Gail is a sales tax expert with a penchant for digging through the depths of BOE sites and discovering and reporting rate changes across the country.
March 11, 2018
The explosion of ecommerce has exacerbated an issue that’s long rankled many states: their inability to tax out-of-state businesses making sales within their borders. States have challenged this physical presence limitation numerous times but the ...
February 6, 2018
Over the centuries, accountants have been fashionistas, inventors, and spies. They fight crime, write books, and uphold the law. The more one learns about accountants, the more surprises one uncovers. Secret lives, indeed.
January 13, 2018
The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to consider a case that has the potential to change how states can tax sales by ecommerce merchants and other out-of-state sellers. The case, South Dakota v. Wayfair, Inc., challenges the Court's decision in Quill Corp. v
January 7, 2018
Many small and mid-size businesses hire accountants and bookkeepers with the expectation they’ll help prevent an audit. Unfortunately, you can’t guarantee your clients won’t be audited for sales and use tax. No one can: States need sales and use tax ...
April 25, 2017
It’s been 38 years since a total eclipse of the sun has been visible from all 48 contiguous United States, so the one set to occur August 21, 2017, is a big deal. It’s been on the calendars of eclipse watchers for years, if not decades.
December 14, 2016
Courts to date have disagreed on this matter. An administrative law judgment initially upheld the department’s audit findings in March 2013. The Fourth District Court of Appeals then found the state to have “impermissibly burdened interstate commerce ...
November 1, 2016
If the court had ruled the Compact was a valid choice regardless of state law, then every state would have repealed it. As it stands, the relevance of the Compact is likely to be revisited once all states use only sales to apportion income ...
September 19, 2016
Delivery charges don’t just pertain to food. They can be slapped on anything a business sends to a consumer, from a slim book of poetry to a multi-million dollar yacht.
August 17, 2016
Tired of Congressional inactivity on internet sales tax, a growing number of states have enacted legislation enabling them to tax sales made by out-of-state sellers. The majority of these laws maintain that a connection between a state and seller is ...
July 31, 2016
Lures aren’t the only way to spend real money in the Pokémon world. Although free to play, “Players can spend real money on PokéCoins, the in-game currency of Pokémon Go.” 99 cents gets you 100 PokéCoins; $99.99 buys you 14,500. According to developer ...
July 22, 2016
There have been a number of red-letter changes to date in 2016, most notably with respect to state sales tax rates, eliminating exemptions, and remote sales tax laws. More are sure to follow during the second half of the year.
June 20, 2016
As the middle of the year approaches, it’s worth taking stock of remote sales tax. Numerous states have enacted or are considering legislation enabling them to collect sales and use tax revenue from remote retailers lacking a physical presence in the ...
