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Why are some states’ sale taxes higher than others?

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When you sell across multiple states – or even within various localities in a single state – one striking observation emerges: the consistent inconsistency of sales tax rates. The federal income tax has just seven brackets to cover the whole span of what somebody can make. Why do sales tax rates have to be so complex?

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Alaska moves toward statewide sales tax

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Alaska Gov. Mike Dunleavy is reportedly preparing to introduce a sales tax as part of a long-term budget plan for the state. Five states don’t have a statewide sales tax: New Hampshire, Oregon, Montana, Alaska and Delaware (aka the “NOMAD” states). Vermont was the last state to adopt a sales tax, in 1969.

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Monthly State Sales and Use Tax Update

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There are currently five states with no state-level sales tax. Alaska has long heard rumblings of a statewide sales tax. First came the state’s Remote Seller Sales Tax Commission of municipalities banding together to tax sales. In Georgia , tax collections were up 12.7% The gross sales tax take finished 15.9%

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Selling Into States with Unusual Sales Tax Laws

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If you sell into the handful of states that don’t have nexus or don’t have a general sales tax, you might think you’re home free when it comes to obligations to remit sales tax. Forty-five states and the District of Columbia have a statewide sales tax. Alaska, Delaware, Montana, New Hampshire and Oregon do not.

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How SUI and State Income Taxes Affect Small Businesses

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Inevitably, your clients with growing businesses will want to hire, so you’ll be better able to help them if you have a clear understanding of the differences between SUI (state unemployment insurance) and SIT (state income tax) and how they affect your clients’ businesses. What is SIT Tax?

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Four years since Wayfair: A trend takes hold

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Among states without a sales tax, Alaska municipalities were banding together to administer local sales taxes on remote commerce. Of all states with a sales tax, only Florida and Missouri remained holdouts when it came to enforcing economic nexus for out-of-state sellers. Wayfair tax obligations here to stay.

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Future sales tax trends

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Lawmakers in Louisiana, however, opted to give their state one of the highest combined sales taxes in the nation by passing simultaneous tax cuts on personal and corporate income tax and hiking the states sales tax to 5% (at least for the rest of this decade). Dropping thresholds.

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