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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.
July 31, 2018
The Wayfair Impact, Part 1: How the U.S. Supreme Court Decision Affects Remote Sellers
The Supreme Court held that Quill Corp. v. North Dakota and National Bellas Hess Inc. v. Department of Revenue of Illinois – which held that a state cannot require an out-of-state seller with no physical presence in the state to collect and remit ...
July 31, 2018
The culture of a service-oriented firm is to look, listen and adapt to their clients’ needs.
Joni Johnson-Powe, principal of Taxnologi Solutions, LLC, was recently interviewed by Scott Peterson, Vice President of U.S. Tax Policy and Government Relations at Avalara. Taxnologi Solutions is a company made up of tax consultants who are skilled in ...
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...…
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.
July 20, 2018
4 States Sue IRS and Treasury Over $10,000 Local Tax Deduction Limit
The provision in the new Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) limiting itemized deductions for state and local taxes – known by the acronym of SALT – remains a sticky issue months after enactment of the law. Now four states along the eastern seaboard ...
July 19, 2018
The New Sales Tax Paradigm: SCOTUS Rules for States in Wayfair Case
In the immediate term, the case has been remanded to the South Dakota Supreme Court for further review. In other words, assuming the final review isn’t a big surprise, South Dakota will be free to enforce its existing law as presented to SCOTUS in the ...
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.
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 ...
July 12, 2018
Wolters Kluwer to Offer Live Webcast on Sales Tax Nexus Post-Wayfair
Wolters Kluwer Tax & Accounting is offering the timely live webinar, Sales Tax Nexus – Post Wayfair, hosted by internationally recognized tax expert Mark Friedlich, Esq, CPA and Senior Director Corporate Indirect Tax at Wolters Kluwer Tax & ...
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 ...
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 ...
June 22, 2018
SCOTUS Decision in S. Dakota v. Wayfair Grants States More Power on Sales Taxes
The Supreme Court has ruled the physical presence standard it upheld in Quill Corp. v. North Dakota (1992) is “unsound and incorrect.” That means states are allowed to tax businesses that don’t have a physical presence in the state.