institutions.
Occasional and Isolated Sales
A manufacturer may occasionally sell or transfer tangible personal property that is not within its normal course of business.
An isolated sale or transaction occurs when the manufacture distributes or transfers such tangible personal property in exchange for the surrender of a proportionate interest in an entity or conversely for purposes of obtaining a proportionate interest in an entity.
Provided such transactions meet the requirements of Rule 12A-1.037, F.A.C., they are exempt from tax as isolated or occasional sales or transaction.
In order for manufacturer’s sale to qualify as an exempt occasional sale, the tangible personal property being sold cannot be an item manufactured by the manufacturer for sale or purchased for resale.
Additionally, any applicable tax must have been paid and such sales cannot have occurred more than two times within a 12 month period
Purchases
Fixed Assets
For purposes of day to day operations, manufacturers invest heavily in fixed assets by either leasing or purchasing these assets. Regardless of the method, tax is due on the transactions for the fixed assets unless a specific exemption applies (See Section 212.05, F.S.),.
Items Fabricated for a Manufacturer’s Own Use
A manufacturer may fabricate tangible personal property for its own use in the manufacturing process, including tools, dies, molds, patterns or other items use to produce the final product. Pursuant to Section 212.06(1)(b), F.S., the manufacturer is responsible for paying tax on the cost price of these items which are not sold to consumers.
If the manufacturer sells these items, as required by Section 212.05, F.S., sales tax must be collected on the selling price.
Fabricated cost includes:
• direct materials and related freight and handling
• direct labor costs including payroll burden
• production service costs
Rule 12A-1.043, F.A.C. discusses in detail fabrication costs and other costs related to the manufacturing process.
Items Consumed in the Manufacturing Process
In the course of manufacturing products for sale, manufacturers can sue other items of tangible personal property that may or may not become and ingredient or component of the final product.
Consumption of these items by the manufacturer will generally result in the manufacturer being liable for use tax as the end user of the tangible personal property consumed.
Rule 12A-1.063, F.A.C., discusses the tax consequences of items consumed in a manufacturing process and provides examples of tangible personal property often consumed in a manufacturing process that may or may not be subject to a manufacturer’s use tax.
Sales Tax Audit Help Florida – Manufacturing Industry – Florida – Jacksonville, Tampa, Orlando, Miami
