Accounting

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January 14, 2019 

Sales Tax Registration 101

Once you’ve determined you have an obligation to collect sales tax in a state, registering for a sales tax permit typically entails the following steps:

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January 12, 2019 

AICPA Exec Anthony Pugliese to Take Helm of CalCPA

CEO Loretta Doon, CPA, will be retiring in June 2019. After an extensive nationwide search, the CalCPA board of directors and the foundation board of trustees have named Anthony Pugliese, CPA, CGMA, CITP, as the new incoming CEO of both organizations.

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January 12, 2019 

Small Businesses Feeling Effects of Government Shutdown

The Small Business Administration stopped processing new small business loans due to the government shutdown. Thousands of small business owners across the country are unable to receive critical funding to start and grow their businesses because ...

 How Occupancy Taxes Work

January 10, 2019 

How Occupancy Taxes Work

Transient occupancy taxes are levied on facilities that provide accommodations for customers. The obvious model is a hotel or motel. But that might be the only thing that’s obvious about these taxes. Like sales taxes, transient occupancy taxes ...

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January 10, 2019 

New Year Brings New Remote Seller Sales Tax Collection Obligations in 7 States

More than five states will require out-of-state sellers to collect and remit sales tax starting January 1, 2019: Georgia, Iowa, Nebraska, Utah, West Virginia, and Washington, D.C. That same date, new sales tax collection requirements for marketplace facilitators will take effect in Alabama. States were once prohibited from taxing sales by businesses with no physical...…

 Most Businesses Don’t Have Adequate Day-to-Day IT Support

January 10, 2019 

Most Businesses Don’t Have Adequate Day-to-Day IT Support

EVAN combats these issues with a non-traditional approach. Dubbed “The Uber for IT support,” EVAN provides modern solutions for businesses’ most pressing IT needs. EVAN diagnoses problems in less than five minutes and resolves them in an average of 33 ...

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January 8, 2019 

Kathleen Zwickert Joins Avalara Board of Directors

Zwickert was formerly Chief People Officer at NetSuite (now Oracle NetSuite), a provider of cloud-based applications, where she transformed the company’s Human Resources function through technological innovations. Prior to NetSuite, Zwickert was EVP ...

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January 8, 2019 

ITA Announces New Members

The ITA is an independent, not-for-profit, professional association of leading CPA firms, consulting firms and technology vendors whose purpose is to share information and build relationships that improve the way its member firms, and their clients, ...

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January 7, 2019 

Investors Still Want Sarbanes-Oxley

Since its enactment in 2002 in response to notorious financial scandals at Enron, WorldCom, and other corporate behemoths, the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, or SOX, has been a continuing target of criticism. And probably no provision of the law has provoked ...