Some time ago you did your homework regarding sales tax. You discovered which of the economic nexus thresholds that you meet, calculated your sales in those states and when required have collected and remitted the sales tax. To do this, you obtained a sales tax license in each jurisdiction where you established nexus.

Sales into the state of Alaska have always been exempt from state level sales tax; however, many of the local jurisdictions in Alaska have enforced sales tax collection at the local level provided a business has a physical presence.  Now, with Wayfair, even remote sellers need to worry about collecting the local sales tax in Alaska.

The constantly changing nature of COVID-19 has left people with a lot of uncertainty. Sales tax isn’t an exception to that uncertainty as over 20 states have announced changes to their sales tax deadlines or policies in order to help businesses as they navigate life during the pandemic. If you’re like many businesses, you have sales tax nexus in multiple states. Keeping up with all their different regulations was difficult enough before COVID-19, and now it’s more complicated than ever.

It happened.  You received a sales tax audit notice from a jurisdiction.  What do you do?

Technology has radically changed the way consumers buy goods and services.  And while we can easily identify how digital disrupters, like Amazon, Netflix and Facebook have changed our purchasing behavior, a lessor known change is the way they’ve impacted sales tax.  In fact, it’s spurred the largest development in sales tax in over 50 years with the Wayfair case. While the physical presence tests still apply, the Wayfair case dramatically expands the number of businesses subject to sales and use tax obligations.

In light of recent legislation changes, you’ve determined you meet sales tax nexus thresholds outside of just your home state and now you have to collect, file, and remit sales tax in multiple states. What a headache. To make matters worse, this is a compliance issue, so you must act.

Once you’ve determined your requirement to collect and remit sales tax, you’ve set-up a process to charge sales tax, and you have registered with each required state, you need to consider how you will manage the return filing process.  Some key areas to consider are the following:

This year the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania is joining a number of other states in the U.S. that have already defined economic nexus for its sales tax as it applies to online sellers.  

Consumers in some US states are gearing up for an annual shopping holiday free from sales tax.

As a business owner, you are already familiar with the seemingly ever-changing tax laws.  Federal, state, and local tax changes are difficult to follow.  If you engage in interstate commerce, keeping up with the changes in each location is nearly impossible.  To help update you, here is a short list of sales tax news from around the country.

It’s hard to believe that Spring has sprung…at least down in the South it has.  With the coming of spring and daylight savings time on the horizon, many people find themselves starting that to do list and preparing budgets for home improvements, summer vacations, back to school, and more.

The long awaited day has finally come, the day in which all Sales & Use tax compliance addicts rejoice as Arizona finally rolls out the TPT Simplification.  That’s right folks, after a couple of false starts in recent years, TPT Simplification is LIVE on the Arizona website and I’m going to tell you all you need to know to quickly make the transition.

TaxConnex held a webinar yesterday regarding sales tax nexus and drop shipments.   The webinar was organized into three topics:

We get this question alot! So we decided to re-run this informative blog from April 2016.

“It depends.”

This single question could fill volumes to get to the proper answer. The simple answer is if you have sales tax nexus in a state, then you should register with the Department of Revenue for a sales tax id number and begin collecting and remitting sales tax.

In the sales tax world, “registrations” can take on multiple meanings. Generally speaking, sales tax registrations refer to the authorization to collect sales tax in a particular jurisdiction.