We register you in any state or local jurisdiction in the United States or Canada. And where liability has already accrued, we file the voluntary disclosure agreement on your behalf and carry it through to signed — limited lookback, penalties waived.
A registration application asks when your activity in the state began. Answer honestly and you’ve just handed the state a start date for an assessment. Answer otherwise and you have a different problem.
Straightforward. We file the application, deal with the state’s questions, get the account open, and hand you the credentials and the filing frequency they assigned. Five business days on average.
A VDA is a negotiated agreement: you come forward before the state finds you, and in exchange they limit how far back they can reach and waive the penalties. We approach the state anonymously, so nothing is disclosed until the terms are agreed.
Set your exposure in a single state and compare registering and filing back returns against coming forward under a VDA.
Illustrative only. Assumes a 25% combined penalty and 8% annual interest on the register-and-pay path, and a 3-year lookback with penalties waived under the VDA. Terms vary by state and by facts; interest is rarely waived.
A voluntary disclosure isn’t a form you submit and wait on. It’s a negotiation with a state that has every incentive to define the lookback period as widely as possible, and it runs for months. We handle the entire thing on your behalf.
We’ve done this thousands of times across 35+ states. The fee is $5,400 per jurisdiction, flat — four VDAs to file means four times $5,400, with no surprise on the invoice.
Some registrations are a web form. Others require a bond, a background check on your officers, a physical signature, or an in-state responsible party. We’ve done all of them.
Sales and use tax permits, seller’s permits, and the associated business registrations where a state requires one first.
Colorado home-rule cities, Louisiana parishes, and Alabama localities administer their own tax and register separately. These are the ones most often missed.
GST/HST, plus provincial registrations in British Columbia, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, and Quebec.
Flat, per jurisdiction, whatever that jurisdiction happens to require. State fees are separate and passed through at cost.
If you’re new to us, that’s the minimum engagement — in practice, four states or more. We’ll happily file fewer than that; the minimum still applies.
Most businesses arriving here after a nexus analysis have more than four states on the list, so it rarely comes up.
Registration is the middle of a sequence, not the start of one.
Know which states you’re actually required to be in — and what you owe there — before you file anything.
Once you’re registered, someone has to file every month. That’s our flagship service.
If a state got to you before you got to them, a VDA is off the table — but a defense isn’t.
Registrations and voluntary disclosures are both correspondence work: forms that get rejected for small reasons, states that go quiet for weeks, auditors who want one more schedule. Someone has to keep pushing.
That someone is an accountant here, working your states directly and telling you where each one stands.
You can, and if you have no back liability it’s a reasonable thing to do. The risk is the start-date question: registering in a state where you already owe tells them exactly when to begin an assessment. Check the exposure first.
Typically a few months per state, depending on how quickly the state responds and how much back data has to be reconstructed. You aren’t doing the waiting — we manage the correspondence throughout.
No. The tax you should have collected is still owed for the lookback period, and interest usually still applies. What changes is the penalty and how many years back the state can reach — which is generally the larger number.
Voluntary disclosure is generally no longer available in that state once they’ve reached out. Other states on your list are still open, and the contacted state becomes an audit-defense engagement. Call us the day the letter arrives, not the week before the deadline.
Tell us which states are on your list and whether any of them have written to you. We’ll tell you which ones to register and which ones to disclose.
