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States hit ‘Delete’ on some sales tax measures | TaxConnex

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If it seems like jurisdictions just ceaselessly add additional sales tax laws, statutes and restrictions, recent news out of three states should be refreshing. North Carolina has become the latest state to ax transaction thresholds for economic nexus. The state’s previous 200-transaction threshold was eliminated effective July 1.

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How to register for states’ sales tax

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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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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 Compliance - There Is No EASY Button

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Sales tax automation has come a long way since the Quill vs. North Dakota case in 1992. Now, even the smallest multi-state businesses and startups have access to sales tax automation options that lower costs and ease the burden of compliance. Sales tax automation and technology fall short in these areas.

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Cookies, clicks and Wayfair: Why economic nexus started

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It seems like yesterday when only physical nexus ignited a company’s sales tax obligations in a state. Evolution of sales tax obligations “Nexus” means a company has a connection to a tax jurisdiction sufficient to allow that jurisdiction to make the company adhere to sales tax rules. How and why did this come about?

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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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What's New in State Sales and Use Taxes

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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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