As if our Federal Income and Excise taxes were not complicated enough, businesses in all states have to interpret, file, and pay: Excise Taxes, Enterprise Taxes, Property Taxes, Utility Taxes, Gross Sales Taxes, Sales & Use Taxes, and Income Taxes to mention just a few.

My charge for the last twenty years had been to help businesses pay only the taxes they are liable for. What occurs way too often are businesses paying taxes that they are not aware that they are not liable for.

During the past twenty years I have reviewed accounting records for companies in most of our states and found over paid taxes at each company. The nuances of specific taxes are different for each state, the types of taxes are different in each state, even the tax rates vary by state, city, county, municipality, etc resulting in over 13,000 local taxing district in the US.

It appears to me that Local Taxes have become over complicated and over burdensome. Maybe there is an answer out there.

Maybe we need more people with a knowledge base that can help.

Maybe we need fewer taxes.