CorpSystem® ZIPUtil Lookup

The aim of CorpSystem ZIPUtil Lookup is clear — to provide you with the most comprehensive, industry-specific tax rate information available today. It allows you to easily research sales, use and public utility tax rates for natural gas and electric power services, which helps you stay in compliance and avoid unnecessary fines. While its purpose is focused, its reach is expansive, covering more than 10,000 taxing jurisdictions in the U.S., its territories and Canada.

Thousands of utility tax rates at your fingertips. Contact us today — we’ll get you there.

ZIPUtil Lookup will help you save money and avoid audits by applying the proper utility sales tax for each service by jurisdiction. You’ll find utility sales tax determinations for products and services, as well as consumer-oriented taxability. ZIPUtil Lookup lets you:

• Stay on top of hundreds of changes with a simple monthly download of tax rates for the utility industry.
• Search for utility sales tax rates by ZIP code, ZIP+4, state, county, city, NPA/NXX or FIPS geocode.
• Answer customers’ taxation questions, review the latest tax changes, research new product and new jurisdiction decisions or find all the tax rates that apply to your service.
• Monitor your billing system’s public utility tax compliance to ensure you’ve got the most current tax rates available.
• Rely on tax information so accurate that even the IRS uses it.
• Instantly calculate sales tax based on current or prior rates.
• Display filing codes for each jurisdiction.

Service data includes:

• Commodity gas and electric
• Transportation and distribution charges
• Basic service charges
• High peak demand charges
• Miscellaneous fees
• General merchandise charges
• Recurring and non-recurring charges
• Scheduling fees

Provider types include:

• Regulated distributor
• Regulated supplier
• Non-regulated supplier
• Joint billers for commodity and distribution
• Regulated pipeline companies

Public utility tax data includes:

• All general retail sales and use
• Excise
• Franchise and privilege
• Gross receipts
• License
• Utility user
• Public utility
• Right of way
• Business and occupation
• School district
• PUC assessment
• Surcharges
• Sewer and library districts
• Transit district
• Renewable energy investment charges
• Care fund surcharges
• Transition cost recovery charges
• Utility inspection and supervision fees
• System benefits charges
• Stadium taxes

Customer types include:

• Residential
• Commercial
• Industrial
• Agricultural
• Manufacturing
• Mobile home/residential

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For quick and easy research, use ZIPUtil Lookup to identify specific tax types and related rates and surcharges from your desktop. Then add on other solutions that seamlessly integrate with it to provide a complete solution.

• Take the guesswork out of determining the appropriate taxing jurisdiction and applicable special tax districts for your customers with CorpSystem® Site-US Tax.
• To help you comply with exemption certificate requirements, CertCapture or TEAMS Express® — state-of-the-art exemption certificate management solutions — can capture, organize and manage sales tax exemption and resale certificates.
• CorpSystem® Sales Tax Online is a robust sales tax calculation solution, which includes rates, taxability rules and address validation.
• CorpSystem® Sales Tax Returns Online maps your sales and use tax information to the appropriate fields on all applicable returns, saving your accounting department days, or even weeks, each month.

  To further improve your sales tax processes, CCH offers a variety of integrated Sales Tax solutions.

  Thousands of utility tax rates at your fingertips. Contact us today

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