Capability Statement
For state revenue agencies evaluating census-based audit methodology.
- Company
- CensusAudit
- Business status
- 100% Navy veteran-owned small business
- Classification
- NAICS 541219 (Other Accounting Services) / 541511 (Custom Computer Programming Services)
- UEI / CAGE
- Registration in process (expected Q3 2026). Available upon completion.
- Website
- censusaudit.com
- Contact
- rory@censusaudit.com
- Address
- [Available upon request — contact for details]
- Phone
- (512) [NUMBER]
Core capability
CensusAudit provides a census-based audit methodology — examining every transaction and every return line against the controlling statute, with the citation attached — that replaces the statistical sample-and-project method states use today for sales and use tax examinations. The engine is the same calculation pipeline that powers SALTklaw: every transaction’s product taxability is determined by reading the originating statute, regulation, and court decision directly, not by mapping to a harmonized tax code. The calculation is deterministic: same product, same statute, same answer, every time.
What we do
Ingest taxpayer extracts
Flat file, CSV, Excel — the e-audit formats your state already requests. General ledger, sales journals, purchase detail, exemption certificates. No new collection process required.
Resolve every address to the parcel
Each transaction address is resolved to the actual cadastral parcel — not a ZIP code, not a rooftop centroid. The parcel polygon is tested against the jurisdiction boundary to determine whether the transaction falls inside, outside, or across a taxing jurisdiction. This is the patent-pending invention that makes a census audit practical.
Census determination
With jurisdiction resolved to the parcel and statute applied at the line level, every transaction receives a deterministic taxability determination with the controlling citation attached. Nothing projected, nothing extrapolated — every line stands on its own.
Auditor workpaper export
Output into the formats your auditors already file into GenTax/TaxMaster — whatever case-management system your state runs.
Sampling comparison
Run your state’s own sample method beside the census on identical data. The delta is the honest measure of whether the methodology matters — and it is the demo that sells the approach.
Also: parcel boundary data
In addition to audit services, CensusAudit provides parcel-accurate jurisdiction boundary tables — the same data produced by the patent-pending parcel spine. Every cadastral parcel polygon tested against every jurisdiction boundary polygon, producing a deterministic in/out/bisected answer for every address in the state.
These tables can be licensed by state revenue agencies to improve their own jurisdiction assignment, or by sales tax providers to replace ZIP-code-based approximation with parcel-level accuracy. The same engine that powers the audit also produces the data that makes the audit unnecessary.
Differentiators
| Incumbent approach | CensusAudit |
|---|---|
| Statistical sample (75–80% confidence) | Census of every transaction |
| Error rate projected across the period | Nothing to project — every line stands on its own |
| Auditor defends the sample method | Auditor cites the statute — line by line |
| Sample methodology appealable (Gatta, NJ 2018) | Designed so a Gatta challenge never arises |
| Requires GenTax/TaxMaster integration | Reads the extract; exports workpapers. No integration needed. |
Data governance
Structural separation
CensusAudit and SALTklaw maintain no shared customer data. No seller’s transaction data can reach a state through a sister company. The separation is structural, not aspirational — separate databases, separate access controls, separate retention policies. Stated publicly so every seller and every state can verify it independently.
Data handling
Taxpayer extracts are processed in isolated environments. Data is encrypted in transit and at rest. Extracts are retained only for the duration of the engagement and purged upon completion. Access is logged and limited to the personnel performing the analysis. We will execute your state’s data protection agreement and comply with your state’s equivalent of IRC 6103 confidentiality requirements.
Provenance
Founded by Rory Rawlings, Navy veteran and the inventor of AvaTax — who architected the original sales-tax automation engine and knows precisely where its method breaks. In 2005, the best available technology was point-in-polygon: drop a centroid into a ZIP code and hope it lands on the right side of the jurisdiction line. It was the right trade for the time. It is not the right trade for an audit.
Mr. Rawlings’ patent-pending invention addresses both halves of the accuracy problem. The first part replaces point-in-polygon approximation with a parcel spine: every address resolved to the actual cadastral parcel, the parcel polygon tested against the jurisdiction boundary polygon to determine whether the transaction falls inside, outside, or across the line — making jurisdiction assignment deterministic rather than probabilistic.
The second part is a consistent classification system that reads the controlling statute, regulation, and court decision directly to determine product taxability — yielding the same answer for the same product and the same law, every time, with the citation attached. Together, these two capabilities make a census audit practical: when both jurisdiction and taxability are deterministic, there is nothing to sample and nothing to project.
CensusAudit applies that same parcel spine to the state-audit side. Every transaction address from the taxpayer extract is resolved to a parcel, the parcel is intersected with the jurisdiction boundary, and the statute is applied with the citation attached. The state auditor gets not just a finding — a parcel, a polygon, a rate, a statute, and a citation. Defensible at every level.
Patent pending. Navy veteran. Built on SALTklaw’s parcel spine.
Pilot beneath your state’s competition threshold
A first engagement priced beneath the formal competition trigger can often begin with no solicitation at all. We design the pilot to your state’s threshold.
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