On December 9, Kay Miller Hobart and Madison Felder filed an amicus brief on behalf of the Council On State Taxation (COST) and its more than 500 members in the closely watched case of Amazon Services, LLC v. South Carolina...more
Last week, the Supreme Court of Mississippi handed down an opinion in Fitch v. Wine Express Inc., No. 2018-SA-01259-SCT. A state court decision on the rather dry subject of personal jurisdiction often merits little comment,...more
The Policy Division of the South Carolina Department of Revenue has issued a final revenue ruling, SC Revenue Ruling #18-14, addressing retailers without a physical presence in South Carolina. The ruling comes on the heels of...more
The Policy Division of the South Carolina Department of Revenue has issued a draft revenue ruling addressing retailers without a physical presence in South Carolina. Comments on the draft ruling are due by August 27, 2018,...more
On August 7, 2018, the North Carolina Department of Revenue issued a Directive (SD-18-6) requiring remote sellers to begin collecting North Carolina sales tax on sales of goods and services to North Carolina customers. The...more
Following the Supreme Court’s landmark decision in South Dakota v. Wayfair, Inc., the Director of the South Carolina Department of Revenue, Hartley Powell, announced that SCDOR will begin requiring remote sellers to collect...more
On May 30, 2018, Iowa’s Governor signed Senate File 2417. Among other things, it applies Iowa’s 7% sales tax to sales over the internet in Iowa....more
In response to public comments issued on September 8, 2017 that won’t be published in the Massachusetts Register until September 22, 2017, the Massachusetts Department of Revenue (“DOR”) will require online vendors to collect...more
We previously reported to you that the Massachusetts Department of Revenue (DOR) had revoked Directive 17-1 requiring the collection of Massachusetts sales and use taxes by Internet vendors that meet certain sales thresholds...more
Our previous QuickStudy published on July 14, 2017, discussed the swift revocation of Directive 17-1 by the Massachusetts Department of Revenue (“DOR”) following a ruling from the Massachusetts Superior Court that Directive...more
The Massachusetts Department of Revenue (Department) has just issued Directive 17-2 revoking Directive 17-1 which adopted an economic nexus standard for sales tax purposes. Directive 17-2 states that the revocation is in...more
Recently, the Massachusetts Department of Revenue (Department) sent letters to several companies regarding Directive 17-1. The Directive announces a “rule” requiring remote internet sellers to register for and begin...more
In addition to Tennessee’s passage of the IMPROVE Act (Improving Manufacturing, Public Roads and Opportunities for a Vibrant Economy) also known as the “2017 Tax Cut Act,” 2017 Tenn. Pub. Acts 181, featured in our State and...more
The Massachusetts Department of Revenue (DOR) recently issued guidance under which it will require the collection of Massachusetts sales and use taxes by remote sellers that meet certain sales thresholds in Massachusetts....more
The 2017 legislative session begins February 7th in Montgomery, and we expect several tax-related proposals to be considered during the session. Our readers may recall that the 2016 session ended with no long-term plan in...more
The Alabama Department of Revenue (ADOR) quietly filed its Answer in the ongoing challenge by Newegg, Inc. to the so-called economic nexus threshold set forth in ADOR Rule 810-6-2.90.03 for certain out-of-state retailers. In...more
South Dakota and several online retailers are currently engaged in a battle over the state’s new internet sales tax law (SB 106) aimed at online businesses who sell products to South Dakota residents but which are not...more
Are you an out-of-state retailer doing business in Tennessee? If so, take note. The Tennessee Department of Revenue is proposing a new rule mandating certain out-of-state dealers to collect and remit sales and uses taxes to...more
The South Carolina Department of Revenue (“DOR”) has issued new SC Revenue Ruling #16-6, providing use tax information for individuals, businesses, and nonprofits. The ruling supersedes SC Revenue Ruling #08-6 and provides...more
On June 16, 2016, the Tennessee Department of Revenue (DOR) submitted a new sales and use tax regulation for publication titled “Out-of-State Dealers” that would administratively create an economic nexus threshold. While the...more
Ever since Alabama’s new economic nexus regulation went into effect, litigation over its constitutionality has been expected given that Alabama Commissioner Julie Magee and Governor Bentley said as much when announcing it...more
Actually, there are really only two issues, but they are big issues. Arizona’s Transaction Privilege Tax has always been an anomaly in the traditional state sales tax system. Contrary to some commentators, however,...more
After several months’ wait and efforts to deal with pesky tax and geographical issues involving the police jurisdictions that surround most Alabama municipalities, the Alabama Department of Revenue last Friday posted a very...more