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Kentucky now taxes a range of services

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“Services” are generally not subject to sales tax while tangible personal property generally is subject to sales tax. Kentucky is the latest in terms of taxing specific services. The Bluegrass State looks to expand sales tax on what it calls high-growth services. Get in touch to learn more.

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Hot Topics: Sales Tax Rates | TaxConnex

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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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The latest in funny sales tax laws | TaxConnex

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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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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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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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What’s new for state sales and use taxes

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There’s always something changing in the world of tax, especially sales tax. Inflation and other spiraling prices have driven states’ lawmakers to consider relief via sales and other taxes. Florida seems to be leading the way, proposing sales tax holidays and other short- and long-term tax relief on a broad range of products.