Sales Tax

November 17, 2018 

Meet year-end CPE requirements from the comfort of your office. No travel, no hotels, no rushing from one session to the next. And it's free to earn up to 10 hours of CPE.

November 12, 2018 

Business owners, officers, directors, shareholders, and employees identified as “responsible parties” can be personally liable for sales tax obligations. What is a responsible party and why is the ask so invasive?

Judy Vorndran

November 12, 2018 

Previously, businesses were only required to collect sales tax in states where they operate physically. Some major online retailers like Amazon were already collecting sales tax nationwide, but many small- to mid-sized businesses were not to maintain ...

November 5, 2018 

Starting January 1, 2019, online marketplace eBay will collect and remit Minnesota sales tax on behalf of out-of-state sellers making sales in the state. However, Minnesota-based eBay sellers will still be responsible for collecting and remitting ...

October 24, 2018 

VPTax is owned and operated by experts drawn from senior level positions at the Big 4 accounting firms. By leveraging proprietary software applications and in-house expertise, VPTax delivers superior quality at prices far below the competition.

October 15, 2018 

Everybody’s got to live somewhere, and once there, we’ve got all kinds of issues to deal with including security, renovation, repairs, maintenance, design, and so on. If you haven’t settled yet, then there’s the additional issue of home searching.

Gail Perry

October 15, 2018 

Why Accounting Firms Should Niche in the Medical Cannabis Industry By Richard Roppa In case you haven’t noticed yet, the medical marijuana industry is growing fast. No matter your position on the medical and recreational use of marijuana stands, you should be paying attention to the explosive growth and needs of this industry because… the...…

October 15, 2018 

Historically, most states exempted services from sales tax – for a good reason: When states first began to levy these taxes around 1930, people spent more of their money on tangible goods. However, according to the Bureau of Economic Analysis, those ...

Mike Plaster

October 15, 2018 

Many states are likely to move quickly to impose taxes (some already have). But it could take time for things to play out. For the moment, the Supreme Court’s decision applies only to South Dakota’s tax on internet retailers.

Anjum Tunuli

October 8, 2018 

Avalara launched the new sales tax registration and business licensing service at a time when businesses, especially online sellers, need it most. The South Dakota v. Wayfair, Inc. ruling in June 2018 upended decades of established sales tax law.

September 25, 2018 

Online marketplace eBay has announced it will collect and remit sales and use tax on behalf of sellers in three states next year: Washington starting January 1, 2019, and Oklahoma and Pennsylvania as of July 1, 2019. That list is likely to grow as ...

September 21, 2018 

In a recent interview with Avalara, Jennifer Kolterman, CPA, a director at Hutchinson and Bloodgood LLP in the accounting firm’s San Diego, Calif., office, discussed how she and the firm maintain success in the accounting profession.