Buying professional services: Why hire half a tax provider when you can hire a whole one?

from SALTovation: Navigating the Complexities of State and Local Tax by Aprio

In this episode of the SALTovation podcast, Judy Vorndran and Alexander Korzhen, from TaxOps’ SALTovation Team, present the case to hire professional services from proactive tax advisors that can help you stay on top of tax issues. They share why it’s important to work with those that will act in your best interest and not sell you services that you don’t need. What You Will Discover:[00:22] Understanding state and local tax issues[01:51] The importance in picking tax advisors[06:29] How this proactive approach affects compliance[11:05] Why Judy thinks you should pick a good provider Quotables:“Getting taxes wrong, maybe not immediately, but ultimately bites you in the rear end. And it’s typically an expensive bite, which is why we’re squeaking so loud and trying to help as many taxpayers as we can avoid that bite by being proactive.” - Alexander Korzhen [02:46]“Something about our CPA community where we’re a little too general, but you’ve got audits. You’ve got tax. You got IT. You’ve got billing, AR, financial accounting. You’ve got GAAP. You’ve got tax. It’s not all the same animals, so it’s important to kind of acclimate to a group of providers that can really give you best practices in lots of different areas and that’s kind of what we do at TaxOps.” - Judy Vorndran [12:07] Subscribe on your favorite podcast app:https://saltovation.captivate.fm/listenhttps://linktr.ee/taxops Follow Us on Socialshttps://www.linkedin.com/company/taxops-llchttps://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMB1ZQNGXM_F777SIEl8Vjw Talk To A Tax Advocate TodayTaxOps Website: https://taxops.com/contact/Production SupportThis episode was produced with support from Truth Work Media. www.truthworkmedia.comMentioned in this episode:Schedule a Call with the Aprio Team Now!Introductory Call

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In this episode of the SALTovation podcast, Judy Vorndran and Alexander Korzhen, from TaxOps’ SALTovation Team, present the case to hire professional services from proactive tax advisors that can help you stay on top of tax issues. They share why it’s important to work with those that will act in your best interest and not sell you services that you don’t need. What You Will Discover: [00:22] Understanding state and local tax issues [01:51] The importance in picking tax advisors [06:29] How this proactive approach affects compliance [11:05] Why Judy thinks you should pick a good provider Quotables: “Getting taxes wrong, maybe not immediately, but ultimately bites you in the rear end. And it’s typically an expensive bite, which is why we’re squeaking so loud and trying to help as many taxpayers as we can avoid that bite by being proactive.” - Alexander Korzhen [02:46] “Something about our CPA community where we’re a little too general, but you’ve got audits. You’ve got tax. You got IT. You’ve got billing, AR, financial accounting. You’ve got GAAP. You’ve got tax. It’s not all the same animals, so it’s important to kind of acclimate to a group of providers that can really give you best practices in lots of different areas and that’s kind of what we do at TaxOps.” - Judy Vorndran [12:07]