TaxConnex Sales Tax Blog

According to a report from WLOX, Biloxi's ABC news affiliate, hunters in Mississippi received a bit of a break on Labor Day weekend, with a sales tax holiday on firearms, ammunition, and hunting supplies.  Passed by the Mississippi legislature in...

Residents of St. Louis County, Missouri will decide in November whether or not to approve a tax increase for the benefit of the St. Louis Zoo.  The proposed sales tax would fund both cosmetic and functional upgrades to the zoo.  There are also plans...

New Hampshire Wrangles with Online Sales Taxes

Most have heard of the US Supreme Court decision regarding the collection of taxes on online sales earlier this year.  Many state governments are struggling with the implications and New Hampshire is no...

A five-member board in Kansas City that is tasked with overseeing a sales tax initiative for the city's East Side area is drawing criticism from the public.  The source of public displeasure is a decision by the board to not allow either citizens or...

Republican lawmakers in Ohio produced a bill to the General Assembly that seeks to require voter approval before any proposed county sales tax increases can be enacted.  The proposal has some county officials nervous due to the budget cuts that have...

New Sales Tax Includes Kentucky Non-Profits

On July 1 of this year, new sales tax rules went into effect in Kentucky, expanding the state-wide six percent rate to include non-profit businesses such as the YMCA and various museums.  The new rules...

Residents of Louisiana were not pleased in 2016 when their state legislature put in place a "temporary" state sales tax increase.  The word temporary often has a different meaning to state legislators than it does to the general public.  As of last...

A possible bookkeeping error by the state of Florida may have caused revenue collected near the University Parkway retail area to go to the wrong county.  The Manatee County Commission was notified of the surprising news during a budget meeting on...

A ballot measure added by the Sacramento City Council to the November ballot will seek voter approval for a one percent sales tax increase in the city to fund the maintenance of basic city services, and provide financing for economic and community...

Barrington Voters to Decide on Sales Tax

Officials in Barrington, Illinois will be asking voters in a fall referendum if the village should create a local sales tax for the first time.  Before imposing and collecting the tax dollars, officials must...