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Law firms periodically receive requests for advice from CPAs regarding a client’s need to come into compliance with the relatively new and sometimes confusing “economic nexus” or “Wayfair” rules for selling goods or providing...more
In determining whether the commerce clause of the U.S. Constitution prohibits a state’s taxation of a remote seller, the U.S. Supreme Court for decades has upheld a tax if (1) there is a substantial nexus between the taxing...more
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
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
The Supreme Court of the United States’ decision in Wayfair, in June 2018, changed the landscape for sales and use taxes nexus for on-line retailers and remote sellers. Due to budgetary deficits the states are facing due to...more
Online Tax Consideration Expected to Make Headway in 2021 - Online taxation will be a hotly contested issue in the 2021 Florida legislative session, potentially reaching into every industry that sells goods and services...more
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
Sales Tax Obligations — Businesses with a Physical Presence in a State - It should come as no surprise that almost all states require businesses with a physical presence in a state and that sell goods or services in the...more
On March 3, 2020, the United States House of Representatives’ Committee on Small Business, Subcommittee on Economic Growth, Tax, and Capital Access, held a hearing titled, “South Dakota v. Wayfair, Inc.: Online Sales Taxes...more
The Pennsylvania Department of Revenue issued a bulletin announcing its view that the US Supreme Court’s sales and use tax decision in Wayfair v. South Dakota applies equally to corporate net income tax and authorizes the...more
Nexus for Ohio sales / use tax collection expands effective August 1, 2019 to include out-of-state sellers and marketplace facilitators that deliver at least $100,000 of sales or 200 transactions to Ohio. Ohio’s General...more
We are approaching one year since the U.S. Supreme Court overruled 50 years of precedent to eliminate the “physical presence” bright-line rule for substantial nexus in its South Dakota v. Wayfair decision. Most states have...more
Since the US Supreme Court’s June 21, 2018, decision in South Dakota vs. Wayfair, Inc. , many of the 45 sales tax-collecting states have been making moves to put laws and processes in place for tax collections for...more
A Q&A guide to remote sellers’ exposure to sales and use tax in Ohio after the US Supreme Court’s decision in South Dakota v. Wayfair, Inc. in 2018. This Q&A addresses issues including nexus for remote sellers, taxability...more
The Virginia Department of Taxation issued guidelines for the new laws requiring remote sellers, marketplace sellers, and marketplace facilitators to register and collect Virginia sales and use taxes. (See Guidelines for...more
The Supreme Court ruling will prevent taxpayers from challenging assessments from out-of-state taxing authorities in local courts. On May 13, 2019, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that states retain sovereign immunity from...more
A previous Alert dated April 9th, summarized the North Carolina Senate’s original tax plan for 2019 as set forth in the first edition of Senate Bill 622. Since then, the House passed its version of the 2019 appropriations...more
Last year, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in South Dakota v. Wayfair that economic nexus is constitutional for sales tax purposes. South Dakota’s economic nexus statute at issue in the case included an economic threshold of at...more
Under a new California law signed by Governor Gavin Newsom on Thursday, out-of-state online retailers that make more than $500,000 from California sales must collect sales tax from their California customers. Although the...more
On April 25, 2019, California Governor Gavin Newsom signed Assembly Bill 147 into law, modifying use tax nexus thresholds for state and local district taxes, and establishing marketplace collection requirements. These...more
On June 21, 2018, the United States Supreme Court decided South Dakota v. Wayfair Inc., et al., which upheld South Dakota’s economic nexus law allowing the state to impose sales tax upon online retailers who sell goods into...more
California adopts robust marketplace facilitator regime and responds to threshold limitations in U.S. Supreme Court’s Wayfair decision. New legislation sets California’s sales and use tax economic nexus threshold to...more
In the late nineteenth century, Annie Oakley was arguably the most famous woman in the country. She was renowned for her skill as a sharpshooter and traveled the country in Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show performing...more
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
The Pennsylvania Department of Revenue recently issued guidance in response to the Supreme Court opinion in South Dakota v. Wayfair, Inc., 138 S.Ct. 2080 (2018), clarifying when remote sellers are considered to maintain...more