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2024: What’s coming up in sales tax

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Weaker state revenue The kind of year it’s going to be for state coffers could greatly influence such future sales tax trends as new levies, tougher nexus thresholds and intensifying audits. States expected to be hit hardest by falling sales tax revenue are Idaho, South Dakota, Louisiana, South Carolina and Florida.

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What was new in October for state sales and use taxes

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Halstead Bead , a small craft and jewelry wholesaler, has filed an appeal with the Fifth Circuit in the ongoing challenge to Louisiana’s sales tax system, which requires remote sellers to comply with local tax laws for 63 parishes. Alaska voters in Nome have repealed that city’s summer seasonal sales tax. State updates.

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Four years since Wayfair: A trend takes hold

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Among states without a sales tax, Alaska municipalities were banding together to administer local sales taxes on remote commerce. Companies also wondered if they were collecting and remitting the correct sales tax – and if they were at risk for audit. When would states intensify audits? More states promised similar actions.

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Do you really understand economic nexus for sales tax?

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Louisiana worked to streamline its notoriously confusing sales tax environment; and Kansas?set In many states – notably Alaska – local jurisdictions are intensifying enforcement of sales tax nexus through home rule and other new sales tax laws. Illinois began requiring remote sellers with economic nexus?and

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Sales and Use Tax in 2020: A Look Back

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Alaska municipalities banded together to administer local sales taxes on remote commerce in July. Georgia, Louisiana, and Michigan required marketplace facilitators to collect and remit sales tax. Illinois announced expansion of its Audit Fast Track Resolution Program to most sales and miscellaneous tax audits.

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What happened in sales tax in 2022

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Alaska pondered its first statewide sales tax while proposals for higher local sales taxes were headed to ballots in November and before. In Louisiana, a federal court dismissed a lawsuit seeking to overturn the state’s decentralized sales tax collection system, saying it was filed in the wrong venue. Supreme Court.

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Sales Tax Issues for Online Retailers

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Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Colorado, and Louisiana are “home rule” states which permit the municipalities or counties to govern themselves with certain restrictions. Also, many states are hiring more sales tax auditors to audit more companies and identify related vendors who may not comply with sales tax.

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