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Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

A cautionary tale: Challenges for firms in Wayfair compliance

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

Troutman Pepper

State Taxation of Remote Sellers: US Supreme Court Declines Review of First Post-Wayfair Decision from a State Supreme Court

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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

BakerHostetler

[Podcast] Are Decentralized Sales Tax Regimes Vulnerable to Lawsuits?

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Louisiana voters appear to have rejected a constitutional amendment that would have centralized its state and parish sales tax systems. Does this rejection mean that parish taxes remain unduly burdensome to interstate...more

Freeman Law

On-line Retailers and Remote Sellers: Sales and Use Taxes

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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

Jones Day

New Illinois and Chicago Taxes for Direct-to-Consumer Wine Sales

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Direct-to-consumer wine sellers will face confusing, burdensome, and potentially unlawful new tax collection responsibilities beginning in 2021. The Illinois Department of Revenue released Informational Bulletin FY 2021-06...more

Buckingham, Doolittle & Burroughs, LLC

Marketplace facilitators making interstate sales collect Ohio sales tax based upon the consumer’s destination

Sourcing sales is critical to determine the appropriate jurisdiction and tax rate for Ohio sales tax collection purposes. Recently, the Ohio Department of Taxation revised Information Release ST 2009-03 to reflect that sales...more

Eversheds Sutherland (US) LLP

Congressional hearing on Wayfair raises sales tax burden issues

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

Bracewell LLP

Tax Update from the Texas 86th Legislative Session

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Major tax legislative updates occurred as part of the 86th Texas Legislature: Sales and Use Taxes - Marketplace providers (HB 1525) - Texas, and several other states, have enacted legislation that requires...more

Morgan Lewis

Pennsylvania Administratively Sets Bright-Line Economic Nexus Threshold for Corporate Net Income Tax

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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

Buckingham, Doolittle & Burroughs, LLC

Multistate Sales Tax: States continue to roll out their own economic nexus laws in response to Wayfair

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

Buckingham, Doolittle & Burroughs, LLC

Earth-shattering tax liability means doomsday for vendors: Don’t put your personal net worth at-risk

Vendors selling out of state but not collecting sales tax are on a path to suffering severe financial loss. The tax liability could be astronomical – enough to devastate a business – as high as 10% or more of total sales for...more

Buckingham, Doolittle & Burroughs, LLC

Practical Law - Sales and Use Tax for Remote Sellers: Ohio

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

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Taxpayers Cannot Sue Out-of-State Taxing Authorities in Local Courts

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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

Smith Anderson

2019 North Carolina Tax Bills Advance in House and Senate

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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

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New California Law Requires Collection of Sales Tax From Third-Party Online Retailers

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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

White and Williams LLP

Economic Nexus Laws: Following Wayfair, US States Take Action

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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

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Impact of the U.S. Supreme Court Wayfair Decision on the Outdoor Industry

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BACKGROUND: In June 2018, the U.S. Supreme Court issued an important tax decision in the matter of South Dakota v. Wayfair. In Wayfair, the Court determined that a state can impose a sales tax collection and remittance...more

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5 Key Takeaways: U.S. Sales and Use Tax: Where are we after South Dakota v. Wayfair?

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Jeffrey S. Reed, Chair of Kilpatrick Townsend’s State and Local Tax Group, spoke in Washington DC on November 29, 2018 at the International Tax Dispute Resolution & Litigation Summit, on the topic “U.S. Sales and Use Tax:...more

Adler Pollock & Sheehan P.C.

Wayfair And Gobstoppers

What’s something difficult to chew, changes colors rapidly, and is going to be around for a long time? If you answered the Wonka candy Everlasting Gobstopper, you would be correct....more

Rosenberg Martin Greenberg LLP

What to Know About Wayfair and Its Impact on Maryland Sales Tax Audits

Earlier this year, the Supreme Court decided on the much-anticipated case of South Dakota v. Wayfair, 585 U.S. ___, 138 S.Ct. 2080 (2018). At issue was the validity of a statute applying sales tax to internet retailers that...more

Alston & Bird

California Explains its Response to Wayfair

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On October 24, 2018, the California Department of Tax and Fee Administration (“CDTFA”) held a stakeholder’s meeting to discuss the impact of South Dakota v. Wayfair on use tax collection in California. Among those at the...more

McDermott Will & Emery

Illinois Department of Revenue Issues Post-Wayfair Guidance Implementing October 1 Economic Nexus Law

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In June 2018, just before the US Supreme Court ruling in Wayfair, Illinois enacted an economic nexus standard modeled after South Dakota’s law. The new Illinois standard takes effect on October 1, 2018. On September 11, the...more

Neal, Gerber & Eisenberg LLP

Client Alert: Illinois Imposes Economic Nexus Standard Impacting Remote Sellers

On June 21, 2018, the United States Supreme Court dramatically altered the state tax world when it issued its decision in South Dakota v. Wayfair, Inc....more

Womble Bond Dickinson

U.S. and Foreign Businesses: You are Now “Virtually” Certain to Have Multistate Tax Obligations

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Executive Summary - After Wayfair, unless Congress intervenes: The physical presence sales tax taxability standard is now gone - at least under circumstances like those presented by South Dakota’s situation. Income...more

Baker Donelson

Spotlight on Louisiana: After Wayfair, Sales and Use Tax Compliance for Louisiana E-Commerce

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The U.S. Supreme Court's decision in South Dakota v. Wayfair, Inc. et al. has affected a significant change in the sales tax collection and remitting responsibilities of all businesses, large and small, that are selling at...more

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