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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

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Slightest Presence Nexus Attack Fails in Massachusetts for Pre-Wayfair Years

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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

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

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California Governor Vetoes Sales Tax Bill Seeking to Require Large Online Retailers to File Informational Reports Detailing Sales...

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

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Florida Enacts Remote Seller Nexus and Marketplace Provider Laws

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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

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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

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

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Florida Legislative Update: Wayfair

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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

Ward and Smith, P.A.

Web-Based Businesses and Other "Remote Sellers" Beware – A Morass of Sales Tax Obligations Are Upon You

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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

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NYS Tax Department: Changes to Sales Tax Collection Requirement for Marketplace Providers

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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

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Kansas Surprises By Removing Nexus Thresholds And Seeks To Create Rebirth Of “Slightest Presence” Nexus

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

Adler Pollock & Sheehan P.C.

Three Landmines In Rhode Island’s Post-Wayfair Sales Tax Law And How To Avoid Them

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

Buckingham, Doolittle & Burroughs, LLC

Ohio Sales / Use Tax: Ohio joins the wave by enacting Wayfair economic nexus standards and expanding collection obligations to...

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

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State Sales Tax Happenings in the Wake of Wayfair

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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

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Virginia Issues Guidance for Remote Sellers Concerning Sales and Use Tax Collection Requirements

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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

Akerman LLP - SALT Insights

Removing Transaction Thresholds – Where Does Wayfair Go From here?

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

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New Pennsylvania Sales Tax Rules for Out-Of-State Sellers

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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

Kilpatrick

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

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A Range Of State Responses After Wayfair

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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

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West Virginia to Impose Sales and Use Tax Collection Requirements on Remote Sellers

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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

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

Burr & Forman

South Carolina Department of Revenue Issues Final Guidance for Remote Sellers

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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

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Michigan Department of Treasury Levels the Playing Field Regarding Sales Taxes from Online Retailers Beginning Oct. 1

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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

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South Carolina Publishes Remote Seller Sales Tax Guidance

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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

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