Charli Harrell, the CEO and Founder of Solve My Sales Tax, LLC, says that there is much more to the sales tax that is automatically added on to your purchases than meets the eye. “You can think of sales tax as being like a dam,” she explains. “It looks simple enough, but behind it is an entire lake or reservoir that is just waiting to burst forth. That is the United States’ sales tax system: more than 12,000 sales tax jurisdictions all lead up to that one percentage that ends up on your receipt. No wonder our clients come to us so stressed out! They really need our assistance to stay sales-tax compliant, and we enjoy helping them.”
Charli and her team of five dedicated professionals are who you call when you are tired of trying to understand whether your organic chocolate bar has the same sales tax in California as it does in New York. “With thousands of sales tax jurisdictions, it’s easy to see why that one question wouldn’t be so simple to answer,” she states. “After six years in sales tax, I decided to use my experience to found Solve My Sales Tax and take pressure off of companies. We have taken off and been growing ever since.”
Solve My Sales Tax offers a full suite of services that are designed to address the issues that companies most commonly face when working with sales tax.
“A lot of clients struggle with understanding when they have triggered a sales tax nexus,” she says, “so we created our Nexus Analysis to solve this problem. With it, businesses can better understand their sales data and business activity. We have become very good at registering businesses for sales tax in the right jurisdiction, which for most people is a big relief.”
Solve My Sales Tax also routinely sets up an entire streamlined system with the software of its clients’ choice that connects to their POS system and simplifies/automates sales tax compliance.
“It’s all designed to free owners from the aggravation of sales tax compliance so that they can concentrate on running their companies,” says Charli. “They can leave those pesky sales tax details to us.”
Recently, Solve My Sales Tax introduced “One Simple Monthly Price,” which packages the company’s services into easy-to-understand price structures. Charli reveals that this has been very popular, especially with businesses that in the past struggled to forecast how much they would need to spend on sales tax.
“We got rid of the old hourly billing structure, which was ambiguous and hampered companies’ efforts to create accurate budgets,” she states. “Now we have one simple monthly price that our clients can depend on, and that has been very helpful for them.”
She gives an example of a simple price structure that is popular with small businesses. For clients who need sales tax filings in three states and do not use a sales tax software, Solve My Sales Tax charges $375 for three filings and $400 for two hours of consulting each month.
“It also includes free Notice Management and Monthly Nexus Analysis, for a total of $775/month,” she says. “It is one simple monthly price that companies can rely on.”
For companies who wonder about the value of outsourcing their sales tax needs, the average amount that small emerging businesses spend on sales tax compliance is $11,000 each month.
“That is a sizable chunk out of their revenue, but it’s even worse for small-to-mid-sized businesses: $17,000,” says Charli. “Think about how much you have to pay a sales tax accountant. How would you like to save about half of that by outsourcing to us and using sales tax automation software? That’s money you can invest back into your company and grow even further.”
As the United States’ sales tax regulations are legendary, Solve My Sales Tax sees clients from around the world. “It’s one of the benefits of working remotely,” Charli believes. “We can easily pivot and meet the needs of our clients, including accounting firms that use us on a white-label basis. Solve My Sales Tax is very adaptable.”
As sales-tax compliance can smooth the way for a business to operate or for a wrench to be thrown in its gears, Charli is happy that Solve My Sales Tax has already helped so many companies.
“What we are consistently hearing from our customers is that they never knew one little percentage could have such big ramifications for their businesses,” she states. “They like that we are taking that weight off their shoulders and giving them the security of being sales-tax compliant.”
Solve My Sales Tax, founded by CEO Charli Harrell, is helping businesses to navigate the complexities of sales tax in the United States. It specializes in nexus analysis, state registrations, state filings, creation and implementation of streamlined sales tax systems, product taxability determination, notice management and resolution, general sales tax consulting, sales tax for merging and splitting businesses, sales tax audit support, and more.
For more information, please visit https://solvemysalestax.com/.
