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Multi-channel selling sales tax: Direct/retail sales

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Nearly half the attendees of a recent TaxConnex webinar on multi-channel selling use direct/retail eCommerce as their main avenue of sales. Economic nexus has emerged as a burning issue for many online retailers since the 2018 decision of South Dakota vs. Wayfair , in which the U.S. 1, and Alaska is working hard on the concept.

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2024: What’s coming up in sales tax

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For instance, Colorado recently introduced a contentious fee slapped on all retail deliveries in the state where at least one tangible personal property item is subject to sales tax. By the way, there’s also a chance that Alaska will drop from the ranks of NOMAD states and institute its own statewide sales tax this year.

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Hot Topics: Economic Nexus Thresholds and Reporting Requirements | TaxConnex

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Physical nexus standards – such as having offices, staff or inventory in a state – had long mandated that retailers had to collect and remit a state’s sales tax. Of Alaska’s 162 municipal governments, approximately 110 already levy some variety of sales tax.) Not all home rule states have been so friendly.

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States with local economic nexus - a review

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Among states without a state-wide sales tax, Alaska is unique in that several of its communities are banding together to establish economic nexus rules, effectively creating a partial state sales tax. A glance at the details of local taxes can be intimidating if you care at all about your sales tax compliance. Local ‘nightmares’?

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NOMAD States: The Latest on Sales Tax

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When it relates to sales tax, the NOMAD states refer to the five American states without a statewide sales tax: New Hampshire, Oregon, Montana, Alaska, and Delaware. Alaska: Soon the acronym might be “NOMD”: Alaska seems to be inching toward a statewide sales tax. Alaska Gov. But what does it mean? That’s not all.

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Does sales tax apply to memberships?

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Gym and fitness chains and warehouse retailers, for example, use the internet to sell memberships to their franchised businesses all over the country. Ongoing discussions in Alaska to start a state-wide sales tax have pointed to taxing gym memberships as a service , not as goods. States don’t take membership sales tax lightly.

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Monthly State Sales and Use Tax Update

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Alaska has long heard rumblings of a statewide sales tax. Now Alaska has a bill that would adopt a 2% state sales and use tax and enter the Streamlined Sales and Use Tax Agreement. Collection of the taxes would be centralized to the Alaska Department of Revenue, with proceeds remitted back to municipalities. Developing updates.