article thumbnail

BerryDunn Joins Forces With Burzenski & Co. in Connecticut

CPA Practice

Top 50 accounting firm BerryDunn has merged with Connecticut-based accounting, tax, and advisory firm Burzenski & Co., The firm has offices in Arizona, Connecticut, Hawaii, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Puerto Rico, and West Virginia. effective Dec. According to the deal, Burzenski & Co. and its territories.

article thumbnail

Vitamins, supplements and sales tax – the latest

TaxConnex

The products incur sales tax in most states (Massachusetts casts an especially wide net) but are more or less exempt in Connecticut, Florida, Maryland, Michigan, New Jersey, New York, Texas, West Virginia and Wyoming.

Sales 264
Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Sales tax and accounting services

TaxConnex

Several states levy their sales tax or its equivalent on services, among them Hawaii (which has a general excise tax, or GET), and New Mexico. In recent years, Connecticut, Maryland, and California toyed with levying state sales tax on accounting services but found it a tough fight in the face of intense lobbying from accountants’ groups.

article thumbnail

App purchases and sales and use tax

TaxConnex

Hawaii and Connecticut are two other states that cast the tax net wide when it comes to software and apps. Maryland (a state famous for spearheading efforts to levy sales tax on digital advertising ) also recently broadened its sales and use tax definition to include apps. Subject to sales tax’.

Sales 246
article thumbnail

Software, SaaS and Sales Tax

TaxConnex

For instance, Connecticut taxes SaaS, but at a reduced 1% rate when sold to a business. Hawaii clarified when its general excise tax applies to software sales.; In other words, one state may tax software delivered physically and also tax SaaS but not tax software downloaded electronically. Then there are nuances within some states.

Sales 246
article thumbnail

Sales tax and Marketplaces: Who owns the responsibility?

TaxConnex

The platform currently calculates, collects and remits state sales tax on shipments to (in the order in which they began): Washington, Pennsylvania, Oklahoma, Minnesota, Iowa, Connecticut, South Carolina, South Dakota, New Jersey, the District of Columbia, New York, Idaho, Nebraska, Alabama, Arkansas, Kentucky, California, Maine, Massachusetts, North (..)

Sales 203
article thumbnail

Sales tax on shipping: latest updates

TaxConnex

Connecticut: Shipping is sales taxable if the item is. Hawaii: Incurs sales tax if the item does. Colorado: Delivery and freight charges are generally not subject to sales tax if the charges are both separable from the purchase and separately stated on the customer invoice, among other conditions.

Sales 264