If you owe back Florida sales tax make sure you take care of this liability as soon as you can. At the very least, contact us to find out the different options that are available to resolve your situation so Florida sales tax does not follow up with seizure enforcement.
Seizure enforcement can include frozen bank accounts, the filing of tax warrants or the seizure and loss of your business.
The State of Florida, Sales Tax, new tax policies and systems can more readily find your assets. They are now basing some of there collection techniques on predictive behavior models.
Predictive Analytics by the Department of Revenue
Predictive analytics encompasses a variety of techniques from statistics, modeling, machine learning, and data mining that analyze current and historical facts to make predictions about future, or otherwise unknown, events.
In business, predictive models exploit patterns found in historical and transactional data to identify risks and opportunities. Models capture relationships among many factors to allow assessment of risk or potential associated with a particular set of conditions, guiding decision making for candidate transactions.
What this really means is a department of revenue, state of Florida is now in the tracking business and is letting modern technology find out where you bank and your financial patterns. And if you all money to the state of Florida, Department of revenue beware there are collecting there money faster.
Florida Sales Tax Back Tax – Revenue to Use New Tax Collection System
The Department of Revenue, State of Florida will partly switch to a collection analytics system in early April.
It will allow the State of Florida Sales Tax Division to better focus their tax collection efforts to determine positive future tax payment outcomes, based on predictive behavioral models.
Now the system is automated and without hesitation or sympathy for the taxpayer – usually after 90 days of delinquency.
The data used by the new Collection Analytics system can come from a variety of source such as:
- the state unemployment tax returns,
- tracking that there may be an additional company,
- bank accounts used for payroll,
- checking with other government agencies
This mean much quicker enforcement for Florida Sales Tax
The Department of revenue system could now use this data to file a lien/warrant on the on the same day funds normally come into the account.
It is extremely important for taxpayers to respond promptly to bills and delinquency notices from the Department.
This new system of Collection Analytics should have no impact on taxpayers who file and remit their full amount of taxes on time.
Owe Florida Sales Tax, your name will be published
The Florida Department of Revenue is authorized by law to publish a list of the names of taxpayers who have large unresolved tax liabilities. These taxpayers have failed to pay or arrange to pay their debt, despite repeated attempts by the Department to collect the amount due.
The names were selected according to the following criteria:
- Taxpayers who have unsatisfied tax warrants or liens totaling $100,000 or more, and
- In counties where no taxpayer has warrants or liens totaling $100,000, the two taxpayers with the highest amount of warrants or liens are included.
- Taxpayers who are in bankruptcy, who have entered into and are current on a stipulated payment agreement, or who have in place a payment agreement with the Department, are excluded.
Place of Filing of a Warrant/Lien for Florida Sales Tax Division
The warrant or lien is a public record filed with the Clerk of Court or other government office in the county where the taxpayer is located. The list is published according to section 213.053(19), Florida Statutes. Unauthorized use of this information is prohibited by Florida law. For more details, read our privacy notice.
The list will be updated every 30 days. The current list was posted on August 9, 2013.
If your name or business name appears on the list and you want to resolve your tax liability, contact your local Department of Revenue service center.
You must do one of the following:
1. Pay the amount in full.
2. Enter a stipulated payment agreement.
3. Provide information to prove the amount on the warrant is not due.
If you are dealing with any issues or Florida sales tax issues, contact us today and speak directly tax attorneys, tax lawyers, or a former Florida Sales tax agent.
Our firm has well over 300 years professional tax experience and have an A+ rating with the better business bureau and have been in private practice since 1982.
