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Can an eCommerce platform alone manage sales tax?

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(We generally recommend that companies start watching their nexus requirements when they hit the $100,000 in sales in a state. Companies also must always consider how physical presence , such as offices or even just sales reps, can create nexus.) Examples of states with home rule are Alabama, Louisiana, Illinois, Colorado and Alaska.

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Understanding sales tax permits

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Now it’s time to register with the states to collect and remit sales tax. You complete your sales tax registrations and file them with the departments of revenue or taxation in each state. These registrations are called sales tax permits, sometimes licenses. The correct type of tax. Where to begin?

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Deadlines, Deadlines, Deadlines.Understanding the Nuances to Maintaining Your Sales Tax Calendar

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Sales tax, unlike other types of taxes, has many deadlines, not once or twice a year, but often every month and it doesn’t fall on the same day for every business, or state. Not to mention, the process of reporting sales tax and the amount of information required on each return varies with each state and local jurisdiction.

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Understanding use tax

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One such phrase is “sales and use tax.”. We sure know what “salestax is. What about Use Tax? Use tax is defined ?as as a tax on the storage, use or consumption of a taxable item or service on which no sales tax has been paid. Use tax or sales tax is due on a sale, but not both.

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Risks of Non-Compliance

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Rolling the dice with sales tax compliance can backfire in a big way. Keep reading to see some recent sales tax missteps that had big costs. Tax air-or. New York responded that receipts from sales of services rendered by air inflation machines are subject to sales tax. An inconvenient truth.

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5 tips for managing U.S. sales tax from overseas

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It also offers complex sales tax obligations you may not know about. If you sell in Europe, you know about the value-added tax (VAT) on online sales, which is applied at each stage of the supply chain and with rates generally applied at a country level and exceptions on certain products. offers you a huge new market.

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Understanding the Pieces to Your Sales Tax Compliance Puzzle

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In a little more than three years since the Supreme Court’s Wayfair decision , multi-state sales tax has gone from a simple obligation for some companies that were based solely in one state to a nightmare of complying with 50 different states’ sales tax rules. sales tax or use tax).

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