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State and Local Tax Services (SALT)

KPMG's State and Local Tax (SALT) professionals offer a broad range of state and local tax services to our clients. Our national network continually monitors the legislative, judicial, and regulatory tax landscape to keep our clients abreast of new developments that may affect them.

Our SALT services are organized into the following distinct, but interconnected areas:

Income and Franchise Tax Services

Through a broad array of tax advisory, controversy, and compliance services, our professionals can help clients manage the complexities of nexus, apportionment, tax base, income classification, and filing options. Services include:

  • Income Tax Compliance
  • State Amended Returns
  • Provision Review
  • Apportionment Analysis
  • Controversy Services

U.S. Indirect Tax Services

Well-versed in multi-state issues that affect both U.S.-headquartered and non-U.S.-headquartered companies, our professionals provide a range of services, including:

  • Sales Tax Compliance
  • Recovery of Overpayments
  • State Audit Defense
  • Transaction Tax Systems
  • Exemption Certificate Compliance
  • Voluntary Disclosure Services
  • Sales and Use Tax Outsourcing
  • Indirect and Value-Added Tax (VAT) Services
  • Unclaimed Property Services.

Global Location and Expansion Services (GLES)

KPMG's GLES offers assistance with expansion-based business services including:

  • Site Selection/Location Analysis
  • Business Incentive Negotiation
  • Credit Review
  • Economic Development

Each of these services is delivered nationally and internationally by a diverse group of professionals with extensive state and local market experience and industry knowledge. KPMG professionals can provide services designed to help companies mitigate their start-up and operational costs on both a tax and non-tax basis (e.g., expansion, consolidation, relocation, or research and development).

GLES also offers Green Building Services that can help identify and realize the tax and other credits and incentives that are available to a company when it sets up operations in an environmentally friendly building.

Employment Tax Services

Our professionals can help companies identify payroll and unemployment tax issues by:

  • Identifying, quantifying, and recovering payroll tax overpayments
  • Complying with employment tax requirements during restructuring or related M&A transactions
  • Securing the abatement of penalties for payroll-related assessments

State Tax Resource Network (STRN)

SALT's STRN brings together professionals from across the United States to provide timely access to tax insights and guidance that can help address tax issues that may affect their competitiveness and ability to meet long-term business objectives. As part of our approach, our STRN professionals:

  • Gain an in-depth understanding of a client's business to provide high-quality representation
  • Work collaboratively within the network, leveraging the knowledge and experience of KPMG's SALT professionals
  • Help a client determine which procedural route to pursue-settlement, conciliation conferences, or administrative hearing
  • Assist the client through the administrative appeals process