Sales Tax

While all states penalize businesses for late and incorrect sales tax returns, close to 30 incentivize timely filing by offering a sales tax filing discount to businesses that file returns and remit payments by the due date. Two states even offer ...

If SCOTUS decides in favor of South Dakota, that decision would pave the way for all states to tax remote sales. Exactly how they would do that is, at this point, unclear.

The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to consider a case that has the potential to change how states can tax sales by ecommerce merchants and other out-of-state sellers. The case, South Dakota v. Wayfair, Inc., challenges the Court's decision in Quill Corp. v

Historically, state budgets have relied heavily on sales and use taxes, emphasized by the fact that aggregate sales and use tax collections account for over 30 percent of total state tax revenues. Sales and use taxes are some of the most stable and ...

Currently, the US treats cryptocurrency as property. The IRS requires that the value of cryptocurrency be reported in US dollars with the fair market value determined at the time of payment or receipt. This calls for specific record keeping ...

Many small and mid-size businesses hire accountants and bookkeepers with the expectation they’ll help prevent an audit. Unfortunately, you can’t guarantee your clients won’t be audited for sales and use tax. No one can: States need sales and use tax ...

The IRS says that for the 2018 income tax filing season, taxpayers with the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) and the Additional Child Tax Credit (ACTC) will likely see delays in their refunds.

The IRS has announced that it will officially begin accepting returns for the 2017 tax year on January 29, 2018 (IR-2018-01, 1/4/18). This is a little later than usual to give the nation’s tax collection agency enough time to ensure security and ...