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Texas House Bill 3572

Are you prepared for the changes that took effect January 1, 2014 due to the passage of House Bill 3572?

Since 1999, Streamline has helped hundreds of restaurants, hotels, and bars navigate Mixed Beverage Audits conducted by the Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts. Knowing how to protect yourself during a Mixed Beverage audit is essential.

Streamline’s Mixed Beverage Audit services are designed to provide you with a solution to minimize your Mixed Beverage audit liabilities. Our tax consultants will work with you by facilitating the entire audit process on your behalf. We can also supplement your in-house tax department professionals by analyzing audit work papers and methodologies applied by the auditor. We are available to assist you at any point during the audit process. Ultimately, Streamline ensures the final audit assessment is fair, accurate, and completed in the most efficient and effective way possible.

Streamline confirms all Mixed Beverage audit assessments are minimized by ensuring the removal of incorrect audit adjustments. Our consultants review the entire audit in detail, ensuring the correct procedures are employed, all contentions are pursued and negotiate with the Comptroller’s office to waive some if not all the penalty and interest.

With your approval, Streamline will pursue unresolved audit issues through all available channels, including the Texas Comptroller’s Independent Audit Review process and the Administrative Hearing process.

With the changes enacted by HB 3572, it’s vitally important that you make the relevant changes to your business to ensure that you are collecting and remitting the right Mixed Beverage Sales Tax as well as the modified Mixed Beverage Gross Receipts Tax. Streamline will work with your staff to improve your tax processes to eliminate future errors and reduce subsequent audit assessments. Streamline’s comprehensive audit representation, defense and reduction services ensure you pay only the legal, minimum tax due.