Utility Taxes
Pinpoint errors in gas, electric, water taxes—known as franchise fees in some states.
When’s the last time your municipality or county took a careful look at all sources of revenue? If it’s been a while, there are likely revenue leaks costing your community real dollars that add up to real problems. But through our 360 Degree Revenue Cloud approach, we review your revenue, find any issues, secure missing revenue, and correct errors going forth.
Address Data Analysis | Financial Analysis | Compliance
Finding lost revenue starts with the complete and thoughtful analysis of millions of data. Using our exclusive combination of technology and expertise, Azavar examines all fee and tax areas where revenue leaks might be happening.
Through an advanced selection of analysis tools such as database mining, GIS analysis, and data correlation error rates and patterns, we will find and correct all revenue errors while recovering funds for your community.
Following our electronic data analysis, we apply a financial review that matches theoretical dollar-for-dollar with actual payments. Our team examines your numbers to ensure expenses paid, gross revenue computed, and taxes received are all correct as established by contracts and ordinances.
Through our financial analysis, we uncover missed, underpaid, or incorrectly paid taxes owed to your community—sometimes in the millions.
Our thorough review ensures your data and financial information are in line with your contracts, franchises, and ordinances. We analyze all relevant laws regarding your rights in dealing with tax remitters and collecting back revenues or credits due to you.
We then inspect your agreements from a customer perspective to make sure service is delivered as expected. Along the way, we work closely with all parties to ensure compliance with the tax remitting and filing.
Pinpoint errors in gas, electric, water taxes—known as franchise fees in some states.
When companies use your right-of-way, your municipality deserves to be paid—accurately and efficiently.
Ensure complicated sales and use taxes are properly remitted by all relevant parties.
Charged on phone and mobile bills, this tax type often is rife with errors.
It’s easy to overlook taxes due on all hotel revenue—not just room stays.
With dozens of rental services, keeping tabs on all of them is extremely difficult for municipalities.
Equalize the playing field for local establishments by checking to make sure all are paying properly.
Double-check hauler-licensing and cartage remittances. It’s easy to miss out on taxes due.
Through a complete look at your revenues, we can identify any concerns and tackle them right away.
“We would have never recovered the revenue on our own. It would have been worse than finding a needle in a haystack.”
"Our community will continue to benefit in the years to come from the ongoing revenues that were uncovered by Azavar's investigation."