04/16/2021
I’m a remote seller – why should I worry about business license rules?
Many business owners and managers are aware that municipal business licenses are required to operate brick-and-mortar stores, and sometimes for other types of physical presence (such as licenses for...
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03/10/2021
Why do I care where my e-commerce business inventory is located?
I think we can all acknowledge that the growth in e-commerce spending has been staggering, especially in the past 12 to 18 months considering the coronavirus pandemic. According to...
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01/19/2021
Accounting Firms – Think Twice about Cloud-Based Sales Tax Automation
Accounting firms are hungry for ways to provide evermore services to existing clients while appealing to larger swaths of new clients. Automated cloud-based tax compliance has emerged as a...
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01/13/2021
Lowest and Highest Sales Tax States
The state with the lowest state sales tax rate is Alaska at 1.76%, well below the national average of 7.12%. After Alaska, the lowest rates are in Hawaii (4.44%),...
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10/02/2020
Tax Amnesty
A Tax Amnesty bill was passed by the Ohio House to give taxpayers an opportunity to pay their delinquent state tax liabilities without penalties or interest. The Tax Amnesty...
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07/19/2020
Marketplace Facilitators
As states push forward in testing the boundaries of the Supreme Court’s decision in South Dakota v. Wayfair, Inc., the new front line has become marketplace facilitators. Most states...
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04/16/2020
Sales and Use Tax Filing Update – COVID-19
Updated April 16, 2020 – As government at various levels responds to the threat of coronavirus (aka COVID-19), many state tax collection agencies have issued guidance regarding due dates...
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03/17/2020
Paying for the Wayfair Decision
The Supreme Court’s decision essentially overturning the physical presence standard for determining sales and use tax nexus was over a year and half ago, in June 2018. Since that...
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02/04/2020
Wayfair – One year later
Since the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in South Dakota v. Wayfair in June 2018, nearly every state and the District of Columbia has adopted provisions they believe comply with...
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01/29/2020
IT and Sales Tax…Assisting the IT Department with its ROI
Staffing and IT are typically the largest administrative cost for companies. Recent developments and innovations, like cloud computing and business process as a service (BPAS), are continuing to drive...
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