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)
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On April 26, 2023, the Supreme Court of California declined to review the Second District Court of Appeal’s decision in Grosz v. California Dep’t of Tax & Fee Admin. In the underlying case, Stanley Grosz, a business owner...more
This week, the Ninth Circuit considers whether the Tax Injunction Act bars online merchants from asking a federal court to enjoin California’s sales tax scheme requiring them to obtain seller’s permits. The Court holds...more
This week, Governor Newsom vetoed Senate Bill 792 (Glazer), which would have required large online retailers to include with their sales tax returns an additional schedule that reports gross receipts based on the “ship to” or...more
The California Department of Tax and Fee Administration (Department) has given notice that it proposes to amend California Code of Regulations, title 18, section (Regulation) 1706, Drop Shipments. Regulation 1706,...more
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
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
In this light-hearted episode, Matt Hunsaker explains how Wayfair, marketplace facilitator laws, false claims acts, economic nexus, the manufacturing exemption, and other issues apply to Santa Claus....more
On Wednesday, Nov. 6, 2019, the Multistate Tax Commission (MTC) Uniformity Committee will consider an updated white paper on the state of marketplace facilitator sales tax collection laws. This new white paper follows up on,...more
The California Department of Tax and Fee Administration held an Interested Parties Meeting to address proposed regulation 1684.5 on marketplace sales. ...more
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
Illinois recently passed Public Act 100-587 which requires remote sellers with no physical presence in Illinois to register and collect Use Tax on sales sourced to the state if certain thresholds are meet, effective October...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
Earlier this year, the Kentucky Legislature passed two tax bills that broadly change Kentucky’s corporate and personal income tax system, as well as make a number of sales and use tax and property tax changes. In the effort...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
South Carolina imposes a sales tax on the retail sale of tangible personal property in the state. South Carolina also charges a separate and related “use tax” on retail purchases of tangible personal property outside of South...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
In a widely anticipated decision in the state tax world, the United States Supreme Court, in South Dakota v. Wayfair (June 21, 2018), has struck down the sales tax physical presence standard set forth in Quill Corp. v. North...more
The US Supreme Court overturned over a half century of precedent on Thursday, holding that a state may reasonably impose sales tax collection obligations on retailers with no physical presence in the state based on a certain...more
On June 4, Illinois Governor Bruce Rauner signed into law the state’s fiscal year (FY) 2019 budget implementation bill, Public Act 100-0587 (the Act). The Act makes a significant change to the Illinois sales/use tax nexus...more
The United States Supreme Court will soon decide a significant sales tax case that is expected to have broad implications for internet businesses. The Supreme Court recently heard oral argument in South Dakota v. Wayfair...more
There were several notable state tax opinions issued by the South Carolina Administrative Law Court, Court of Appeals, and Supreme Court in the 1st quarter of 2018. A number of tax cases are also pending before the Court of...more
Today the United States Supreme Court heard oral arguments in South Dakota v. Wayfair – a case that could fundamentally change the rules governing when a state may impose sales or use tax collection responsibilities on a...more
The U.S. Supreme Court heard long-awaited arguments yesterday in South Dakota v. Wayfair, the case brought by the state against several retailers, hoping that the court will overturn over 25 years of precedent on the issue of...more
Twenty-six years ago in Quill Corp. v. North Dakota the U.S. Supreme Court held that the Bellas Hess bright line rule that out-of-state sellers cannot be held liable for collecting and remitting sales tax to any state unless...more
Earlier this month, the United States Supreme Court agreed to hear South Dakota’s challenge in South Dakota v. Wayfair to the 1992 Supreme Court decision in Quill v. North Dakota, which requires a physical presence test to...more