Sales Tax Filings

Accurate and timely sales tax filings are critical to maintaining compliance and minimizing audit risk across multiple jurisdictions. Insight Tax Advisors manages the full sales tax filing lifecycle, ensuring returns are prepared correctly, filed on time, and supported with clear documentation.

Our team prepares monthly, quarterly, or annual sales tax returns as required by each jurisdiction. We provide draft returns and payment summaries for client review and approval, submit approved returns, and facilitate tax payments on your behalf. After filing, we deliver confirmations and reconciliation reports to support recordkeeping and audit readiness.

By centralizing the filing process and maintaining consistent oversight, Insight helps businesses reduce risk, avoid penalties, and free internal teams from administrative burden.

Nexus Monitoring

Sales tax nexus rules continue to evolve, creating ongoing compliance risk for growing and acquisitive businesses. Insight Tax Advisors provides proactive nexus monitoring to help companies identify new filing obligations before they become liabilities.

We analyze sales activity, business operations, and jurisdictional thresholds to determine when economic or physical nexus has been triggered. Our team monitors changes in sales patterns, expansion activity, and regulatory developments to identify when additional registrations may be required.

This ongoing monitoring allows businesses to address exposure early, avoid unplanned assessments, and maintain compliance as operations scale across states.

Exemption Certificate Management

Managing exemption certificates is a critical but often overlooked component of sales tax compliance. Improper or missing certificates can significantly increase audit exposure and assessment risk.

Insight Tax Advisors supports the full exemption certificate lifecycle, including gathering, reviewing, validating, and maintaining certificates across jurisdictions. We review certificates for accuracy and completeness, confirm proper exemption application, and help organize documentation in an audit-ready format.

Our process helps reduce risk during audits, ensures exemptions are properly supported, and strengthens overall compliance controls.

Ongoing Compliance Support

Sales tax compliance is not a one-time exercise. It requires consistent oversight, communication, and adaptation as regulations and business operations change.

Insight provides ongoing compliance support through proactive monitoring, monthly check-ins, and issue resolution. Our team tracks filing deadlines, monitors jurisdictional rule changes, and advises on best practices for maintaining compliant records and processes.

This ongoing support ensures compliance remains aligned with your business operations and reduces the likelihood of surprises during audits or transactions.

Sales Tax Registrations & Account Setup

Proper registration is the foundation of compliant sales tax reporting. Insight Tax Advisors manages sales tax registrations across state and local jurisdictions once nexus has been established.

We collect required business information, prepare and submit registration forms, establish state portal logins, and integrate new jurisdictions into the ongoing compliance calendar. Our team follows through until registrations are approved and active.

This structured approach ensures businesses are registered correctly, on time, and positioned for accurate filing from day one.

Notice & Correspondence Management

State and local tax notices can be time-consuming and disruptive if not addressed promptly and correctly. Insight Tax Advisors manages sales tax notices and correspondence on your behalf to reduce internal burden and prevent escalation.

We review notices, identify required responses, coordinate with jurisdictions, and resolve routine compliance matters. When necessary, we work directly with auditors or state representatives to address issues efficiently and accurately.

Our involvement ensures correspondence is handled by experienced professionals and that responses align with your broader compliance strategy.

Compliance Process Optimization

Inefficient sales tax processes increase risk, consume internal resources, and create challenges during audits and transactions. Insight Tax Advisors helps businesses design and optimize sales tax compliance processes to support accuracy, consistency, and scalability.

We review existing workflows, data sources, approval procedures, and reporting methodologies to identify gaps or inefficiencies. Our team provides practical recommendations to improve documentation, streamline filings, and enhance audit readiness.

Optimized processes reduce errors, improve visibility, and support long-term compliance as businesses grow.

Sales Tax Technology Support

Technology plays a critical role in modern sales tax compliance, but only when systems are configured correctly and maintained over time. Insight Tax Advisors supports sales tax technology implementation, integration, and ongoing optimization.

We work alongside your tax engine provider to validate taxability mappings, test calculations, confirm rate accuracy, and align system outputs with filing requirements. Our team reviews transaction data to identify gaps or inconsistencies and ensures technology supports compliant reporting.

This hands-on approach helps businesses leverage automation while maintaining confidence in their sales tax data.

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STEVEN SCARBOROUGH, CMA

Title: Managing Director
Location: Fort Worth, Texas
Practice: Sales Tax Compliance

Background:
Steven Scarborough brings more than 15 years of strategic leadership in sales and use tax compliance, helping businesses navigate complex multistate regulations and achieve lasting, enterprise-level results. His experience spans organizations of all sizes, from early-stage companies to established market leaders, with a focus on improving processes, reducing tax exposure, and embedding tax considerations into daily operations.

With broad industry experience and deeper specialization in energy, technology, manufacturing, and retail, Steven delivers solutions aligned with each client’s operational reality. As a former State and Local Tax Partner at a national firm, he led dozens of compliance improvement initiatives and earned a reputation for making sales tax compliance straightforward and effective.

Known for his clarity and calm leadership style, Steven builds trust through honest insight and practical strategies that help businesses remain compliant and prepared for what’s next.

Education:

• B.B.A., Texas Christian University

Memberships & Certifications:

• Certified Management Accountant (CMA)

Email: sscarborough@insighttaxadvisors.com
Phone: (817) 851-7839

ANNETTE GIOIA

Title: Managing Director
Location: Houston, Texas
Practice: Sales Tax Compliance

Background:
Annette Gioia brings 18 years of specialized experience in sales tax compliance, helping businesses confidently navigate and simplify complex multistate tax obligations. Her primary expertise includes SaaS, e-commerce, retail, and wholesale, with additional experience in oil and gas, manufacturing, telecommunications, and construction.

As a proven leader, Annette has built and managed high-performing compliance departments, developing streamlined processes and procedures that ensure accuracy, consistency, and audit readiness.

Her hands-on experience includes designing and optimizing complete sales and use tax operations, managing business registrations and multistate filings, mastering complex sales data across multiple platforms and systems, and delivering customized, proactive compliance strategies tailored to each client’s unique needs.

With a sharp eye for detail and a strong commitment to proactive problem-solving, Annette helps businesses of all sizes achieve lasting compliance success and peace of mind.

Email: agioia@insighttaxadvisors.com