Nextel of Texas slapped with $50M tax lien - Dallas Business Journal:

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million in back sales taxes. The Comptroller’s offic on May 5 filed a lien for that amount against Nextel ofTexasa Inc. It is the largest current saless tax lien in the state in which the taxpayer has appealed the matter according to data supplied bythe Comptroller. Historical data on sales-taxd liens wasn’t immediately the Comptroller’s office said. “The lien was in connection with sales tax followinv an audit done onthis company,” says R.J. a Comptroller’s office spokesman. He says the audift covered the period from October 1998 througbDecember 2003. The audit was launched in which was why it did not coved any timeafter 2003, DeSilvqa says.
The audit of Nextel of Texas was completed in DeSilva says. If any additional years were to be examined via an a new audit would have to be DeSilva says the state opted to file a even though the administrative appeals process had not in part because of the size of the tax He said there are a number of factora that go into the decision to file a but declined to disclose allthe criteria.