State Unemployment Tax Recovery

Employment Tax Auditing and Recovery As the U.S. economy continues its recovery from the recent "Great Recession," many businesses are finding that the costs of unemployment have had a significant impact on their bottom lines.

The reason?

During the recent downturn, unemployment claims reached almost record numbers. But across the country, the methods and models that states use to calculate annual state unemployment insurance (SUI) tax rates fluctuate dramatically - incorporating many different complex factors and variables. Because of this, many businesses may have been taxed at a higher rate than was appropriate.

We can help.

A review of your SUI charges could lead to a large recovery of taxes paid by your company or organization. Working with data already prepared by your in-house accounting department, we'll review three years of SUI taxes paid. Our review is a deep-dive, vertical analysis that traditional unemployment consulting firms typically do not undertake. We'll look at several key areas, including, but not limited to:

  • State tax rate calculation models and application
  • Contributions paid-in to date
  • Reserve balances and benefit ratios
  • FEIN tax structures
  • Impact of significant business transactions (M&A, downsizings, restructurings, employee transfers, etc.)

Please note:
Best of all, we DO NOT require access to detailed or sensitive payroll information and we DO NOT require any employee time to help you recover SUI funds. Furthermore, we'll provide you with both a retroactive review of the past three years to identify and secure refund or credit opportunities from prior overpayments, as well a forward-looking assessment to help you develop a strategy to minimize tax implications from upcoming business transactions, evaluate the impact of our retroactive review on future tax rates, and analyze opportunities for voluntary contributions for the coming tax year.

Typically, the complete process will last from 45 days to six months, depending on specific client needs.

Our SUI recovery program has been successful at companies such as Tiffany & Co., Viacom, CBS, KeyBank, Cardinal Health and CDW Corporation.

Procurement Services

Procurement Auditing As companies try to maximize savings from procurement initiatives, auditing the results becomes a critical step to ensure continued success. Source One's approach can provide early insights into maverick spending and duplicate payments.
Procurement Auditing Services
Spend Analysis Solutions Source One's experienced professionals will work with your team to conduct a full spend analysis that will identify a full realm of potential savings opportunities. No need to purchase expensive software! We will provide the tools and resources you need to begin an full and effective analysis.
Spend Analysis Services
Professional Services Source One offers experienced guidance to help organization contract with independent consultants and service providers. Our solutions for professional service agreements include a detailed review of terms and conditions in a standard professional service agreement, and can even verify subcontracting and non-disclosure clauses.
Sourcing Professional Services

Have you been billed by your telephone company properly?

According to Aberdeen, companies lose anywhere from 12 to 17% of their telecommunications spend due to a lack of telecom expense management tools.


When we conduct a telecom strategic sourcing initiative, we audit prior telecin invoices and look to recover misbilling and incorrect fees billed to our customers.

Telco Audits

Source One has a collection of tools, databases, capabilities and visibility into spending that is simply unmatched in the industry.

Source One's state of the art technological capabilities provide us with a decided advantage as we initiate a strategic sourcing process. We maintain a wide array of databases and subscriptions to crucial data resources to help optimize the supply chain and reduce costs.


Our team has been collecting data from strategic sourcing initiatives since 1992. Additionally, we power some of the world's largest e-sourcing tool sites, and have visibility into market trending from suppliers across the globe.

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