OUR MISSION IS TO MAINTAIN OUR LEADERSHIP IN SECURING SALES
OR USE TAX EXEMPTIONS ON AIRCRAFT PURCHASED BY OUR CLIENTS.
WE WILL WORK IN CLOSE PARTNERSHIP TO EXPAND AND IMPROVE EACH
OF OUR CLIENT'S BUSINESS GOALS. WE CELEBRATE WITH OUR
CLIENTS THE RESULTS OF OUR COMBINED EFFORTS TOWARDS MEETING
THEIR BUSINESS PLANS, PROJECTED GROWTH AND FINANCIAL
STRENGTH. WE COMMIT OURSELVES TO WORKING HARD, PROVIDING
LEADING EDGE TAX REPRESENTATION ON A TIMELY AND EFFICIENT
BASIS, WHILE MAINTAINING THE HIGHEST MORAL STANDARDS,
BUSINESS INTEGRITY AND PROFESSIONAL ETHICS. WE WILL CONTINUE
TO MAINTAIN AND EXPAND UPON OUR 30-YEAR SUCCESSFUL RECORD OF
MEETING AND ULTIMATELY EXCEEDING OUR CLIENT'S EXPECTATIONS
IN SECURING TAX EXEMPTIONS
OR USE TAX. |
Since our founding year 1980,
Associated Sales Tax Consultants, Inc. (ASTC) has
represented more than 6,000 taxpayers before the California
State Board of Equalization (Board). The result is that we
have represented more than twice as many taxpayers before the Board as any other company in existence. We have
represented small sole proprietorships to large
multi-national corporations. The people we represent are
high-profile sports figures, entertainment celebrities,
corporate tax departments,
individual owners and other aircraft enthusiasts.
Throughout our history, ASTC has
forced the Board through litigation to change their policies
of operating under a cloak of secrecy. The Board failed to
respond to our public and private outcries for disclosure of
their private letter rulings. Therefore,
in the early 1990’s we took the Board to court and we
prevailed in Superior Court. The Court ordered the Board of
Equalization to allow ASTC and the public access to their
library of documents and private letter rulings which the
Board claimed were not subject to disclosure.
The Board appealed the Superior
Court’s decision to the Appellate Court. The Appellate
Court’s decision became a published case where the Court
admonished the Board for keeping its working law secret from
the public. The court case is State Board of Equalization et
al, Petitioners v Associated Sales Tax Consultants, Inc.,
real party in interest (10 Cal App 4d 1177).
The Board then appealed the
“secret law” judgment against them to the California Supreme
Court. However, the Supreme Court refused to hear the
Board’s appeal and admonished the Board for its
surreptitious policies. The Supreme Court’s refusal made the
Appellate Court’s decision the law of the land. However,
only those who knew of the decision could utilize the
Court’s findings.
As a result, in order to require
the Board to be accountable and better inform the public, we
needed to codify the Court’s judgment into law. This was
accomplished in 1998 by enacting legislation through the
passage of Senate Bill (SB) 1274 authored by Senator Rainey.
In addition, in 1989 Associated
Sales Tax Consultants helped spearhead legislative action
which today is known as the “California Taxpayer Bill of
Rights.”
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