Taxes December 19, 2025
2025-2026 Tax Season Guide to OBBBA Tax Law Changes – SPECIAL SERIES
This series of articles spotlights key tax issues and changes made to tax law in 2025 and the years to come as a result of the OBBBA.
August 6, 2018
Avalara Certifies 34 Technology Partner Integrations to Automate Tax Calculations and Management
These integrations enable customers of Avalara partner solutions to benefit from Avalara’s real-time calculation of applicable taxes, fees, and surcharges for billing line items. Avalara software reduces the tedium and complexity of determining taxes ...
August 6, 2018
Breaking Down Wayfair: The Client Conundrum
When it comes to complex sales tax compliance issues, your clients likely want no part of dealing with the details and making tough decisions. After all, that’s where you come in – the trusted advisor with the knowledge and expertise to provide ...
August 6, 2018
Manafort’s CPA Admits to Cooking the Books
Accountant Cindy Laporta testified that Gates had sent her backdated documents to reduce Manafort’s tax liability in support of the existence of such loans. In one instance, Laporta says that Manafort leaned on her to help when his bookkeeper wouldn’t.
August 3, 2018
Bill Would Allow IRS to License and Regulate Tax Preparers
The Protecting Taxpayers Act (S.3278) would "amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide additional protections to taxpayers," according to the official description. The bill was referred to the Senate Finance Committee. The bill is still a ...
July 31, 2018
The Wayfair Impact, Part 3: How the U.S. Supreme Court Decision Affects Remote Sellers
There is No Nexus Standard Today: In overturning Quill, by removing the physical presence requirement for sales tax nexus and upholding the South Dakota nexus standard, the Court provides specific criteria under which a state’s sales tax laws ...
July 31, 2018
The Wayfair Impact, Part 2: How the U.S. Supreme Court Decision Affects Remote Sellers
In part one, I discussed the U.S. Supreme Court’s big decision and touched on physical presence. In part two, I’ll go a step further and break down the physical presence sales tax nexus standard, as well as South Dakota’s nexus standard, as it relates...
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 27, 2018
A Tax Accountant’s Analysis of the Cannabis Industry
In 28 States and the District of Columbia, cannabis is legal in one way or another. The problem is when you are dealing with the Federal Government. Cannabis is an illegal Schedule I Narcotic. That being said, when it comes to cannabis, legal ...
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 ...