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to: transposition errors resulting in misallocations; erroneous consolidation of multiple outlets; formula errors, misreporting of "point of sale" to the wrong location; delays in reporting new outlets; misallocating use tax payments to the allocation pools or wrong jurisdiction; and erroneous fund transfers and adjustments. 2. CONSULTANT shall initiate contacts with state agencies, and sales management and accounting officials in companies that have businesses where a probability of error exists to verify whether current tax receipts accurately reflect the local sales activity. Such contacts will be conducted in a professional and courteous manner. 3. CONSULTANT shall (i) prepare and submit to the Department of Tax and Fee Administration information for the purpose of correcting allocation errors that are identified and (ii) follow-up with individual businesses and the California Department of Tax and Fee Administration to promote recovery by the CITY of back or prospective quarterly payments that may be owing. 4. If during the course of its audit, CONSULTANT finds businesses located in the CITY that are properly reporting sales and use tax but have the potential for modifying their operation to provide an even greater share to the CITY, CONSULTANT may so advise CITY and work with those businesses and the CITY to encourage such changes. C. DEFICIENCY/ALLOCATION REVIEWS AND RECOVERY CONSULTANT shall conduct on-going reviews to identify and correct unreported transactions and tax payments and distribution errors thereby generating previously unrealized revenue for the CITY. Said reviews shall include: (i) Comparison of county -wide local tax allocations to transactions tax for brick and mortar stores and other cash register -based businesses, where clearly all transactions are conducted on-site within the Measure "RR" CITY boundaries, and therefore subject to transactions tax. (ii) Review of any significant one-time use tax allocations to ensure that there is corresponding transaction tax payments for taxpayers with nexus within the CITY boundaries. (iii) Review of state-wide transactions tax allocations and patterns to identify any obvious errors and omissions. (iv) Identification and follow-up with any potentially large purchasers of supplies and equipment (e.g. hospitals, universities, manufacturing plants, agricultural operations, refineries) to ensure that their major vendors are properly reporting corresponding transactions tax payments to the Measure "RR" Transactions Tax District. 2. CONSULTANT will initiate, where the probability of an error exists, contacts with the appropriate taxpayer management and accounting officials to verify whether current tax receipts accurately reflect the local sales activity. Such contacts will be conducted in a professional and courteous manner so as to enhance CITY's relations with the business community. REV: 12-07-2020 EI ATTY/AGR.2020.284/Hinderliter, de Llamas and Associates (HdL) (Page 12 of 17)