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The Wayfair Decision: How Technology is Changing State Tax Laws

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The U.S. Supreme Court decision in South Dakota v. Wayfair, Inc. 138 S. Ct. 2080 (2018) upended how businesses think about state tax compliance. In Wayfair, the Court upheld a South Dakota sales tax law that taxed...more

Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP

British Columbia Proposes New PST Rules for Online Marketplace Facilitators

On February 22, 2022, British Columbia (B.C.) Finance released its 2022 budget and accompanying draft legislation, which proposed new provincial sales tax (PST) rules regarding “online marketplace facilitators.” These new...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

The Expanded Reach of States for Sales & Use Tax Purposes – More Than Just e-Commerce Retailers are Impacted

All states but one that impose a sales and use tax now have laws requiring out-of-state companies to collect tax if they have a significant economic presence in a state.  The Governor of Missouri, the last remaining state, is...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

Best Practices for In-Store and Curbside Pickup

In today’s COVID-era, more retailers are offering innovative solutions for customers to shop with minimal brick-and-mortar browsing time. Options to place an order online and pick up your items in the store are extremely...more

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New Florida Law Expected to Significantly Reduce Florida’s Commercial Lease Sales Tax Rate

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On April 19, 2021, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis signed into law Senate Bill 50 (SB 50), which amends portions of Chapter 212, Florida Statutes. SB 50 is slated to significantly reduce Florida’s commercial leasing sales tax...more

Akerman LLP - SALT Insights

Word Play: The Curious Case of Economic Nexus Legislation in Florida

In June 2018, the United States Supreme Court in Wayfair held that the physical presence of the taxpayer was no longer a prerequisite for imposition of a sales tax. In so doing, the Court blessed the concept of “economic...more

Buckingham, Doolittle & Burroughs, LLC

Sales Tax Collection: Broad Marketplace Facilitator Laws Could Capture Unwary Taxpayers

Most states have recently passed laws requiring marketplace facilitator to collect tax on e-commerce sales by remote sellers made through the marketplace’s platform. Ohio, for example, broadly defines a marketplace...more

Smith Anderson

2019 North Carolina Tax Legislation

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This Alert summarizes the more significant tax provisions enacted by the North Carolina General Assembly in 2019.  The most important tax changes were originally included in House Bill 966, the 2019 Appropriations Act (the...more

Ballard Spahr LLP

Navigating the Post-Wayfair Tax Maze: What’s Happening, What’s Next, and What’s at Stake

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Considerable changes to sales tax laws in more than two dozen states continue to challenge online retailers, who must swiftly comply with a complex and shifting network of regulations....more

Eversheds Sutherland (US) LLP

Missouri bill would require payment processors to collect sales tax

The Missouri House of Representatives is considering legislation (House Bill 648) that would impose sales tax collection obligations on payment processors. House Bill 648 was introduced on January 23, 2019, was read in the...more

Pullman & Comley, LLC

NEWSLETTER - Fall 2018 Property Tax and Valuation Digest

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U.S. Supreme Court Internet Sales Tax Decision and Property Values - Your editors do not need to belabor the point that brick and mortar retail occupancies, rents and values have been pounded as a result of internet...more

Hogan Lovells

A game changer? China enacts first e-commerce law

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In stark contrast to the rapid development of e-commerce in China, it has taken nearly five years and no less than four drafts for China to finalise its first e-Commerce Law. The new law will enter into force on 1 January...more

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Understanding Iowa's New Internet Sales Tax

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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

Pullman & Comley, LLC

Connecticut Seeks a Part of the Wayfair Action

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A bill passed in Connecticut’s 2018 legislative session seeks to expand the conditions under which certain out-of-state retailers must collect and remit Connecticut sales tax....more

Robins Kaplan LLP

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A look at the some of the losers—cities, mostly—in Amazon’s recent move to start collecting sales taxes in more states. The problem? While Amazon now collects sales taxes in every state that has one, it’s collection deals...more

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What Might Wayfair Mean for Me? The Changing Landscape of State and Local Sales Taxes and Retroactivity Concerns

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The rise of the internet retailer has created significant loss of sales tax revenue for state revenue agencies due to the loss of revenue from sales and use tax collected in brick-and-mortar retail establishments....more

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Retailers Anxiously Await Possible Changes to Taxation of Online Sales

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Retailers will be closely watching the outcome of the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to revisit a 26-year-old case which has limited states’ taxing authority over online sales. The Supreme Court, heeding calls from...more

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States Urge Reversal of Physical Presence Rule That Bars Collecting Sales Tax From Online Retailers

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Thirty-six state attorneys general, most recently joined by California and Hawaii, have filed an amici curiae brief urging the U.S. Supreme Court to reconsider the “physical presence test”. The test requires that a retailer...more

Robins Kaplan LLP

Sales Tax for Online Sales: Is It Time for a Change?

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Online sales tax is one of many tax-related issues that Congress is currently considering. (Stick with us, this shouldn’t be too boring.) Under the 1992 U.S. Supreme Court decision of Quill v. North Dakota (504 U.S. 298), an...more

Goulston & Storrs PC

To Tax or Not to Tax Internet Retailers, that is the Question

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Since the dawn of the age of e-commerce, brick-and-mortar retailers have championed “the level playing field”. Their battle cry: Internet retailers should be subject to sales tax just like us!...more

Pierce Atwood LLP

Under the Dome: Inside the Maine State House

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Under the Dome: Inside the Maine State House provides a high-level overview of recent activity at the Maine State House. Testimony on Tax Surcharge Bills - This week, the Legislature’s Taxation Committee heard...more

Eversheds Sutherland (US) LLP

Georgia Tax Tribunal Issues Two New Decisions on Remote Seller Nexus and Georgia Tax Credit Elections

The Georgia Tax Tribunal, in its first published decisions in more than a year, held that: (1) Scholastic Book Clubs has nexus in Georgia and must collect sales tax; and (2) a taxpayer’s election of one tax credit for...more

Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner

E-Commerce: Do I have an obligation to collect state sales tax?

When making sales or conducting business on the internet, it is easy to overlook state sales tax. Whether you make a sale of tangible property online, on the phone, by fax, via a purchase order, or other medium, you are...more

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