Cyber Monday special on Harmari

We did say there was a promotion going on, didn’t we?   Whether you’re just getting started with Harmari, or you’re already using it daily for your searches, do take advantage of this promotion on until December 21!     Get 10 Harmari Search credits for the price of 5!  Simply look under the Pricing / Cart page

$5.5 Million of Illegally Exported Cars registered through Craigslist Straw Buyers

$500 or $1,000 sounds like a good deal if you are needy looking for a roommate or are looking for work. Illegal Car Exporters recruited straw buyers desperate for cash or rooms from Craigslist and would rent access to the fraudulent addresses they used to register the vehicles in the states to cover up their

Open Source Discovery featured in 2014 FTA Technology Conference

LTAS Technologies co-presented a topic “1099K and E-commerce Discovery : Not a Slam Dunk!” at the 2014 FTA Technology Conference in Portland, Oregon earlier this month. Minnesota Revenue presented the government perspective on how both open source and 1099K data compliment each other to bring you a complete picture of a taxpayer. LTAS was on

Hawaii fights Expedia, Orbitz, etc. in tax non-compliance

The State of Hawaii Department of Taxation wins a $150M ruling in its favour to collect taxes owing from a consortium of online travel booking agencies led by Expedia, and Travelocity.  Hawaii has on its state tax books a General Excise Tax (GET) of 4% where a business must pay for the privilege of doing

Revenue enhancement using Harmari TaxCrawler

The phrase “revenue enhancement” is used by municipalities to describe the process of auditing existing businesses to find potential tax liabilities and collect on them.  Some part of the phrase also implies looking for businesses that are not filing their business taxes to the municipality at all, yet still conducting business within the city.  This

Craigslist Odometer Discrepancy statistics

Below are some statistics generated from Craigslist autos ‘private sale’ ads where a VIN was provided, and the percentage of those VINs containing odometer discrepancies or invalid 17-digit VINs. Odometer discrepancy and invalid VIN data courtesy of Carfax. Craigslist raw data courtesy LTAS Technologies Inc [table tablesorter=”1″ width:500px align:center] City,State,Odometer Discrepancy[attr style=”width:20%”],VIN Error[attr style=”width:20%”] Atlanta,GA,11%,13%