Small Business June 11, 2026
States are Getting Creative as Tax Policy Shifts at Record Speed, Says Avalara Report
Lawmakers are increasingly expanding the sales tax base to encompass new categories of goods and services.
March 18, 2022
Corvee Adds State and Local Tax (SALT) Planning
Corvee, a software and solutions company serving tax and accounting firms, has launcehd state and local tax planning within the company’s award-winning tax planning product. Now, firms can quickly and easily analyze client tax scenarios at the federal ...
February 21, 2022
Avalara Announces 20 Newly Certified Integrations into Business Applications
These integrations enable customers of Avalara partner solutions to benefit from Avalara’s real-time calculation of applicable taxes for billing line items. Avalara software reduces the tedium and complexity of determining taxes for millions of ...
February 8, 2022
Dooap Integrates Vertex Tax Compliance Solution with its Accounts Payable Automation
With this new Vertex integration, Dynamics 365 Finance customers now have the option of implementing Dynamics 365 Finance, AP automation and tax compliance all in one.
February 7, 2022
How Marketplace Facilitators Can Navigate Tax Compliance in 2022
Getting tax wrong can be costly for any business, but particularly for marketplace facilitators with a high volume of sales. Unless a marketplace facilitator can demonstrate that a failure to collect and remit applicable taxes was due to receiving ...
February 7, 2022
States Look at Taxing Text Messaging
Tax statutes written decades ago likely didn’t contemplate these sorts of services. That said, the plain language in many state and local communication tax statutes often has basic wording around the taxable terms of SMS and messaging and may not ...
February 4, 2022
A Look into the Tax Department of the Future
By focusing on the shifting responsibilities of the tax workforce along with the integration of tax technology, businesses can plan for the tax department of the future.
February 2, 2022
State-by-State Sales Tax Holidays for 2022
A sales tax holiday is a limited time period during which some normally taxable products are exempt from sales tax. Approximately 17 states provide one or more sales tax holidays each year; the precise number fluctuates because some states adopt new ...
January 26, 2022
States Look at Taxing the Metaverse, But What is It?
Sales transactions are presumed taxable in states with a sales tax (unless there’s a specific exemption or exclusion), most states haven’t yet clarified which sales tax laws apply to sales made in the metaverse. When will they start?
January 25, 2022
Massachusetts Collects More Taxes on Marijuana than Alcohol
The commonwealth collected $74.2 million in marijuana excise tax through December 2021, WCVB reported. In comparison, alcohol collected $51.3 million.
January 25, 2022
States Want Online Marketplaces to Police for Stolen Goods
To help prevent someone from selling stolen goods on a marketplace, California and several other states want marketplaces to obtain and share the names and contact information of high-volume marketplace sellers.
January 25, 2022
More Taxation on Services Expected this Year
Though the United States economy is “dominated by services-oriented companies,” most states currently tax only select services, if any. That could change in 2022: Legislation seeking to tax services has been introduced in Indiana and ...
January 18, 2022
Tennessee Starts Accepting Sales Tax Exemption Certificates from Other States
The policy change results from the repeal of Tennessee’s Sales and Use Tax Rule 96, which required Tennessee suppliers to collect Tennessee sales tax on products sold to out-of-state dealers unless such dealers provided a Tennessee resale ...