TaxConnex

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Usually all retail sales of tangible personal property (TPP) are taxable, but many states have started to tax services. Who the customer is and what they’ll use the TPP for can create a sales tax exclusion, too, such as when selling to a church or government agency. They also take the burden of sales tax obligation off the seller.

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TaxConnex

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Sales tax compliance depends on many factors. One of the most important – and the most incessantly changing – is the tax rates that America’s thousands of jurisdictions impose. Exemptions can also seem whimsical: New York charges different sales tax on a bagel that’s sold as-is or has been toasted and smeared with cream cheese.

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TaxConnex

AUGUST 1, 2024

If it seems like jurisdictions just ceaselessly add additional sales tax laws, statutes and restrictions, recent news out of three states should be refreshing. New Jersey , in a move seemingly counter to a nationwide trend, has repealed its annual sales tax holiday for certain school supplies and sport or recreational equipment.

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TaxConnex

MAY 7, 2024

There’s always something changing in the world of tax, especially sales tax. A bill that would raise the online sales tax in Alabama is progressing with state lawmakers. The current Alabama sales tax is 8% for online purchases, the same as for purchases at the state’s brick-and-mortar stores. Leveling the field.

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TaxConnex

AUGUST 15, 2024

General tax laws are strange. Maybe sales tax laws make more sense? In Florida, you can get a tax break for displaying a cow on your property. You can get a big tax break in New Mexico if you just live to 100. Louisiana lets small private aircrafts soar tax-free, and Connecticut extends that to bigger planes.

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TaxConnex

JULY 20, 2021

There’s no way to sugarcoat it: Sales tax obligations are already difficult at the state level, but when you bring it down to local jurisdictions, or home rule jurisdictions, you get the next level of complexity. Setting sales taxes laws often fall under that umbrella. Setting sales taxes laws often fall under that umbrella.

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TaxConnex

JUNE 9, 2022

What’s new in May for state sales and use taxes. There’s always something changing in the world of tax, especially sales tax. Exempting groceries from sales tax as American families struggle with inflation and other economic woes is politically tempting. million in taxes a year on the sale of groceries.

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TaxConnex

JUNE 15, 2023

Call it a sales tax or a delivery fee of 27 cents. Just don’t call Colorado the only state implementing or considering such a surcharge on online sales: New York lawmakers will soon debate their own and Minnesota’s kicks in next year. Buddy, can you spare a quarter? There are other exemptions.

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TaxConnex

JUNE 11, 2024

Do you need a state sales tax permit? How about a sales tax license? How about a sales tax certificate of authority? Collecting and remitting sales tax after you hit economic or physical nexus in a state comes with a lot of questions – and you usually answer no small number of questions to register for sales tax.

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TaxConnex

APRIL 19, 2022

Sales tax has a universe of changing conditions. What are the sales tax ramifications? has possibly the most complex sales tax regime. Each state sets its own sales tax rules, often with widely varying approaches. Each state sets its own sales tax rules, often with widely varying approaches. Enter taxes.

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TaxConnex

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

You may think that if you do not have physical or economic tax nexus in a state, you do not have any tax obligations. You can still have obligations to the certain tax authorit ies in a state even where you do not have nexus and are not required to collect and remit sales tax in the state. The reason?

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TaxConnex

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

It’s also safe to say that its storyline of repetition seems to echo what you must do, over and over and over, to comply with sales tax laws. It’s a doozy! – “Needlenose Ned” Ryerson There are multiple steps to make sure your sales tax compliance works well. The days you get over and over with sales tax are deadline days.

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TaxConnex

AUGUST 30, 2022

Many tech companies consider themselves a service provider exempt from sales and use tax. But the 2018 Wayfair decision expanded the definition of nexus and and more of these businesses are now subject to sales and use tax collection, including on one of their product staples: apps. What about the sales tax?

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TaxConnex

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Sales tax, unlike other types of taxes, has many deadlines, not once or twice a year, but often every month and it doesn’t fall on the same day for every business, or state. Not to mention, the process of reporting sales tax and the amount of information required on each return varies with each state and local jurisdiction.

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TaxConnex

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

There’s always something changing or new going on in the world of tax, especially sales tax. In Alabama , tax licenses – including for sales tax, sellers use tax and the simplified sellers use tax – must be renewed annually as of Nov. New York City tax revenues in March and April fell $1.15

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TaxConnex

JANUARY 11, 2022

It’s one of the most important aspects of an online business – and one of the wackiest when trying to determine whether sales tax applies or not. Many states say that when the contents of a shipment are taxable, so is the shipping cost; similarly, when items in a shipment are exempt from sales tax, so is the cost of shipping.

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TaxConnex

MAY 19, 2022

Given the complexity that already exists regarding sales tax, it’d be great if states were the only jurisdictions that levied them. Local sales are becoming an increasing burden for online sellers as cities, counties and towns nationwide constantly tinker with their own sales taxes and other jurisdictions create new economic nexus rules.

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TaxConnex

JANUARY 18, 2024

What’s the latest brewing today in sales tax? Physical nexus standards – such as having offices, staff or inventory in a state – had long mandated that retailers had to collect and remit a state’s sales tax. Of Alaska’s 162 municipal governments, approximately 110 already levy some variety of sales tax.)

