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.
Resources
Resources & Articles
Setting Budgets and Tax Rates in Texas
As the second quarter comes to a close, attention in the property tax industry shifts from the assessment phase of the property tax calendar to the budget and tax rate adoption phase, which ultimately impacts property tax bills issued at the end of the year. Local taxing jurisdictions rely on property tax rates to fund their annual budgets. While assessed property values often receive the most attention from taxpayers, tax rates established by local taxing authorities can have an equally significant effect on the final tax bill and are frequently overlooked by those outside the property tax profession.
Top States for Manufacturing Incentives in 2026
As reshoring activity accelerates, several states have emerged as leaders in attracting manufacturing investment through aggressive incentive programs, workforce initiatives, and infrastructure support. While the right location ultimately depends on a company’s industry, labor needs, logistics strategy, and capital investment profile, Georgia, Texas, Mississippi, South Carolina, and Tennessee continue to stand out in 2026.
Could Invalidated Tariffs Create an Overlooked State Tax Recovery Opportunity?
Recent court decisions involving tariffs imposed under IEEPA have created new questions and potential opportunities for businesses with significant import activity. While many companies are focused on possible federal customs refunds, there may also be an overlooked opportunity to recover related state sales and use tax.
Why This Matters
If tariff costs were included in the purchase price used to calculate sales or use tax, a customs refund may be only part of the recovery story.
For businesses with high import volumes, multistate operations, or complex supply chains, the dollars can add up quickly. Yet these opportunities are often missed when customs and state tax analyses are handled separately.