Revenue Monitoring Services

The Vendor is required to provide specialized revenue monitoring services related to sales, transactions, and use tax revenues generated within the measure “a” program area.
- Measure a sales tax revenues through comprehensive monitoring, allocation error detection, recovery of lost revenues, and the provision of accurate and timely data to support financial forecasting and planning.
- Conduct on-going reviews to identify and correct unreported transactions and tax payments and distribution errors thereby generating previously unrealized revenue for agency. 
• Comparison of county-wide local tax allocations to transactions tax for brick and mortar stores and other cash register-based businesses, where clearly all transactions are conducted on-site within the measure "a" agency boundaries, and therefore subject to transactions tax.
• Review of any significant one-time use tax allocations to ensure that there is corresponding transaction tax payments for taxpayers with nexus within agency boundaries. 
• Review of state-wide transactions tax allocations and patterns to identify any obvious errors and omissions.
• Identification and follow-up with any potentially large purchasers of supplies and equipment (e.g. hospitals, universities, manufacturing plants, agricultural operations, refineries) to ensure that their major vendors are properly reporting corresponding transactions tax payments to the measure "a" transactions tax.
- The probability of an error exists, contacts with the appropriate taxpayer management and accounting officials to verify whether current tax receipts accurately reflect the local sales activity.
- Data base management, reports and staff support
• A database containing all department of registration data for each business within the measure "a" agency boundaries holding a seller's permit account.
• The quarterly transactions and use tax allocations under each account for the most current and previous quarters where available.
• Provide updated reports each quarter identifying changes in allocation totals by individual businesses, business groups and by categories.
• Contractor shall advise and work with agency staff on planning and economic questions related to maximizing revenues, preparation of revenue projections and general information on sales, transactions and use tax questions.
• Contractor shall make available to agency the contractor's proprietary software program and measure "a" database containing all applicable registration and quarterly allocation information for agency business outlets registered with the department of tax and fee administration.
- Questions/Inquires Deadline: July 29, 2025