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5 States with the Lowest Combined Business Taxes

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One crucial factor to consider when selecting your business location is the tax environment. Business taxes can significantly impact your bottom line and overall profitability. The importance of business taxes As an entrepreneur, you face countless decisions when starting a business.

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State and Local Tax (SALT) Predictions for 2024

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State and local taxes, also often referred to as SALT, are one of the most dynamic areas of tax practice, with thousands of jurisdictions across the U.S. imposing increases or newly-created taxes on real or other property. In response to the dismissal of the earlier state lawsuit, Apple Inc.

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Is Tax Relief on the Horizon for Marijuana Businesses?

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By Joy Taylor, Kiplinger Consumer News Service (TNS) Businesses that sell marijuana have a heavy federal income tax burden. They are taxed on their income but can’t write off most of their business expenses. Legal marijuana businesses are an enforcement priority of the IRS. Look for more states to follow suit. _

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Legalization and Taxation of Cannabis

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Legalization of cannabis and how it would be taxed has been a discussion for many years. But as states continue to pass laws legalizing the sale of cannabis, the businesses trying to capitalize on the market are struggling with the complexities of taxation as it differs from other sales. Local sales tax rates apply as well.

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Last Week in Payroll: Summertime Tax Tips

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Summertime Tax Tips. Let’s go over a few summertime tax tips for payroll professionals this season: 1) Interns. Biden Administration issues tax proposals “Green Book.” The Department of the Treasury has issued detailed information about the Biden Administration’s tax proposals for fiscal year 2022 in its “ Green Book.”

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Lodging Tax Insanity — So Many Ways to Tax Accommodations

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Still, whatever discomfort I experience when booking a room has nothing on what lodging platforms have to endure to comply with the multitude of lodging tax requirements in the United States. We talk a lot about how complicated sales tax compliance is at the Avalara Tax Desk, and it is. Sometimes you just have to go with it.

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Maryland Digital Ad Tax Case Leaves States in Limbo, But Digital Taxes Aren’t Going Away

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The digital economy has caused an incredible shift in how jurisdictions create, administer, remit and audit indirect taxes. Over the last decade, businesses, governments, regulators and policy makers have all been trying to make sense of this new retail landscape. The tax levies a rate of 2.5%