CensusAudit
Every transaction. Not a sample.
Sales and use tax audit that examines every transaction and every line of a return against the controlling statute — with the citation attached.
100% Navy Veteran-Owned
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A census examines the entire population. There is nothing to project, because nothing was estimated. The assessment rests on the statute, not on a sample that happened to run hot or cold.
“Small per-item errors propagated from a sample period to the entire audit period” — and the assessment fell.
New Jersey Tax Court, Gatta v. Director, Dkt. No. 000014-2014 (Apr. 16, 2018) — invalidating a sales-tax sample assessment. A court has already invalidated a sales-tax sample on exactly the ground this company removes as a variable.- For state revenue agencies
- Ingest the electronic records your auditors already request. Every transaction resolved to jurisdiction and taxability, cited to the controlling authority, exported into the workpapers your auditors already file into GenTax, TaxMaster, or whatever case-management system your state runs.
- Defensibility
- An auditor is never asked which sample they drew. They are asked what the law says. That is the question a census answers — line by line, on the record, with the citation attached.
- Why now
- State sampling manuals target a 75–80% confidence level — which means the state’s own methodology accepts being wrong 20–25% of the time by design. Assessments evaporate on appeal: 40–49% of assessed dollars cut in Connecticut’s four-year sample. Auditor vacancy rates of 11–16% and rising. A census costs less to defend and captures what a sample misses.
- Provenance
- Founded by Rory Rawlings, Navy veteran and the inventor of AvaTax — who architected the engine much of this industry still runs on, and who knows precisely where its method breaks.
- Status
- Active. If you administer tax for a state and want to see a census run beside your own sampling method on the same data, that conversation is open now — rory@censusaudit.com.
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If you administer tax for a state, the fastest way to evaluate this is to run a census beside your own sample on the same data. The delta tells you whether it matters — in 30 minutes, without a procurement.
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