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 multistate 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.
Resources
Resources & Articles
2026 State Tax Update: Digital Products, Data Centers, and Diverging State Rules
The third quarter of 2026 brought several state tax developments that could affect how businesses price transactions, plan investments, and prepare returns. California enacted a sales tax expansion for prewritten software and SaaS beginning in 2027, while Kentucky began taxing data brokering services in August. At the same time, Maryland appealed a Tax Court ruling against its digital advertising tax, leaving the future of that tax unresolved.
Data center incentives also drew renewed scrutiny. North Carolina ended its sales tax exemption for electricity used at certified data centers while retaining exemptions for certain other qualifying purchases. Meanwhile, New York and North Carolina adopted rules that differ from federal treatment of research expenditures, creating additional state return adjustments. Our Q3 article covers these developments, along with changes to local sales tax collection and other compliance requirements businesses should watch as the year draws to a close.
Maryland Tax Court Decisions Raise Questions for State Digital Advertising Taxes
On August 14, the Tax Court ordered refunds, with applicable interest, to Apple, Google, and Peacock TV. In each case, the court found that Maryland’s digital advertising tax violated the Internet Tax Freedom Act, the dormant Commerce Clause, and the Due Process Clause.
The court’s analysis may have implications beyond Maryland. It concluded that digital and nondigital advertising are sufficiently similar for purposes of the Internet Tax Freedom Act. Because Maryland generally does not impose a statewide tax on comparable nondigital advertising, the court held that the digital advertising tax was preempted by federal law.
The decisions also found constitutional problems with the tax’s use of worldwide revenue to establish the $100 million applicability threshold and determine the tax rate. In the Peacock TV decision, the court separately held that the statutory exemptions for certain broadcast entities and news media entities violated the First Amendment.
Will My AI Agent Create Nexus
An artificial intelligence agent does not need a desk, a company badge, or a W-2 to change a taxpayer’s state tax profile. It may answer customer questions, negotiate terms, approve transactions, monitor equipment, issue refunds, arrange delivery, or transmit a software fix. Each task can occur in seconds and at national scale. The state tax question, however, is not whether the agent is a person. It is whether the business, through the agent, is conducting an activity that a state may tax.
That distinction matters. The Supreme Court’s decision in South Dakota v. Wayfair, Inc. rejected a physical-presence requirement for sales tax nexus and recognized that an Internet seller can be present in a state in a meaningful way without traditional physical presence.[1] Although Wayfair addressed sales tax, its practical message has influenced the broader state tax conversation: a business cannot assume that activity is outside a state simply because its employees and headquarters are elsewhere.