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How would you classify these products- Tangible Personal Property, Intangible Property, or Real Property? Understanding your product is key to making sure your company is compliant with sales tax. It’s a big problem when you have to go back and fix a misclassification- these problems just snowball. This also goes for professionals who utilize automation. Automation systems do a lot of the work for you, but if you haven’t set it up properly, your whole process could be filled with messy mistakes. Let’s play a little game- we'll give you an item, and you have to guess if its Tangible Personal Property, Intangible Property, or Real Property. Find the answers in the comments. 1. Desk 2. Office Building 3. Patents 4. Fence Maybe those were easy- but starting with the fundamentals can ensure you find compliance for your company. Let’s kick it up a notch: 5. Livestock 6. Mineral rights 7. Stock certificate 8. Carpet Something you need to keep in mind here: it all depends on the state! As sales tax is a state-based tax, each state can set up their definitions and classifications however they see. For this example, we’re using tax definitions in Illinois. Check the comments- how'd you do? Anything you’re surprised by? Find out why here: https://lnkd.in/gn_is9_q #AccountingTips #Accountants #Finance

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ANSWER KEY: 1. Tangible Personal Property  2. Real Property  3. Intangible Personal Property  4. Real Property  5. Personal Property  6. Intangible Property  7. Intangible Property  8. Real Property if the carpet is glued to the floor, Tangible Personal Property if the carpet is only tacked to the floor.  How'd you do?

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