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3 Options for Optimizing Your Telecom Product Catalog

By Robert Dumas on Tue, Dec 19, 2023 @ 11:00 AM

This blog is an excerpt from our eBook with The CommLaw Group.

As a communications company, you face some of the most complex tax and regulatory rules of any industry. Whether you run an established business or you’re thinking about entering the VoIP, UCaaS, or other telecom market, it is important to understand your compliance obligations. Just as important … you need to comply while keeping your price competitive.

How do you do this? By optimizing your telecom compliance process!

Topics: sales tax compliance sales tax telecom tax
4 min read

How To Qualify For Telecommunications Tax Exemptions

By TaxConnex® on Thu, Nov 16, 2023 @ 11:00 AM

At TaxConnex, we work with telecommunications service providers of all sizes.  Many are existing MSPs (Managed Service Providers) or IT management companies that would like to expand their service offering and become “stickier” with their clients.

Topics: telecom tax
3 min read

Telecom tax and filing complexities

By Robert Dumas on Tue, Sep 19, 2023 @ 02:24 PM

Telecommunications companies face tougher problems than most other businesses when trying to comply with federal, state and local tax and regulatory obligations.

Topics: sales tax compliance sales tax telecom tax
3 min read

Telecommunications Tax Exemptions

By Robert Dumas on Thu, Aug 03, 2023 @ 10:45 AM

TaxConnex works with a lot of telecommunications service providers that are new to the business. Many are existing MSP’s (Managed Service Providers) or IT management companies that would like to expand their service offering and become “stickier” with their clients. They may have infrastructure in place to support the sales tax requirements of their existing business, but the telecommunications service presents a different set of issues.

Topics: sales tax telecom tax
4 min read

Telecom Faces Special Challenges with Taxes and Fees

By TaxConnex® on Tue, Jul 25, 2023 @ 11:00 AM

If you’re a telecommunications services company, you face greater trials than other businesses when complying with federal, state and local jurisdictions. In addition to state and local taxes, your business may also be subject to various federal and state regulatory obligations.

Topics: sales tax compliance telecom tax
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In telecom case, fault is with the company – not the third-party provider

By Robert Dumas on Tue, Oct 11, 2022 @ 11:00 AM

A proposed penalty from the Federal Communication Commission shows the danger of a hire-and-forget attitude toward a third-party for tax compliance.

Topics: telecom tax economic nexus
3 min read

Telecom Tax and Other Specialty Transactions Taxes

By Robert Dumas on Tue, Feb 02, 2021 @ 11:00 AM

Sales tax is broadly defined to mean any tax that is charged to the end-user customer by the retailer of property or services. Though this definition is correct, it does not always provide a complete picture of a business’s transactions tax liabilities.

Topics: telecom tax taxability
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Sales Tax and Your 2021 Growth Goals

By Robert Dumas on Thu, Jan 21, 2021 @ 11:00 AM

If your online company looks to expand its interstate sales in 2021, know one thing: Your plan involves risks and new responsibilities. The key is learning how to manage both, as sales tax non-compliance or errors can bring stiff penalties.

Topics: sales tax telecom tax
3 min read

How to Choose the Right Sales Tax Provider

By Robert Dumas on Tue, Jan 19, 2021 @ 11:00 AM

Picking the right provider to handle your business’s sales and use tax compliance is a big decision.

Topics: sales tax telecom tax
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Taxes in the Telecom World: Misconceptions and Advice

By TaxConnex® on Tue, Sep 22, 2020 @ 11:00 AM

This article was written for the Atlanta Business Chronicle Leadership Trust. To see the original post, click here

Taxes are an integral part of the telecom world. Taxes, fees and government surcharges on telecommunications services increased from 19.1% to 21.7% in 2019 (even as average monthly bills for consumers actually dropped).

In talking with countless telecommunications service providers about their various tax and regulatory requirements, there are some recurring themes I hear that can be troubling. These recurring issues tend to pop up with new VoIP service providers. Perhaps they’ve been in business for years previously — and they may have even had various sales tax obligations historically — but they are now offering VoIP services that expose them to a completely different set of tax and regulatory obligations.

Topics: telecom tax taxability
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Top 10 Tips for Tax Compliance in Telecom and VoIP Providers

By TaxConnex® on Thu, Mar 26, 2020 @ 11:00 AM

There are many misconceptions when it comes to telecommunication and VoIP taxes. However, if we had to narrow it down to the two most fundamental misconceptions that impact everything else, it would be: 

Topics: sales tax compliance telecom tax
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4 Activities that Can Create Sales Tax Nexus

By Brian Greer on Mon, Jun 12, 2017 @ 09:00 AM

Knowing where to collect and remit sales tax for your business becomes more complicated all the time, thanks to the sometimes ugly world of sales tax nexus. If you have nexus in a state, you are responsible for collecting sales tax there.  Here are four business activities that can trigger nexus that are somewhat under the radar:

Topics: sales tax nexus telecom tax
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How To Qualify For Telecommunications Tax Exemptions

By Brian Greer on Tue, Oct 04, 2016 @ 11:07 AM

TaxConnex works with a lot of telecommunications service providers that are new to the business.  Many are existing MSP’s (Managed Service Providers) or IT management companies that would like to expand their service offering and become “stickier” with their clients.  

Topics: telecom tax
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Myths and Misconceptions - A Guide for Telecom Tax Compliance

By Brian Greer on Fri, Aug 26, 2016 @ 02:00 PM

I speak with several companies each week that are in the process of launching a new VoIP telecommunications service.  Misinformation abounds including……”Since it’s delivered over the Internet I thought it was tax free.”  I hear the following comment also…..”My carrier is collecting and paying all the taxes and fees for me.”

Let me dispel these rumors. 

First, VoIP is both taxed and regulated.  It is not tax free. 

Furthermore, carriers are generally only collecting those taxes and fees that apply to the wholesale transaction when they sell the service to you.  As a telecom reseller, you are exposed for the applicable taxes and fees on the mark-up at least and potentially for the taxes and fees that you have already paid to your carrier.

Topics: telecom tax
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Communicating Your Sales Tax Needs to IT

By Anne Birkmann on Tue, May 10, 2016 @ 10:30 AM

Sometimes in the sales tax world, tax and finance departments need to rely on their IT department to get sales tax added to an invoice correctly or to get reports for various reasons. 

Topics: sales tax telecom tax
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Top 10 Guide for Telecom Tax Compliance

By Brian Greer on Tue, Apr 05, 2016 @ 10:40 AM

I speak with several companies each week that are in the process of launching a new VoIP telecommunications service.  Misinformation abounds including……

Topics: telecom tax