New York Sales & Use Tax Handbook for Contractors and Manufacturers Online Subscription!
The only complete online authoritative sales and use tax compliance handbook for contractors and manufacturers. A concise, on-point and easy to use resource for personnel who have to make on-the-spot taxability decisions.
Our Online Taxability Chart, the first and only publication of its kind, allows users to look up the taxability of tens of thousands of items including materials, services, equipment, tools, rentals and more in a quick, easy-to-use and searchable format. Subscriptions include all you need to know about certificates including specific direction on precisely which certificates to collect and provide for any project scenario. Our chapters describe the complex rules of sales and use taxation for New York State and New York City in a clear, concise, easy-to-understand format. This publications is designed for accountants, accounts payable and receivable personnel, contractors, manufacturers, project managers, estimators, controllers, CFOs and CEOs – anyone responsible for making taxability decisions for their company.
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Handbook Features
- 24/7 access to a comprehensive, yet easy to understand resource written by a 20 year veteran as a Sales Tax Auditor with an additional 15 years experience as a sales tax consultant specializing in New York State rules and regulations.
- Searchable Taxability Charts of tens of thousands of items including materials, services, equipment, tools, rentals, and more.
- Certificates: solve the certificate mystery and easily determine which certificates to collect and provide for any project scenario.
- Capital Improvement vs. Repair and Maintenance Chart.
- Specially designed for: accountants, accounts payable and receivable personnel, contractors, manufacturers, project managers, estimators, controllers, CFOs and CEOs
- The only service available that incorporates positions of the Department of Taxation, official administrative law judge and Tribunal decisions, and the sales and use tax law in one easy-to-use format!
WHAT WE DO
The Sales Tax Professionals is a full-service sales and use tax consulting business specializing in New York State sales tax rules and regulations and has been providing contractors, manufacturers, and others quality sales tax advice and solutions since 2005.
Our expertise extends into the following areas:
- Sales Tax Audit Representation – handled by a former New York State Sales Tax Auditor.
- Electric Studies – as required by New York State to receive an exemption on electricity used in the production process.
- In-House Training – tailored training developed specifically for your company.
- Group Seminars – held in several cities throughout New York State yearly. Click here to learn more about our Seminars.
- Sales and Use Tax Mock Audits – identify potential sales tax liabilities before the audit letter arrives.
- New York Sales and Use Tax Resource for Contractors and Manufacturers – New York Sales and Use Tax Resource for Contractors and Manufacturers – subscribe to this affordable and unique resource showing the taxability of tens of thousands of searchable items you may purchase or sell. Click here for more details about this resource.
HOW WE'RE DIFFERENT
Our experience sets us apart form other companies:
- You get us! We don’t resource out to other individuals or firms.
- We will treat your company as if it were our own.
- We will educate you and your staff so that you will be equipped to handle your future sales tax needs.
WHO WE ARE

Scott Sliker is Founder and CEO of The Sales Tax Professionals, a consulting business that specializes in providing innovative approaches to sales tax compliance.
With over 20 years of experience as an auditor in the New York State Sales Tax Department, Scott coordinated and performed audits for Fortune 100 companies across the United States in a wide range of industries, including construction, manufacturing, telecommunications, automotive, advertising, and others.
Finishing his tenure with the state as Field Audit Specialist, Scott has a unique and vast knowledge of New York sales and use tax regulations and laws that is unparalleled by his competitors.
Scott continues to thrive in this business due to his knowledge, experience, teaching ability, and above all, his honesty and integrity.
Rachel Sliker, Senior Sales Tax Consultant, has been with The Sales Tax Professionals since 2005 after receiving her Master’s degree. She has extensive audit experience in a wide variety of industries including manufacturing, contracting, advertising, and printing, and has become an expert in conducting electrical studies for manufacturing and production facilities so they may take advantage of the New York sales tax exemption for electricity used in production.
Rachel has a comprehensive knowledge of Industrial Development Agency (IDA) Projects and has facilitated the complicated IDA process for agents and non-agents alike communicating with IDA Group, attorneys, accountants, contractors, subcontractors, and manufacturers. After carefully reviewing and assessing the documentation and IDA agreements, she provides guidance and advice regarding the taxability of specific items (materials, supplies, services, rentals) related to that company’s specific IDA project to ensure maximum sales tax savings are achieved. Rachel also offers the service of completing, providing, and monitoring the required certificates and documentation ensuring all companies involved are in compliance with New York State sales and use tax regulations related to the IDA process.
