Sales Tax

June 18, 2020 

Preparing and filing sales tax returns is a time-consuming and sometimes costly process. Automated solutions provide a better way for small businesses to manage their sales tax returns process by saving time, reducing ...

June 17, 2020 

Avalara, Inc. has added a new artificial intelligence (AI)-based tax classification tool that allows Avalara AvaTax users to quickly and efficiently classify their products or services to aid in taxability determinations for ...

June 16, 2020 

Retailers large and small need to take the time to implement a tax strategy that accounts for existing and expanding e-commerce compliance challenges – if they haven’t already. The tax landscape may have changed, but there are ways to keep up.

June 1, 2020 

Avalara Consumer Use offers businesses a solution that addresses every step of the consumer use tax self-assessment process, including user-defined rules, tax calculation, review, allocation, accrual, and documentation.

May 26, 2020 

The European Commission (EC) recently moved to postpone the implementation of new value added tax (VAT) e-commerce regulations by six months. While that might be a relief for businesses across the globe fighting to stay solvent during the coronavirus ...

May 12, 2020 

Staying up to date on changing sales tax laws is already an extremely difficult and daunting task for small business owners and e-commerce merchants. Now, factor in the influx of brick-and-mortar stores moving their business online due to COVID and the...

May 12, 2020 

At the start of April, individuals and organizations were just coming to terms with stay-at-home orders and closures of nonessential businesses. As states start to relax those provisions, businesses are beginning to prepare for what comes next. Read on to

Gail Cole

May 12, 2020 

While it can be easy for companies to get caught up in a whirlwind of widespread adoption and increased revenue, it’s also important to keep tax liabilities top of mind. Streaming taxes are evolving in real time.

May 7, 2020 

In the best-case scenario, businesses may be able to host and attend scaled-down in-person events sometime this summer. If the virus resurges in September, as some experts believe it will, in-person events may not resume before the spring or summer of ...

April 20, 2020 

The new sales tax obligation applies to marketplace facilitators with a physical presence in Georgia, and those with at least $100,000 in direct and indirect sales into the state. Georgia defines a “marketplace facilitator” as a person that ...

April 20, 2020 

In a continued effort to slow the spread of COVID-19, local and state governments have issued orders for nonessential businesses and establishments to close their doors. These orders, combined with the lack of consumers making their way into ...

April 16, 2020 

Since so many of us are now working from home, we thought it would be appropriate to survey members of the CPA Practice Advisor community to find out what apps they are using to make working from home more effective.