Sales Tax
Gail Cole
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.
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Sales Tax
Cities Look to Tax Online Streaming Services
Transitioning from cable to streaming services can increase choice and reduce costs for consumers, but the more people cut the cord, the less tax revenue local governments receive. That’s the crux of ongoing David-versus-Goliath-style battles in Texas ...
Sales Tax
West Virginia Imposes Sales Tax on Streaming Services
Benefits
Top Trends in State Sales Taxes and Policies
Change is afoot as we come to the end of 2021. As COVID-19 relaxes its stranglehold on the United States, states are considering how tax policies can be adjusted to help mitigate the worst effects of future crises.
Sales Tax
Missouri Becomes Last Sales Tax State to Adopt Wayfair Legislation
On June 30, 2021, Missouri became the last state with a sales tax to require out-of-state sellers and marketplace facilitators to collect and remit sales and use tax. It’s been a long time coming.
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Wayfair Dustup in Kansas Ends with New Economic Nexus Threshold and Marketplace Facilitator Law
Lawmakers in Kansas gathered May 3, 2021, to start finalizing the state budget and attempt to override several gubernatorial vetoes. Shortly after convening, they succeeded in overriding the veto on Senate Bill 50, which requires marketplace ...
Small Business
Florida Enacts New Sales Tax Laws Impacting Nexus and Marketplace Facilitators
Out-of-state sellers and marketplace providers will have to start collecting Florida sales and use tax on July 1, 2021. After years of discussion and failed attempts, Florida has enacted an economic nexus and marketplace facilitator law.
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States Start Taxing Digital Advertising
Digital advertising taxes have been introduced in Connecticut, Indiana, Montana, New York, and Washington, though the Montana measure has already been tabled.
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Will Digital Advertising Taxes Spread in 2021?
As Maryland prepares to enforce the first digital advertising tax in the nation, Massachusetts and several other states are pursuing digital advertising taxes of their own.
Benefits
Georgia May Start Taxing Digital Products in July
Lawmakers in Georgia are looking to extend the state’s sales and use tax to digital goods and services. If House Bill 594 is enacted as written, audiovisual works, electronic books, video games, and a host of other digital products and services would ...
Accounting
Virginia Gives Sales Tax Exemption to Facemasks, PPE to Help Fight Covid
Virginia has adopted a temporary sales tax exemption for personal protective equipment. Lawmakers hope it will encourage Virginia businesses to adhere to the measures necessary to control, prevent, and mitigate spread of the coronavirus.
Sales Tax
Washington State Says Attendance at Trade Shows is a Sales Tax Nexus
There’s been a lot of emphasis in recent years on the United States Supreme Court’s 2018 decision in South Dakota v. Wayfair, Inc., which allowed states to tax businesses with no physical presence in the state. However, physical presence in a state ...