TaxConnex

MAY 7, 2024

There’s always something changing in the world of tax, especially sales tax. A bill that would raise the online sales tax in Alabama is progressing with state lawmakers. The current Alabama sales tax is 8% for online purchases, the same as for purchases at the state’s brick-and-mortar stores. Leveling the field.

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CPA Practice

AUGUST 11, 2023

A South Carolina woman was sentenced today to 37 months in prison for conspiring to defraud the United States by preparing and filing false tax returns. According to court documents and statements made in court, Georgina Gonzalez, formerly of Miami, worked as a tax return preparer since at least 2013. Attorney Adair F.

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TaxConnex

MAY 26, 2022

However, certain exemptions could apply making the sale of TPP exempt from sales tax in some situations. The buyer wants to make the original purchase exempt from sales tax, and they expect to then charge sales tax when they sell the item. Sales tax obligations start with nexus. Assessing your footprint.

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CPA Practice

AUGUST 14, 2023

A South Carolina woman was sentenced today to 37 months in prison for conspiring to defraud the United States by preparing and filing false tax returns. According to court documents and statements made in court, Georgina Gonzalez, formerly of Miami, worked as a tax return preparer since at least 2013. Attorney Adair F.

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TaxConnex

JUNE 1, 2021

Collecting and remitting sales tax can be onerous – and expensive – for any business. That’s one reason some states give a collection discount to help with the costs of managing sales tax. Most taxing jurisdictions mandate on-time filing and full payment of tax due, among other conditions, to qualify for these discounts.

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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

DECEMBER 28, 2023

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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TaxConnex

JANUARY 11, 2022

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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TaxConnex

AUGUST 24, 2021

In the world of sales tax, they’re major marketplace facilitators. Marketplace facilitators are required to charge sales tax where they have nexus (the connection between a tax authority and a company). It wasn’t long before states recognized that there was still a large portion of internet-based sales that weren’t being taxed.

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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

MARCH 22, 2022

Collecting and remitting sales tax to states and other tax jurisdictions is time consuming and can be expensive. Somebody can: the states and tax jurisdictions themselves. collection discount to help with the costs of managing sales tax.?If Slightly more than half the states offer various discounts for sales tax filers.

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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

JANUARY 28, 2021

There’s always something changing or new going on in the world of tax, especially sales tax. Nationwide , the Streamlined Sales Tax Governing Board has made amendments to the Streamlined Sales and Use Tax (SST) Agreement to revise its amnesty-related provisions. It’s reported to bring about $9 million in revenue annually.

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TaxConnex

JULY 20, 2021

There’s no way to sugarcoat it: Sales tax obligations are already difficult at the state level, but when you bring it down to local jurisdictions, or home rule jurisdictions, you get the next level of complexity. Setting sales taxes laws often fall under that umbrella. Setting sales taxes laws often fall under that umbrella.

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TaxConnex

OCTOBER 5, 2021

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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TaxConnex

JUNE 8, 2021

There’s always something changing in the world of tax, especially sales tax. They were the last two states with a sales tax to set up such requirements.). The bill requires the collection and remittance of sales and compensating use tax by most marketplace facilitators beginning July 1. And 2021 continues to prove that.

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Withum

AUGUST 14, 2024

On August 9, 2024, the IRS announced relief from certain tax filing and payment deadlines for individuals and businesses in all of South Carolina, most of Florida and North Carolina, and part of Georgia that were affected by Hurricane Debby.

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TaxConnex

MAY 19, 2022

Given the complexity that already exists regarding sales tax, it’d be great if states were the only jurisdictions that levied them. Local sales are becoming an increasing burden for online sellers as cities, counties and towns nationwide constantly tinker with their own sales taxes and other jurisdictions create new economic nexus rules.

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TaxConnex

OCTOBER 13, 2022

We’re fond of saying that nothing’s ever easy in sales tax. And here we’ll kick off our run toward Halloween with a look at one of the newest and trickiest areas of sales tax: electric vehicle chargers and charging. This new line of business raises a few sales tax questions, chiefly regarding the electricity flowing into the vehicles.

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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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CPA Practice

OCTOBER 1, 2024

The IRS on Tuesday announced disaster tax relief for all individuals and businesses affected by Hurricane Helene, including the entire states of Alabama, Georgia, North Carolina, and South Carolina, as well as parts of Florida, Tennessee, and Virginia. 25 in North Carolina, South Carolina, and Virginia; and Sept.

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Cherry Bekaert

MAY 27, 2024

South Carolina legislature recently passed both an expansion and extension of the Abandoned Buildings Revitalization Act , which has been instrumental in the revitalization of abandoned and neglected properties across the state. The new law applies to income tax years beginning after December 31, 2023.

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CPA Practice

DECEMBER 19, 2023

The start of a month typically brings some number of tax-related changes. Erie County, New York, exempts energy sources and services New York state sales tax doesn’t apply to retail sales of residential energy sources and services, but local sales tax does apply in many jurisdictions, including Erie County. cents per gallon.

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Accounting Today

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

The IRS is giving South Carolina residents impacted by the storm later filing and payment dates.

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CPA Practice

APRIL 25, 2023

A South Carolina return preparer has pleaded guilty, after his jury trial had begun, to two counts of filing false tax returns. Harmon agreed that the total tax loss from his criminal conduct was approximately $320,000. Goldberg of the Justice Department’s Tax Division, U.S.

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CPA Practice

MAY 8, 2023

Reducing taxes is one way to cut costs, and sometimes moving from a high-tax state to a low-tax state can eliminate thousands of dollars in expenses year after year. Tennessee, Texas, and Florida are among the most commonly moved-to states, and it just so happens that these states don’t tax income.

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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

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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CPA Practice

OCTOBER 2, 2023

October 16 is this year’s deadline for taxpayers who requested additional time to file their taxes. However, taxes expected to be owed were required to be owed by the original April 18, 2023, deadline. Those in the counties of Maui, Hawaii, and many counties in Florida, South Carolina and Georgia have until Feb.

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TaxConnex

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Each brings different sales tax implications – and retail and ecommerce businesses aren’t always aware of their obligations. The exemption question Sales tax obligations start with nexus, the concept that enables state and local governments to require businesses to collect and remit sales tax on the products and services they sell.

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TaxConnex

OCTOBER 27, 2022

States are like that, too: sometimes candy is considered food (groceries) for sales tax purposes, sometimes it’s not and sometimes it’s somewhere in between. In many states, for instance, liquor-filled candy – which admittedly few are going to give to kids on Halloween – can be taxed differently than regular candy. Not merely because’.

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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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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. South Carolina, Ohio and Virginia exempt some protective clothing. Figuring sales tax on food depends on where and how the food is sold.

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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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CPA Practice

AUGUST 25, 2024

Yet some states still haven’t clearly defined how sales and use tax applies to digital goods and services. To help you better understand digital products sales tax, this blog will explain: How do you define digital products for sales tax? How do you figure out sales tax on digital products by state?

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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. Florida probably leads all states concerning sales tax holidays.

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Cherry Bekaert

APRIL 22, 2024

individual states offer unique tax credits and negotiated incentives to attract or retain business operations. Georgia and South Carolina: Georgia and South Carolina offer similar job credit programs over a five-year period. Throughout the U.S., The incentive amount varies by location and industry.

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