TaxConnex

MAY 6, 2021

There’s always something changing in the world of tax, especially sales tax. In the trendiest sales tax news (aside, of course, from Florida finally passing economic nexus legislation), Connecticut lawmakers have proposed a digital advertising services tax similar, experts say, to one recently enacted in Maryland.

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TaxConnex

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

You won’t find too many more confusing sales tax scenarios than the one involving dietary supplements. For purposes of sales tax, sometimes supplements and vitamins are considered drugs (prescription or not), sometimes groceries or food, sometimes tangible personal property – and sometimes not. Sales tax isn’t getting any easier.

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CPA Practice

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Top 50 accounting firm BerryDunn has merged with Connecticut-based accounting, tax, and advisory firm Burzenski & Co., Founded in 1974, Portland, ME-based BerryDunn provides assurance, tax, and consulting services to businesses, nonprofits, and government agencies throughout the U.S. effective Dec. and its territories.

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TaxConnex

MARCH 1, 2022

It’s that time of year again when everyone suddenly thinks about preparing their income taxes. But does tax preparation incur sales taxes – and if it does, where and how? For some 90 years, states have levied sales tax on goods (West Virginia was the first to do so , in 1921). Sourcing is huge.

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TaxConnex

MAY 27, 2021

Taking advantage of sales and use tax exemptions can save your business money and headaches. In general, exemptions are statutory exceptions eliminating the need for the retailer or business to collect sales tax on a particular transaction or on all transactions with a customer. Necessary paperwork for sales tax exemptions.

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CPA Practice

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

3, 2025, to submit a variety of tax filings and payments, the Internal Revenue Service announced on Tuesday. The extended deadlines are limited to flood-damaged areas of Fairfield, New Haven and Litchfield counties in Connecticut, as well as Suffolk County in New York that sustained damage in the historic Aug. 18 and Feb.

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TaxConnex

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

Ecommerce couldn’t exist without shipping (and probably not without shipping’s partner “handling,” either), but do either incur sales tax? As is often the case in sales tax, it depends on what, how and where. Portions of packages that contain non-taxable or exempt items get a break on the tax on the S&H.

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TaxConnex

DECEMBER 10, 2020

States may be getting tougher on sales tax delinquents as the pandemic drags on and tax revenues, in many places, take hits. area company must pay back more than $95,000 after pocketing sales tax money owed to the state, according to authorities. TaxConnex provides services to become your outsourced sales tax department.

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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

MAY 10, 2022

There’s always something changing in the world of tax, especially sales tax. Florida sales tax exemptions on hurricane-preparedness items may soon encompass purchases of pet food, thanks to the lobbying of a local Girl Scout troop. has become the second state this year to expand its sales tax exemption involving gold and silver.

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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

DECEMBER 30, 2021

Sales tax in 2021, though, seemed to move in only one direction: It intensified as even more states hopped on the economic nexus bandwagon and the sales tax burden for online businesses grew. Here’s a look back at some of 2021’s biggest developments in sales tax. Other states intensified their sales tax moves.

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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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CPA Practice

AUGUST 30, 2024

29—FARMINGTON — An accountant pleaded guilty in Bridgeport Thursday to filing fraudulent tax returns for multiple years after failing to report $1.4 S Attorney’s Office for the District of Connecticut. Legowski prepared tax returns for between 400 and 500 individual clients, 50-60 businesses, the U.S. Attorney’s Office.

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TaxConnex

MAY 14, 2024

jurisdictions also involves dealing with sales tax. Responsibility to pay sales tax is based on a variety of factors, such as where the seller and buyer reside and the nature of the product being sold (some items qualify for sales tax exemptions ). On a marketplace platform, who has responsibility for the sales tax?

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TaxConnex

MARCH 3, 2022

Understanding the taxability of your company’s products or services is one of the key steps to complying with sales and use tax laws. Services continue to pop up among states’ lawmakers as a potential new source of sales tax revenue. legislation that excludes some payment processing services from tax. Recent developments.

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TaxConnex

DECEMBER 14, 2023

In sales tax calculation, you deal with the “hard” and the “less-hard.” Figuring out sales tax obligations for goods (aka, tangible personal property, or TPP) is the less-hard part; you merely have to bear in mind that every state that taxes TPP does it a little differently. States also tax services with nuance.

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TaxConnex

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Same is true for sales tax – except the word can have different meanings. For example, when it comes to sales tax, do you need to follow “destination-based” or “origin-based” rules? Right to the source “Sourcing” is important when you determine your sales tax obligations. Sourcing refers to the location where a sale is taxed.

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TaxConnex

JANUARY 7, 2021

If you were to read our 5 Steps to Sales Tax Compliance, or any guide on maintaining sales tax compliance, understanding the taxability of your products and/or services would be one of the first steps. Taxability becomes confusing with software which tends to have varying tax rules from state-to-state. Is it SaaS-based?