Rachel has been assisting her clients to determine overpayment, underpayments and to educate them on the up-to-date rules and regulations in the ever-changing, complicated world of sales and use tax.

WHO WE SERVE
Sales Tax Managers
Accountants
Accounts Payable and Receivable Personnel
Contractors
Manufacturers
Project Managers
Estimators
Controllers
CFOs and CEOs
Anyone responsible for making taxability decisions for their company.
TESTIMONIALS
The Online Taxability Chart is awesome and so easy to use!
Brandi Smith
A/R & Collection Specialist, StorFlex Holdings, Inc.
WE HIGHLY RECOMMEND The Sales Tax Professionals to solve any sales tax problems. The Sales Tax Professionals offer a unique service. They are experts in only sales tax, and because it is their specialty, they understand all the complex issues related to the sales tax rules and regulations. We have been amazed by the amount of knowledge they have. When we have questions about IDA’s, QEZE’s, Empire Zones, capital improvement projects, or repair jobs, or whenever we have a sales tax question, we call The Sales Tax Professionals.
Barb Sauer
VP of Finance, Lechase Construction Services LLC
Our company engaged The Sales Tax Professionals to review our payment files and tax returns.
On an ongoing, consistent basis, The Sales Tax Professionals implement procedures to ensure sales tax compliance from estimating, accounts payable, and billings. Scott and his group have continued to keep our company current with any changes to sales tax regulations. I have recommended The Sales Tax Professionals to our Owners, Subcontractors, and vendors all with positive results.
Michael S. Garvey
CFO, Bast Hatfield Construction, LLC
When I met Scott Sliker of The Sales Tax Professionals in 2013, we were in the process of wrapping up a 3 year New York State sales tax audit. Our company was about to write a big check to NYS. Thank God I met Scott at a seminar the week before I signed the final document. Through his negotiation, Scott saved us quite a bit of money. Since then,
Their team has performed an internal audit for our company every year. Through this relationship, The Sales Tax Professionals have taught me a great deal about NYS sales tax law.
Onkham Rattanaphasouk
CFO, RP Oakhill Building Company Inc.
I COULDN’T BELIEVE IT! An accountant suggested that I call The Sales Tax Professionals. They reviewed the very same records as my accountant did. Not only did they help me to greatly reduce the audit assessment, but I was able to file for a refund of more than $136,000. I highly recommend The Sales Tax Professionals.
Chuck Norris
C.A. Norris, LLC
The Sales Tax Professionals have always been a very knowledgeable and accessible resource for PSPI.
They are quick to answer all of our sales tax questions and offer us guidance as needed
Lillian Bunstone
Accounting Manager, Potsdam Specialty Paper, Inc.
NEW YORK SALES AND USE TAX HANDBOOK SUBSCRIPTION
PLANS AND FEATURES
Online Handbook Chapters Include:
- Introduction of New York Sales and Use Tax Administration
- Definitions of Commonly Used Terms
- Return Preparation and Other Compliance Requirements
- Purchases of Goods and Services
- Advertising and Promotion
- Contractors and Construction Projects
- Interstate Sales and Purchases
- Bulk Sales of Business Assets
- Audits, Assessments and Administrative Procedures
- Taxability Chart of Equipment, Capital Items, Supplies and Services
Continuously Updated – as taxability changes the handbook is continuously updated to incorporate the tax department’s interpretations.
Easily Accessible – simply log in from home or office and the information is at your fingertips.
Eliminates Overcompliance – over 80% of all New York manufacturers and contractors OVERPAY! The Handbook helps you avoid “overcompliance” by correctly identifying the taxability of equipment, services and other items typically purchased by manufacturers and contractors.
Eliminates Undercompliance – most sales tax audits are generated by underpayments of sales tax to vendors. The Online Handbook helps eliminate those underpayments and keeps you under the radar of the New York Taxation and Finance Department.
Save time by bookmarking your most commonly referenced line items in our system, viewing them at a glance on your “my favorites page.”
Stay organized by adding your own private notes to each item in the handbook.
Which edition is right for you?
Contractor’s Edition
- Taxability Chart of Purchases featuring convenient dropdown boxes to guide in determining the sales tax status of tens of thousands of items such as materials, services, tools, supplies, equipment, rentals, and more purchased for any type of job including private industry, government, exempt organization, IDA (as agent or non-agent), solar for sale, and direct pay permit holder – as the owner, prime contractor, or subcontractor.
- Notes and Favorites: The database seamlessly allows for items to be saved as favorites to ensure easy retrieval along with your personal note section for each item.
- Capital Improvement vs. Repair and Maintenance: Included is a list of various activities with respect to real property which are identified as either a capital improvement or a repair, maintenance, or installation service.
