We price by the return, the state, and the engagement, not by how much tax passes through us. A return on $2M of sales takes the same work as one on $200K, so your fee doesn’t climb just because you had a good year.
Where a price says ‘starting at,’ we’ll confirm your number on the first call, before any work begins.
Talk to an expert about where you actually stand. We’ll tell you what you need, in what order — and if you don’t need us yet, we’ll say that too.
Where you’ve triggered nexus, on what date, and what open liability you’re carrying — across all 50 states.
Monthly compliance, off your desk. We reconcile before anything is filed, so we’re checking the number rather than submitting whatever your system produced.
Any state or local jurisdiction in the United States or Canada, including the ones that want a bond or an in-state responsible party. State fees passed through at cost.
We file the VDA on your behalf and carry it through to signed — capped lookback, penalties waived.
Taxable or exempt, state by state, for everything you sell. The detailed version cites the statute behind every answer, so it holds up in an audit; the plain version skips them. All 50 states, or only the ones you sell in.
See taxability research →We step in at any point — a first notice, or a case you can’t carry alone anymore. Fees depend on the engagement, but they’re often a percentage of the reduction we achieve: cut a $400,000 assessment and our fee comes out of that saving.
See audit defense →We don’t warehouse your certificates ourselves — we license the platform that fits your systems and set it up around them. What you’re paying for is knowing which one suits your stack and where you’re heading.
See certificate management →Selection, implementation, and configuration audits across Avalara, Vertex, and TaxJar. We’ll tell you honestly which tool fits, or that you don’t need one yet.
See automation advisory →Buy side or sell side. Tell us the deadline and we’ll tell you what fits inside it — including what we can quantify against escrow before signing.
See due diligence →We find sales tax you paid but never owed and file to get it back. If there isn’t enough there to be worth it, we’ll tell you rather than bill you to find out.
See overpayment recovery →Most businesses need two or three of these, in a particular order. Filing before you’ve resolved the back period is how you tell a state where to look.
Until you know the footprint and the liability, every other decision is a guess with a price tag attached. The analysis makes the rest of this list concrete.
“I’ve only worked with you all for a few months, but the team at TSTP have made an area that is daunting for a non-American extremely simple. You’ve taken all the stress out of the process. If I’m ever in need of assistance with Sales Tax in the future I’ll be coming your way.”
We’ve been doing this since 1992. Here’s what stays off our invoices.
What you sold last quarter has nothing to do with how long the return takes to prepare. Tie the fee to volume and a good year costs you twice for the same work.
States write to you. Handling that correspondence is part of monthly compliance, not a billable event each time an envelope arrives.
We recommend software only when it fits your systems, and we’ll tell you when you don’t need it yet.
If the scope changes, we’ll tell you before we do the work and put the new price in writing first.
A rate card only means something if the people behind it know the work. We’ve been simplifying sales tax since 1992, with 1M+ sales tax returns filed.
The first call is with one of them, not a sales rep, and it costs nothing.
If you don’t know where you stand, a nexus risk analysis — everything else is a guess until that’s answered. If you know and filing is the problem, go straight to the return service. If a state has already written to you, audit defense today; there’s usually a deadline running.
Monthly compliance is an ongoing engagement you can end. One-time work — an analysis, a registration, a VDA — is exactly that.
A registration is a form. A voluntary disclosure is a negotiation with a state, an anonymous approach, a reconstructed liability calculation for the back period, and the filings that close it out. It’s priced per jurisdiction because each one is a separate agreement.
Regularly. We take the sales and use tax work alongside you rather than in place of you, and we’re comfortable staying in the background.
That’s the common case — an analysis leads to registrations, VDAs, and then monthly filing. We’ll put the whole sequence in one quote, in the order it needs to happen, so nothing gets filed before it should.
Where you sell, where you’re registered, and what prompted you to look. That’s usually enough for a real number on the first call — which is free.