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TaxConnex

JANUARY 16, 2024

Then you already have one of the most complicated situations in sales tax. Your tax obligation and liability begin with where you have nexus , the connection between your company and a taxing authority or jurisdiction. These questions factor into determining whether sales tax applies.

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TaxConnex

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

Technology companies, and specifically software companies, have always had challenges related to managing sales tax. But with the proliferation of Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) as a delivery mechanism and Wayfair, the sales tax landscape has become exponentially more complex. Sales Tax Nexus. Customization and Implementation.

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TaxConnex

MARCH 9, 2023

At least three states opened this year with proposals to revamp taxes concerning digital advertising and data. Massachusetts legislators seem to be leading the way, with multiple draft bills that would adopt a digital advertising services tax on commercial data collection or the sale of personal information. The bills are in committee.

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TaxConnex

APRIL 5, 2022

Tangible personal property has historically been subject to the collection and remittance of sales tax while many services have been non-taxable (or exempt). More and more services are becoming taxable and represent a potential big wave of tax changes and updates in the years ahead. If your business sells?software

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TaxConnex

JUNE 17, 2021

Legalization of cannabis and how it would be taxed has been a discussion for many years. billion in tax revenue from legal, adult-use marijuana sales, according to one pro-legalization group. Among the first states to legalize marijuana some seven years ago, Washington collected $614 million in marijuana tax revenue last year.

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CPA Practice

JANUARY 24, 2024

(TNS) The IRS announced Monday that tax relief for individuals and businesses in flood-stricken parts of Connecticut would be made available. IRS officials announced the agency would extend its April 15 filing deadline for those taxpayers, who now have until June 17, 2024 to submit tax returns and make tax payments.

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Going Concern

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

PwC accused of interfering in Australian tax leaks probe [ Financial Times ] PwC has been accused of interfering in Australia’s political and regulatory affairs after documents revealed the Big Four accounting group warned its local firm against co-operating with investigations into a damaging tax leaks scandal without permission.

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TaxConnex

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

All hail sales tax! Taxing certain goods dates back as far as 4,000 years. Ancient Egypt taxed cooking oil, for instance. The tax was levied on a product people had to buy and were forbidden to reuse (coincidentally, the Pharaoh had a monopoly on production). Salestaxes are no exception.

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TaxConnex

MAY 23, 2023

Last time we looked at a sample of the strange sales tax laws regarding food, including a sliced bagel in New York. If only that was the only complex category concerning sales tax. Diapers and groceries are taxed in Hawaii, Idaho, Utah, Kansas, Missouri, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Tennessee and Alabama, Mississippi and South Dakota.

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TaxConnex

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Our Halloween-month look at tricky items for sales tax continues here with a few items it’s hard to live without…. Some states (of course) have special sales tax rules for clothing. Added complication: Clothes are also included in many states’ sales tax holidays. Thirteen states tax groceries.

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TaxConnex

JANUARY 17, 2023

Online sales could not exist without shipping, and the charges associated with shipping are subject to sales tax in many states. Question is, who has to pay that sales tax these days, and where? For sales tax purposes, you’ll see reference to “shipping,” “shipping and handling” (Arizona taxes these two, for instance) and “delivery”.

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CPA Practice

APRIL 5, 2024

Earlier this week WalletHub released a study that shows which states’ residents have the highest and lowest tax burden , measured as the proportion of total personal income that residents pay toward state and local taxes. The study looks at how much tax the average person is estimated to pay in each state throughout their lifetime.

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Accounting Today

MAY 24, 2024

Connecticut Society of CPAs installs board of directors; CohnReznick establishes merger integration and carve-out services practice; and more news from across the profession.

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TaxConnex

AUGUST 1, 2023

Except when sales tax becomes involved. And the state or local sales tax you also charged on the purchase? Here it gets complicated: How much did you charge the customer in sales tax? Where was the sale made (and did it incur sales tax based on destination or origin )? It seems like a simple part of selling online.

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TaxConnex

OCTOBER 8, 2024

But not all search engines – or state tax websites – are created equal. What it’s like typing “sales tax” into that little rectangle with the magnifying glass on each state’s website? Here are first impressions from one-and-done searches for “sales tax” on the revenue site of each state. Connecticut Dept.

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CPA Practice

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Top 20 accounting firm Citrin Cooperman is expanding its presence in Connecticut and New England by acquiring Teplitzky & Co., a Woodbridge, CT-based accounting, consulting, and tax firm specializing in the healthcare industry, effective next month. Financial terms of the deal weren’t disclosed.

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TaxConnex

AUGUST 2, 2022

In many states, sales tax holidays have been in full swing this year and will continue for months to come. These holidays are limited times (frequently weekends) where a state allows sales tax to be eliminated or reduced on categories of consumer products. 14-20); Connecticut (Aug. Holiday time already? 5-8); Illinois (Aug.

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