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Florida Sales Tax Holiday May 31, 2019 – June 6, 2019
Florida’s 2019 Disaster Preparedness Sales Tax Holiday has begun. During this period, purchases of certain disaster preparedness items are exempt from Florida sales tax. But before you go out and purchase that expensive camping item or generator you’ve always wanted, make sure to look at the price limits on these items. Selling for $10 or…
Read MoreSales Tax Changes for Fulfillment by Amazon Sellers
Fulfillment by Amazon (FBA) sellers have faced much of the brunt of the rapid changes in sales tax nexus laws across the country that began in 2018. Seemingly overnight, the fallout from the South Dakota vs. Wayfair case resulted in sellers having to register for sales tax all over the country when previously they only…
Read MoreThe Sharing Economy and Sales Tax Nexus: A Peer-to-Peer Business Problem
Sales tax nexus is just the more recent issue plaguing peer-to-peer platforms, which have been struggling with tax issues since their inception. June 2018 added a new problem to the mix, when the Supreme Court held in South Dakota vs. Wayfair that states could require businesses to collect and remit sales tax when certain economic…
Read MoreCalifornia Economic Nexus Changes and Marketplace Facilitator Law
California’s Marketplace Facilitator Act, AB 147, has changed California’s economic nexus law to a $500,000 threshold and enacted a new law classifying marketplace facilitators as the retail seller of all sales they facilitate for a marketplace seller. The new law, enacted April 25, 2019, simplifies California’s sales tax scheme, exempting small businesses and shifting the…
Read MoreHow do you get a Sales Tax ID Number?
Now more than ever, businesses are finding that they need to obtain sales tax ID numbers in the states in which they are doing business. But how, exactly, do businesses go about getting a sales tax ID? Since the Supreme Court of the United States held in South Dakota vs. Wayfair that states could require businesses…
Read MoreHow to Register your Online Business for Sales Tax
You need to register to pay sales tax with multiple states, but how do you get started? Like many online retailers, you may have discovered the sales tax laws you were familiar with were turned on their head in June 2018 when the landmark decision, South Dakota vs. Wayfair, came down from the Supreme Court…
Read MoreWhen to Register for a Sales Tax Permit
Businesses that know they need to register for sales and use tax may be dragging their feet in deciding when to go through with it. Between June 2018 and April 2019, many businesses have gone from being registered only in the states they are physically located in to needing to register in many states across…
Read MoreI have nexus. What next?
Once business owners realize they have sales tax nexus, it is important to understand the registration options that come next. You may have done your research when you first heard about the recent Supreme Court case South Dakota vs. Wayfair that changed United States sales tax law forever. First, you may have looked into what…
Read MoreWhat is Use Tax Reporting?
While businesses scramble to abide by new economic nexus laws in the post-Wayfair craze, many are overlooking a potentially even larger burden. This burden, Use Tax Reporting, has been lurking since before the Wayfair case and has become only more relevant after it. Use Tax Reporting evolved when states were restricted by the then-current case…
Read MoreWhat is Affiliate Nexus?
Affiliate nexus is imposed when an out-of-state business has an “affiliate” located within the state. The theory behind affiliate nexus is that the relationship between the in-state business and out-of-state business is such that the out-of-state business has a sufficient presence within the state for it to be required to collect and remit sales tax.…
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