{"id":2031,"date":"2025-03-24T15:34:18","date_gmt":"2025-03-24T15:34:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gtmtax.com\/insight\/webinar-recap-get-your-hands-off-sales-tax\/"},"modified":"2025-07-23T20:03:06","modified_gmt":"2025-07-23T20:03:06","slug":"webinar-recap-get-your-hands-off-sales-tax","status":"publish","type":"insight","link":"https:\/\/gtmtax.com\/insight\/webinar-recap-get-your-hands-off-sales-tax\/","title":{"rendered":"Webinar Recap: Get Your Hands Off Sales Tax"},"content":{"rendered":"
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On March 13, 2025, GTM hosted an insightful webinar titled “Get Your Hands Off Sales Tax,”<\/a> featuring Jim Ford and Dave Hillegass, both Managing Directors of GTM’s State & Local Tax Practice. Both very familiar with the time-consuming and data-intensive nature of sales and use tax compliance, Jim and Dave walked through various approaches companies can take to streamline this critical process.<\/p>\n

The monthly sales tax compliance cycle presents significant challenges for tax departments. They must quickly compile, reconcile, and transform sales and procurement data from multiple sources, then prepare returns, cut checks, and execute payments \u2014 all within a tight timeframe of just a few days.<\/p>\n

With thousands of taxing jurisdictions across the United States and changing tax laws emerging each year, the complexity of compliance continues to grow. Add in the need for transaction-level detail and variations in reporting requirements, and it’s clear why many organizations are seeking more efficient approaches to manage this statutory requirement.<\/p>\n

How tech can help<\/h2>\n

We don\u2019t have to tell sales tax compliance professionals that the tech landscape is complex these days. There are two types of technology tax professionals can take advantage of:<\/p>\n