State and Local Taxes February 20, 2026
Which States Have the Highest Taxes?
"Tax burden" measures the proportion of total personal income that residents pay toward state and local taxes. And it’s not uniform across the U.S. either.
June 13, 2016
2016 Review of BNA Sales Tax Rates
BNA Sales and Use Tax Rates and Sales and Use Tax Forms are both available online for easy anytime/anywhere access. With the ability to support multiple business entities, both products are truly designed for the tax professional, though businesses ...
June 13, 2016
2016 Review of Avalara TrustFile
TrustFile from Avalara, is an ideal fit for small businesses and e-commerce merchants looking for an automated way to process, fill, and file tax forms for all 50 states. TrustFile works closely with AvaTax to calculate accurate sales and use tax ...
June 13, 2016
2016 Reviews of Sales and Use Tax Systems
With the complicated rules, and the inordinate amount of time it would take today’s business owner to research and implement tax rates for cities, counties, states, and even countries, it’s imperative that today’s business owners invest in a software ...
June 13, 2016
States Could Improve Business Tax Compliance By Sharing Data
Business tax non-compliance is a problem that plagues states across the U.S., but could be improved if states were able to more easily share data, according to new research by the Governing Institute. The survey of tax and revenue officials across 29 ...
April 25, 2016
State Tax Nexus Getting More Complex
The state tax arena is fraught with variation, complexity, confusion and ambiguity, which has major implications for U.S. corporations, according to findings from Bloomberg BNA’s 2016 Survey of State Tax Departments, conducted for the 16th consecutive ...
March 31, 2016
New Guidance Focuses on Puerto Rico VAT
This coverage comes at a crucial time. On June 1, 2016, Puerto Rico will become the first U.S. jurisdiction to adopt a VAT to replace its sales and use tax regime. The transition to this new scheme began in 2015 and has been controversial.
March 14, 2016
The Sticky Business of Excise and Sales Tax Requirements
There are a variety of industries that find themselves with a unique tax conundrum…they are required to calculate and file both sales and excise taxes to run their day-to-day business. So, what’s the big deal?
February 17, 2016
February in the SALT Practice: Client Meetings
It's February and you're in the heart of busy season. Starting a new process for organizing and monitoring state and local tax chores and obligations is really not feasible at this point in time, but there are some best practices you can employ that ...
January 27, 2016
Despite Snow, Maryland CPAs Turn Out For Legislative Day
Maryland CPAs have chosen to be active participants rather than passive recipients as more than 130 CPAs showed up for the annual CPA Day in Annapolis event hosted by the Maryland Association of CPAs. It was their 115th year advocating for the CPA profess
December 8, 2015
New Program Helps Accounting Firms Specialize in Sales & Use Tax Compliance
One of the key features of the program, announced here at CPA.com’s Digital CPA Conference, is a single accountant console where firms can monitor client sales and use tax compliance from tax calculation to returns generation and form filing.
November 19, 2015
State and Local Sales Taxes Increase Across U.S.
The U.S. average combined sales tax rate increased marginally in the third quarter with an increase in the number of indirect tax changes, according to the latest ONESOURCE Indirect Tax report from Thomson Reuters.
November 19, 2015
Good News For Taxpayers Filing a Non-Resident State Income Tax Return
As it stands now, each state has different thresholds in place for the amount of time an employee must work in the state before needing to file a non-resident tax return. Requirements run the gamut from one day to 60 days, and in some cases, taxation ...