Built by jobbers, for jobbers
TaxTraks is a fuel jobber solutions company. We recover the excise tax, sales tax, penalties, fines and interest our clients paid but never owed.
Two people who got tired of watching money walk out the door
Ryan Rogers spent twenty-five years running a petroleum business. Jim Sharpe spent thirty-plus as a CPA arguing with taxing authorities on behalf of clients. They kept running into the same thing from opposite sides of the desk.
Fuel tax is filed monthly, across several agencies, under rules that change without much notice. Exemptions go unclaimed. Notices arrive that nobody has time to fight. None of that is a sign of a sloppy back office — it is what the system produces when the filing burden is that heavy and the rules are that fragmented.
So they built software that reads the filings and finds what was overpaid, and put a CPA practice behind it to actually go and get the money back. That is TaxTraks.
What we do
Recovery first, then prevention.
- Excise tax recovery on gallons that were exempt, resold, exported, dyed or already taxed upstream.
- Sales & use tax recovery on exempt sales, tax-on-tax and qualifying equipment.
- Penalty and fine abatement where an assessment was issued in error or misapplied.
- Interest charged on amounts never owed — and interest owed to you on the refund.
- Automated filing so the same dollars stop leaking next month.
Who you will be working with
A small team on purpose. When you call, you get the person who knows your file.
25-year owner-operator of Lakeview Petroleum. Expertise in cardlock, gas station management and software.
CPA and software developer since 1981. Has fought for tax clients for more than 30 years, and wrote the software that finds the overpayments.
Want to talk to one of us? Call (530) 592-5046 or ask for a free assessment.
Yuba City, California — working nationwide
Every state writes its own fuel tax rules, so we work them separately rather than assuming. Being a small firm in a fuel town is the point: we know the operators, and we know the agencies.
Independent
No software vendor, no rack, no distributor owns a piece of us. Our only job is getting your money back.
CPA-led
Claims are built to survive review, because the ones that are not get clawed back a year later.
Software-backed
The filings go through our own system, so nothing depends on somebody spotting it by eye at 6pm.
Answerable
You get named people and a direct line, not a ticket number.
Find out what you are owed.
The assessment costs nothing and takes one conversation. The worst outcome is you find out your filings are clean.