R.I. Gen. Laws § 44-18.1-2 — State level administration

Each member state shall provide state level administration of sales and use taxes.
The state level administration may be performed by a member state’s tax commission,
department of revenue, or any other single entity designated by state law. Sellers
are only required to register with, file returns with, and remit funds to the state
level authority. Each member state shall provide for collection of any local taxes
and distribution of them to the appropriate taxing jurisdictions. Each member state
shall conduct, or authorize others to conduct on its behalf, all audits of the sellers
registered under the Agreement for that state’s tax and the tax of its local jurisdictions,
and local jurisdictions shall not conduct independent sales or use tax audits of sellers
registered under the Agreement.