Williams Mullen's Comeback Plan: Part I – State & Local Tax (SALT) Compliance During COVID-19: What to Do When You’re Behind
Videocast: SALT Scoreboard – 2019 year in review
Podcast: State Taxation of Digital Health Products
Podcast: South Dakota v. Wayfair
State and Local Taxation: Headline News and Trends (CPE/CLE)
Polsinelli Podcast - Public Policy Issues in 2013
Among the multitude of “taxable services” listed in the Texas Tax Code are “information services.” Although the Texas Tax Code’s definition of information services is somewhat sparse, the Comptroller has expanded on this...more
A Massachusetts tax auditor once said to me with pride, “They don’t call us ‘Taxachusetts’ for nothing!” when I explained that the Department’s position was unsupported. Recently, Massachusetts was reminded that its...more
Recent legislation has brought Kansas and Missouri up-to-date with the nation by instituting new tax collection requirements for out-of-state retailers lacking a physical presence in their state....more
On April 19, 2021, Florida joined a growing number of states in enacting legislation imposing sales and use tax collection obligations on remote sellers lacking a physical presence in the state and requiring so-called...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
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
New York State increased the sales tax economic factor presence nexus threshold from $300,000 to $500,000. The change is retroactive to June 1, 2019....more
The Kansas Department of Revenue recently released Notice 19-04 (the “Notice”) which provides that all remote sellers making sales into the state are required to register for and begin collecting and remitting sales and use...more
As expected, Rhode Island enacted legislation effective July 1, 2019 that requires remote retailers, marketplace facilitators, and referrers to register with the Rhode Island Division of Taxation and collect and remit Rhode...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
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
The Pennsylvania Department of Revenue (“DOR”) has adopted new rules explaining when out-of-state sellers are required to collect Pennsylvania sales tax on sales to Pennsylvania buyers. The new rules are effective July 1,...more
Several weeks have passed since the United States Supreme Court decided South Dakota v. Wayfair Inc. Many states have already issued administrative guidance in response to the decision. Other states have announced that they...more
The West Virginia State Tax Department has announced that, beginning January 1, 2019, remote sellers will be required to be registered to collect and remit state and municipal sales and use tax for sales made to customers...more
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
In the wake of the United States Supreme Court overturning Quill v. North Dakota, 504 U.S. 298 (1992), by its ruling in South Dakota v. Wayfair, 138 S. Ct. 2080 (2018), Michigan Department of Treasury issued a lot of...more
Since the Supreme Court’s landmark decision in South Dakota v. Wayfair, more than half of the states with sales tax have rapidly taken steps to begin collecting sales tax from out-of-state retailers, with 24 of the 45 states...more
As a result of the U.S. Supreme Court's June 2018 decision in South Dakota v. Wayfair, the Michigan Department of Treasury has issued sales and use tax guidance adopting economic nexus standards for remote sellers. ...more
Sales and use tax compliance is complicated. Both sellers and purchasers are required to determine where they have nexus, where the purchased products or services should be sourced, and whether the product or service itself...more
Jeffrey S. Reed, Chair of Kilpatrick Townsend’s State and Local Tax Group, spoke at Tax Executives Institute’s Tax School in Dallas, Texas, on April 25th. He discussed the South Dakota v. Wayfair oral argument, which occurred...more
The U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments in the latest challenge to Quill’s physical-presence standard for collecting state use taxes. Our State & Local Tax Group provides a first-hand account of the lively debate and...more
A number of parties have filed amicus curiae briefs in South Dakota v. Wayfair, a case that could substantially reshape the state sales tax landscape. Perhaps one of the most interesting amicus briefs was filed by a group of...more
Rep. Kristi Noem (R-SD) has been pushing to include an online sales tax measure in the forthcoming omnibus. Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden (D-OR) has accused Republicans of “plotting to sneak a massive...more