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Risks of Non-Compliance

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Montgomery, Alabama: Two convenience store operators have pleaded guilty to failing to pay sales taxes. Simon Njuku, 45, of Irondale, Alabama, and Mehryar Nasseri, 44, of New Market, Alabama, each admitted to routinely underreporting their stores’ gross sales to reduce their tax bill. An inconvenient truth.

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Latest Developments in State and Local Sales Tax

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In Alabama , rising pandemic-related online shopping has been a “life saver” for the state’s municipal governments and a “financial vaccine for Alabama’s counties,” the state said. The state’s SSUT has taken in more than $309 million overall during the current fiscal year – almost double the tax generated during all of fiscal 2018-19.

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CORO Global Brings Gold Payment App To Alabama

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The company – and its gold trading app – just expanded its reach in the United States with the addition of a license to operate in Alabama. The Alabama Securities Commission on Tuesday (Nov. The future is looking a bit more golden for CORO Global. App users can trade in U.S.

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What’s new in sales tax?

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It did, but the South Carolina Department of Revenue later audited Amazon and found that it had failed to adequately tax sales by third-party merchants. District judge in Alabama has declared the CTA unconstitutional, at least in the narrow context of the plaintiffs on the case on which he ruled. Auditors slapped Amazon with some $12.5

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2024: What’s coming up in sales tax

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Weaker state revenue The kind of year it’s going to be for state coffers could greatly influence such future sales tax trends as new levies, tougher nexus thresholds and intensifying audits. If so, watch out for 2024. Colorado also now has a task force charged with simplifying its sales tax system – a special challenge in a home rule state.

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Avalara Report Shows Sales Tax Simplification Efforts, States Eyeing AI to Shore Up Audit Teams, and E-Invoicing Growth in 2025

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A handful of home rule states Colorado, Alabama, Louisiana, Arizona, and Alaska are making moves toward simplification. Still, businesses selling into home rule states continue to face an onerous tax compliance burden.

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As Wayfair turns 6, what’s happening with economic nexus? (part 1)

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In states like Alabama, as we’ll see, the effort continues.) New tax-related data, including transactions and filing information, can help troubleshoot reconciliations, improve forecasts and head off problems that could eventually lead to a sales tax audit (if and when AI fulfills its current hype, that is.) Clearer tax landscape?