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TaxConnex

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

If your business sells software or software-as-a-service (SaaS), you deal with one of the most complex sales tax situations, potentially without even realizing it. Your sales tax obligation and liability begin with where you have nexus , a connection between your company and a taxing authority or jurisdiction.

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TaxConnex

MARCH 10, 2022

But what exactly is economic nexus – and, more importantly, have you kept up with its constant changes in the sales tax realm? Sales tax nexus is the connection your business has with a state or local taxing jurisdiction. It can be physical in the form of one of your offices actually being in a state or other tax jurisdiction.

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TaxConnex

JANUARY 3, 2023

Next summer will mark five years since the Supreme Court ignited economic sales tax nexus with the South Dakota v. Many businesses are still trying to figure out how to manage the resulting obligations, but one thing’s clear: Now every state with a sales tax has economic nexus. Wayfair, Inc et al decision. Stay tuned.

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TaxConnex

MARCH 22, 2022

Collecting and remitting sales tax to states and other tax jurisdictions is time consuming and can be expensive. Somebody can: the states and tax jurisdictions themselves. collection discount to help with the costs of managing sales tax.?If Slightly more than half the states offer various discounts for sales tax filers.

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CPA Practice

MAY 23, 2023

The heyday of marijuana sales in Colorado — back in 2020 when recreational and medical sales topped out at a combined $226 million — is a distant memory, as the state’s dispensaries struggle through an economic downturn, with sales plummeting and small businesses foundering. Colorado ranked as the No. The market’s just bad.

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CPA Practice

APRIL 10, 2023

By Gail Cole A bill making its way through the Colorado General Assembly could help all businesses, and especially small businesses, comply with the retail delivery fee (RDF) that took effect July 1, 2022. What is the Colorado retail delivery fee? Benefits to the state The retail delivery fee benefits Colorado in a few ways.

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TaxConnex

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

A job as intimidating as setting up a system to handle your sales tax obligations can be a lot easier if you have an idea how long it will take. As with most aspects of sales tax, there are no fixed answers, but we can give you an idea. Part of your decision in this case rests with how long you’ve had sales tax exposure.

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TaxConnex

JANUARY 2, 2025

Every new year brings a ton of developments in all varieties of tax. Sales tax driven by burgeoning eCommerce, dynamic kinds of nexus and a steam of new tech and products that jurisdictions see as lush sources of revenue again has more than its share of trends on tap for 2025. More tax in more states. Heres a look at a few.

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TaxConnex

JULY 12, 2022

There’s always something changing in the world of tax, especially sales tax. Colorado will begin imposing a 27-cent fee on every retail delivery made by motor vehicle to a destination in the state, beginning July 1. its Sales Tax Bulletin No. Here’s a review of some of the recent changes and updates. Indiana modified?its

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TaxConnex

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

In a little more than three years since the Supreme Court’s Wayfair decision , multi-state sales tax has gone from a simple obligation for some companies that were based solely in one state to a nightmare of complying with 50 different states’ sales tax rules. Also with some states, you must specify the tax you’re registering for (e.g.,

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TaxConnex

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

There’s always something changing in the world of tax, especially sales tax. ZIP it: The Streamlined Sales Tax Governing Board has requested input on changing the Streamlined Agreement’s rules on sourcing sales of digital goods when purchasers don’t provide certain address details. State Updates. California Gov.

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TaxConnex

JULY 15, 2021

There’s always something changing in the world of tax, especially sales tax. Colorado lawmakers have adopted SB21-282 , which extends the exception to destination sourcing requirements; the exception applies only to businesses with less than $100,000 in retail sales. As of Feb. Illinois lawmakers have passed S.B.

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TaxConnex

JUNE 8, 2021

There’s always something changing in the world of tax, especially sales tax. They were the last two states with a sales tax to set up such requirements.). The bill requires the collection and remittance of sales and compensating use tax by most marketplace facilitators beginning July 1. And 2021 continues to prove that.

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TaxConnex

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

There’s always something changing in the world of tax, especially sales tax. State sales tax revenues and their local portions are reported up from Auburn, N.Y., to Colorado Springs, Colo., Many other states are finding more late-2021 sales tax revenue to funnel toward local governments. Oh Joy, oh revenue!

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TaxConnex

AUGUST 25, 2022

In a field that changes as fast as sales tax, it’s a necessity. You generally have three options to address your sales tax compliance obligation: try to manage everything in-house; outsource to an experienced provider; or do nothing and roll the dice. This one of the key steps to complying with sales and use tax laws nationwide.

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Patriot Software

OCTOBER 13, 2022

A handful of cities in Colorado have a local tax called an occupational privilege tax. If you’re an employer in Colorado, it’s important to know if you owe the occupational privilege tax and what your city requirements are. What is occupational privilege tax? Both employees and employers owe it.

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TaxConnex

APRIL 4, 2024

Now, almost six years after the landmark Wayfair case ignited sales tax obligations for more remote sellers, one of those numbers might be falling out of favor. Since the Supreme Court’s decision in 2018, almost all states with economic nexus opted to have dollar volume of sales as one trigger for sales tax obligations.

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Accounting Today

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

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TaxConnex

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

One state’s efforts to join the Sales and Use Tax System (SUTS) and another state’s lawsuit against a world-famous auction house highlight recent challenges in the sales tax world. 5 in Colorado , more than half (55 percent) of home-rule self-collecting municipalities had signed the agreement and were onboarding the system.

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