Sales Tax

 Sales Taxes: States with South Dakota–Style Economic Nexus Laws

July 31, 2018 

Sales Taxes: States with South Dakota–Style Economic Nexus Laws

  By Scott Peterson, Avalara’s Vice President of U.S. Tax Policy and Government Relations In the case of South Dakota v. Wayfair, Inc. (decided on June 21, 2018), the Supreme Court of the United States overturned the rule that a state cannot tax a business unless it has a physical presence in the state. The...…

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 How a Debt of $2,700 Can Get a Business Seized

July 31, 2018 

How a Debt of $2,700 Can Get a Business Seized

Keeping your clients out of sales tax trouble and in compliance are very important, of course, but if clients slip up without your knowledge and run late on tax payments, one thing they may never see coming is a seizure of property.

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July 18, 2018 

Sales and Use Tax Explained: A Few Minutes With Brian Weaver

Recently, Avalara interviewed tax and technology consultant Brian Weaver, managing partner of Brian Weaver Consulting LLC, a firm serving client needs in transaction taxes, tax technology and taxation systems, and Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) compliance.

 Will E-commerce Websites Need to Post a Sales Tax Bond?

July 16, 2018 

Will E-commerce Websites Need to Post a Sales Tax Bond?

While the South Dakota law which lead to the Supreme Court ruling envisions a $100,000 annual sales threshold, multiple large U.S. businesses as well as organizations such as the National Taxpayers Union Foundation have expressed their reservations or ...

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July 12, 2018 

A Look at Sales Taxes: Post-Wayfair Ruling

There used to be a time when brick and mortar stores thought they were losing ground to upstarts like Amazon, who initially didn’t charge sales tax because Amazon didn’t have a physical presence in the state where the sale was made. Eventually Amazon ...

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July 3, 2018 

Deep Dive Analysis of the Supreme Court’s Sales Tax Ruling

The Court explicitly rejected the requirement that a remote seller must have a physical presence in a state before that state or its localities could require sales tax collection. A majority of the Court swept aside the rules that guided this area of ...