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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. States expected to be hit hardest by falling sales tax revenue are Idaho, South Dakota, Louisiana, South Carolina and Florida.

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Half a dozen ways to mismanage sales tax | TaxConnex

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Your system also needs to correctly calculate and account for tax rates at a local level, which can a complication especially in home rule states like Louisiana and Colorado. Audits Thankfully, you may never go through a sales tax audit. On portals you’ll also find information on other taxes, such as Washington’s B+O tax.

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Four years since Wayfair: A trend takes hold

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Companies also wondered if they were collecting and remitting the correct sales tax – and if they were at risk for audit. California had sent letters to Amazon sellers saying that they may owe years of uncollected sales taxes and be facing audits. When would states intensify audits? More states promised similar actions.

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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. After initial incentives from South Carolina for an Amazon investment in fulfillment centers 13 years ago, the company was to have begun collecting South Carolina sales tax in 2016.

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Do you really understand economic nexus for sales tax?

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Louisiana worked to streamline its notoriously confusing sales tax environment; and Kansas?set Now that the pandemic helped them discover just how lucrative sales tax can be, states and jurisdictions are also intensifying sales tax investigations and audits. Illinois began requiring remote sellers with economic nexus?and

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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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What's new in July for state sales and use taxes

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Louisiana – a state with not only the highest combined tax rate but an infamously complex sales tax compliance structure – is taking steps to address the latter. Three new laws aim to give the Louisiana Sales and Use Tax Commission for Remote Sellers more authority and centralizing sales tax. Path to simplicity. Free for all.

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