Our Services
Advantous uniquely provides customizable end-to-end solutions that range from turnkey compliance services to high-level planning and advisory consulting. Our team of professionals bring cross-industry depth and experience, resources, and the technical expertise to protect and enhance your bottom line.
Business Incentives
We assist companies with identifying, negotiating, and complying with various federal, state, and local incentive programs available. Whether a job creation programs, property tax abatement, cooperative endeavor agreements, or many others across various states, our experience in delivering bottom-line benefits is unmatched.
Sales & Use Tax
As a premier sales and use tax consulting firm, we are focused on helping companies navigate unique and complex sales and use tax environments. Our talented team of professionals puts our extensive knowledge to work to handle all sales and use tax issues, including reverse audits, audit defense, and multi-state appeals and disputes
Property Tax
Our property tax experts have over three decades of experience in assisting clients with a wide variety of property tax matters. In the ever-changing business environment, our team works with state and local officials to help our clients negotiate equitable, fair assessments and valuations.
Income & Franchise Tax
Companies must navigate through a complex state and local tax landscape. Aggressive tax enforcement as well as tax laws and policies that are sometimes “fluid” in nature present challenges to businesses in a wide array of industries consistently achieving and maintaining income tax compliance.
Additional Services
Our services extend well beyond those listed here. We also utilize key relationships at the federal, state, and local levels of government with extensive experience advocating on behalf of business and industry.
Appeals & Disputes
Advantous’ team of tax professionals have secured advantageous results for our clients before an array of taxing authorities and administrative bodies. As Advantous advises clients from a wide variety of industries and in all aspects of tax compliance and planning, we are a market leader in handling formal appeals and disputes of all tax types.
Government Relations
We utilize relationships at all levels of government with extensive experience advocating on behalf of business and industry. While we aren’t a lobbying firm, our relationships with elected officials on tax matters are unique. We help companies obtain local incentives, and we serve as thought leaders on nearly all tax matters.
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Capturing (and Defending) the Enterprise Zone Program Benefit
In prior weeks, we explored how companies secure designation under the Texas Enterprise Zone (TEZ) Program and how job certification makes program benefits available. Once jobs have been certified, companies may proceed to the next phase of the lifecycle — filing for the recovery of state sales and use tax associated with the project.
While job certification determines the amount of benefit that may be available, refund filing is the step where that benefit is actually claimed. It is also one of the most technical and closely reviewed phases of the program.
For many projects, this is where the difference between full benefit realization and reduced outcomes becomes most apparent.
Creating (and Keeping) the Enterprise Zone Program Benefit
In our previous discussions, we explored how companies secure designation under the Texas Enterprise Zone (TEZ) Program and how the application phase establishes the foundation for the lifecycle of a project. Once designation is achieved, however, the next critical phase begins — job certification.
While designation creates eligibility, job certification is what makes program benefits available. Just as importantly, it is also the phase that determines whether those benefits will ultimately be sustained under audit.
Under the program, job certification is not simply a reporting step, it is subject to formal review and verification by the Texas Comptroller as part of the refund process.
For many companies, this is where the program shifts from planning to scrutiny.
2026 SALT Legislative Trends
As state legislatures convene across the country in 2026, a clear pattern is emerging in state and local tax (SALT) policy. Across jurisdictions, three dominant trends have taken shape: (1) efforts to eliminate or reduce individual income taxes; (2) widespread property tax relief initiative; and (3) expansion of sales tax bases to capture modern, service-driven economy. These trends reflect a shift in how states balance revenue stability, competitiveness, and political feasibility.
Several states have introduced significant income tax reduction bills during Q1 of the 2026 legislative cycle, including both immediate and phased in relief.
In Georgia, legislators are considering multiple bills to provide corporate and individual income tax relief, such as these two notable bills:
– HB 1001 would accelerate the reduction to the state’s flat income tax rate from 5.19% to 4.99% beginning in 2026.
– HB 880 would establish a longer-term framework to further reduce the income tax rate to approximately 3.99%, subject to revenue triggers.