Sales Tax February 5, 2026
If a proposed constitutional amendment abolishing property taxes were to pass, Ohioans may see sales taxes skyrocket into the double digits, Gov. Mike DeWine said Thursday morning.
February 3, 2026
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July 31, 2018
Keeping your clients out of sales tax trouble and in compliance are very important, of course, but if clients slip up without your knowledge and run late on tax payments, one thing they may never see coming is a seizure of property.
July 20, 2018
The provision in the new Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) limiting itemized deductions for state and local taxes – known by the acronym of SALT – remains a sticky issue months after enactment of the law. Now four states along the eastern seaboard ...
July 19, 2018
In the immediate term, the case has been remanded to the South Dakota Supreme Court for further review. In other words, assuming the final review isn’t a big surprise, South Dakota will be free to enforce its existing law as presented to SCOTUS in the ...
July 18, 2018
Recently, Avalara interviewed tax and technology consultant Brian Weaver, managing partner of Brian Weaver Consulting LLC, a firm serving client needs in transaction taxes, tax technology and taxation systems, and Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) compliance.
July 16, 2018
While the South Dakota law which lead to the Supreme Court ruling envisions a $100,000 annual sales threshold, multiple large U.S. businesses as well as organizations such as the National Taxpayers Union Foundation have expressed their reservations or ...
July 12, 2018
Wolters Kluwer Tax & Accounting is offering the timely live webinar, Sales Tax Nexus – Post Wayfair, hosted by internationally recognized tax expert Mark Friedlich, Esq, CPA and Senior Director Corporate Indirect Tax at Wolters Kluwer Tax & ...
July 12, 2018
There used to be a time when brick and mortar stores thought they were losing ground to upstarts like Amazon, who initially didn’t charge sales tax because Amazon didn’t have a physical presence in the state where the sale was made. Eventually Amazon ...
July 3, 2018
The Court explicitly rejected the requirement that a remote seller must have a physical presence in a state before that state or its localities could require sales tax collection. A majority of the Court swept aside the rules that guided this area of ...
June 22, 2018
The Supreme Court has ruled the physical presence standard it upheld in Quill Corp. v. North Dakota (1992) is “unsound and incorrect.” That means states are allowed to tax businesses that don’t have a physical presence in the state.
June 22, 2018
On Thursday, the U.S. Supreme Court announced its decision in the South Dakota v. Wayfair, Inc. case to overturn the 1992 Quill, Corp. v. North Dakota nexus holding that a company must have a physical presence in a state before it can be held liable ...
June 21, 2018
The Supreme Court on Thursday standardized taxing rules for traditional retailers and online transactions, ruling that states and localities may collect sales taxes on all purchases over the internet. By a 5-4 vote, the justices that ruled that online sellers can be required to collect state and local taxes from customers even if the internet...…
June 19, 2018
For years, accountants have heard that our profession is changing. With the advent of new technology, we no longer will be data entry specialists or spend excess billable hours working on tax returns; instead, we have to morph ourselves into trusted ...