- Easy to Search and Sort charts in the database.
- Certificates: This section clearly defines which certificate(s) to collect from my customer and which certificate(s) to provide to vendors and subcontractors.
- Continuously Updated – as taxability changes, the handbook is continuously updated to incorporate the tax department’s interpretations, law changes, and court cases.
Manufacturer’s Edition
- Taxability Chart of Purchases which features thousands of items such as equipment, tools, supplies, materials, services, rentals and more in an easy to use searchable database to help determine the taxability of both manufacturing and nonmanufacturing purchases.
- Notes and Favorites: The database seamlessly allows for items to be saved as favorites to ensure easy retrieval along with your personal note section for each item.
- Easy to Search and Sort charts in the database.
- Continuously Updated – as taxability changes the handbook is continuously updated to incorporate the tax department’s interpretations, law changes, and court cases.
Included in both the Contractor and Manufacturer Editions:
- An Introduction to New York Sales and Use Tax Administration
- Definitions of Commonly Used Terms
- Return Preparation and Other Compliance Requirements
- Purchases of Goods and Services
- Advertising and Promotion
- Contractors and Construction Projects
- Interstate Sales and Purchases
- Bulk Sales of Business Assets
- Audits, Assessments and Administrative Procedures
- Taxability Chart of Items including: Materials, Services, Tools, Supplies, Equipment, Rentals, and more.
- Continuously Updated – as taxability changes the handbook is continuously updated to incorporate the tax department’s interpretations, law changes, and court cases.
Why subscribe?
Eliminate Overcompliance – over 80% of all New York manufacturers and contractors overpay sales tax! The Handbook helps you avoid “overcompliance” by correctly identifying the taxability of items such as materials, services, tools, supplies, rentals, etc. typically purchased by contractors and manufacturers.
Eliminate Undercompliance – most sales tax audits are generated by underpayments of sales tax to vendors. The Online Handbook helps eliminate those underpayments and keeps you under the radar of the New York Taxation and Finance Department.
Lower the chances of a sales tax audit for your company – when you make the correct sales taxability decisions every time on sales and purchase invoices and correctly manage your certificates, this greatly decreases the odds of being targeted for a sales tax audit.
Save Time – bookmark your most commonly referenced line items in our system and view them at a glance on your “Notes and Favorites” page.
Stay organized by adding your own private notes to any item in the taxability chart(s).
Stay connected 24/7 access to a comprehensive, yet easy to understand resource written by a 20 year veteran as a Sales Tax Auditor with an additional 15 years experience as a sales tax consultant specializing in New York State rules and regulations.
Team Access INCLUDED With All Subscriptions!
All plans include 5 assignable seats that you can share with members of your team, granting them equal access to all the benefits of your subscription.
Need more than 5 seats? Select your plan, then pick the number of seats that’s right for your team.

Manufacturer's Edition
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Get 2 months free vs monthly billing
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Save Notes and Favorites
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Includes 5 Assignable Seats for Team Members
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Option to upgrade for more seats if needed
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Searchable taxability database with thousands of items for manufacturers
Contractor's Edition
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Get 2 months free vs monthly billing
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Save Notes and Favorites
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Includes 5 Assignable Seats for Team Members
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Option to upgrade for more seats if needed
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Searchable taxability database with thousands of items by job type for contractors
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Details about relevant certificates by job type
ALL ACCESS EDITION
Manufacturers + Contractors-
Get 2 months free vs monthly billing
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Save Notes and Favorites
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Includes 5 Assignable Seats for Team Members
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Option to upgrade for more seats if needed
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Searchable taxability database with thousands of items for manufacturers
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Searchable taxability database with thousands of items by job type for contractors
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Details about relevant certificates by job type
Manufacturer's Edition
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Save Notes and Favorites
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Includes 5 assignable seats for Team Members
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Option to upgrade for more seats if needed
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Searchable taxability database with thousands of items for manufacturers
Contractor's Edition
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Save Notes and Favorites
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Includes 5 Assignable Seats for Team Members
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Option to upgrade for more seats if needed
-
Searchable taxability database with thousands of items by job type for contractors
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Details about relevant certificates by job type
ALL ACCESS EDITION
Manufacturers + Contractors-
Save Notes and Favorites
-
Includes 5 Assignable Seats for Team Members
-
Option to upgrade for more seats if needed
-
Searchable taxability database with thousands of items for manufacturers
-
Searchable taxability database with thousands of items by job type for contractors
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Details about relevant certificates by job type