Sales Tax

June 24, 2020 

The midyear update to Avalara's annual sales tax changes report takes stock of what’s transpired in the world of sales tax since the start of the year. It also introduces emerging trends.

Gail Cole

June 18, 2020 

Preparing and filing sales tax returns is a time-consuming and sometimes costly process. Automated solutions provide a better way for small businesses to manage their sales tax returns process by saving time, reducing ...

June 16, 2020 

Retailers large and small need to take the time to implement a tax strategy that accounts for existing and expanding e-commerce compliance challenges – if they haven’t already. The tax landscape may have changed, but there are ways to keep up.

May 12, 2020 

Staying up to date on changing sales tax laws is already an extremely difficult and daunting task for small business owners and e-commerce merchants. Now, factor in the influx of brick-and-mortar stores moving their business online due to COVID and the...

May 7, 2020 

In the best-case scenario, businesses may be able to host and attend scaled-down in-person events sometime this summer. If the virus resurges in September, as some experts believe it will, in-person events may not resume before the spring or summer of ...

April 20, 2020 

In a continued effort to slow the spread of COVID-19, local and state governments have issued orders for nonessential businesses and establishments to close their doors. These orders, combined with the lack of consumers making their way into ...

April 16, 2020 

Since so many of us are now working from home, we thought it would be appropriate to survey members of the CPA Practice Advisor community to find out what apps they are using to make working from home more effective.

April 15, 2020 

There’s a lot to learn, and not a lot of time to learn it. The business landscape is changing overnight: Another unknown may be how to handle sales tax on takeout or delivery services.

April 13, 2020 

Avalara launches the Sales Tax Risk Assessment at a time when businesses, primarily online sellers, are facing added sales tax complexity. The South Dakota v. Wayfair, Inc. ruling in June 2018 stated that given the power and prevalence of the ...

March 23, 2020 

CPA Practice Advisor Readers’ Choice Awards, now in their 16th year, give our readers the chance to spotlight the technologies they most respect and trust to provide client services, to manage their firms, and to help their clients run their businesses.

Isaac M. O'Bannon

March 17, 2020 

While Americans have long been resistant to bidets — a common feature in European toilets where jets of water clean you off instead of toilet paper — the spread of the coronavirus seems to be changing longtime views on self-washing.

March 16, 2020 

Taxing remote sales is relatively new. Since the first states established their sales tax systems in the 1930s, states have had limited taxing authority over businesses based in other states. Indeed, the Supreme Court of the United States ruled more ...

Gail Cole