Audit Defense
Who's Defending your dollars?
Tax audits are stressful. But they don’t have to result in overstated assessments or unnecessary penalties.
If your company has been selected for a local sales and use tax audit, is your team ready to:
- Conduct a pre-audit risk assessment?
- Review audit schedules?
- Challenge taxability?
- Negotiate with auditors?
- Mitigate penalties and interest?
CPRS can help. We step in as your advocate, leveraging more than a century of state tax auditor experience to defend your position, minimize exposure, and protect your bottom line.
From reviewing audit schedules to challenging taxability determinations, CPRS knows how to navigate state and local tax audits with precision and confidence.
Let’s make sure the final assessment reflects only what’s truly owed—nothing more.
How It Works
With CPRS, your Audit Defense engagement follows a proven approach to support your team and reduce risk.
We analyze audit schedules to validate the auditor’s methodology and uncover calculation errors, inflated projections, or misapplied tax rules.
We conduct thorough research and partner with your team and vendors to source missing or alternative documentation.
Using both published and unpublished guidance, we build and present strong arguments to challenge audit findings—often using contracts, tax matrix support, or exemption logic to support your case.
We engage directly with auditors on your behalf to ensure transactions are properly categorized and that your tax position is fairly represented.
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Why CPRS?
We’ve helped companies across industries reduce assessments, avoid penalties, and even walk away with net-positive outcomes.
Our team has deep insight into how state audits work—because we’ve been on the other side — for a combined 115+ years. That insider knowledge, paired with our collaborative approach and relentless attention to detail, helps clients achieve audit results that are fair and defensible.
When you work with CPRS, you don’t just get tax advisors—you gain experienced defenders who are in it with you, start to finish.
Additional Value-Added Services
- Pre-audit Risk Assessment
- Auditor Negotiation Support
- Penalty & Interest Mitigation
At CPRS, we are here to minimize the burden, reduce the assessment, and protect your financial interests—with every audit.
Let's Chat.
Our CPRS team is ready to roll up our sleeves and work with your team to find answers on your next project.
