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Issued: July 2003

SUMMARY

The purpose of this audit was to determine whether all businesses in areas annexed by the City of Austin since 1997 were added to the City of Austin sales tax base in a timely manner.

In general, we believe more attention should be paid to verifying that annexations have been incorporated into the sales tax base. We found that almost 30 percent of the businesses that were annexed between 1997 and 2001 were not incorporated into Austin’s sales tax base in a timely manner. We also identified some businesses, located in Austin, whose taxing jurisdiction was listed as outside of Austin. Recommendations made in our first sales tax audit report, released in March 2003, should address these problems for future annexations.

All accounts flagged during this audit related to taxing jurisdiction and timeliness have been sent to the state for resolution.

Click here to go to our audit request form to request a hard copy of this report (Report No. AU03305C: Sales Tax Series) or download the entire text of the Sales Tax Series (Size: 368 KB) in Adobe Acrobat. You will need Adobe's Acrobat Reader to view these files.

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