Sales Tax

September 28, 2015 

Self-employed clients are innovative, entrepreneurial and like taking a lot of risk, but probably aren’t paying much attention to their back-office operations, including the somewhat complicated issue of sales tax.

Marshal Kushniruk

September 22, 2015 

Cloud tax solutions provider Avalara has launched a new automated sales tax rates and returns service for Xero customers. The integration provides tax rate data in real time, enabling quick and automatic access for inclusion in customer invoices.

September 15, 2015 

The Avalara Sales Tax Compliance App provides an automated sales tax calculation and return filings compliance solution within the familiar QBO interface. It’s cloud-based and always up to date, ensuring that sales tax rate, rule and boundary ...

September 15, 2015 

Navient has been awarded a performance-based contract from the Indiana Department of Revenue. Under the terms of the contract, Navient will assist with the Tax Amnesty 2015 program, which allows taxpayers who have past-due taxes a limited-time ...

August 24, 2015 

The system includes a new web-based interface and more search options and the ability to receive automatic delivery of access links to the latest sales tax rates, helping provide accurate sales and use tax rates when and where they are needed.

August 20, 2015 

No matter how you personally feel on the subject, the reality is that legal Cannabis is becoming a booming business, ripe with opportunities for an accounting practice to work and consult with businesses in the marketplace on a full range of tax ...

August 14, 2015 

Large corporations with armies of attorneys and accountants excel at taking advantage of tax credits and finding cost saving elements within a specific industry. Yet smaller companies tend to self-censor, assuming they don’t qualify.

Gail Cole

August 14, 2015 

By their nature, accountants often eschew promoting themselves and their services. For years we were told it was ethically improper to promote ourselves, but in the present day, it's very common for accountants to take the lead in self-promotion.

Gail Perry

August 4, 2015 

The U.S. average combined sales tax rate shrunk marginally in the second quarter despite a 30 percent increase in new local indirect taxes, according to the latest ONESOURCE Indirect Tax report from Thomson Reuters.

July 30, 2015 

The ONESOURCE Indirect Tax engine technology automatically provides estimates as items are placed into the hybris order. Detailed tax calculations are provided at the time of checkout, and users can keep track of tax liabilities for downstream compliance.

July 13, 2015 

What should you be doing in your state and local tax practice this month? Here's your SALT checklist for March.

July 1, 2015 

Wolters Kluwer Tax & Accounting has signed and completed an agreement to acquire SureTax, one of the most comprehensive and technologically advanced tax calculation engines available in the U.S. market.