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2024: What’s coming up in sales tax

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The new year will no doubt be another active one in sales tax. 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. Overall, state tax revenues dropped 5.3%. If so, watch out for 2024.

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Sales tax on shipping: latest updates

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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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Sales Tax on Shipping: When Does it Apply?

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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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Excise Tax versus Sales Tax

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Soon after you start dealing with states’ sales tax, you’re going to also run into another term: excise tax. What is excise tax? And is it different from sales tax? A different kind of tax pie. Federal, state, and local governments can all impose excise taxes. Calculating and Charging.

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Taking a Look at Sales Tax Exemptions and Why They're Important

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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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Loopholes and other odd sales tax rules, part 2

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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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Tricky items for sales tax (Part 2)

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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. California, Idaho and Tennessee exempt only clothing sales for some nonprofits, for example. Thirteen states tax groceries.