TaxConnex

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Usually all retail sales of tangible personal property (TPP) are taxable, but many states have started to tax services. Who the customer is and what they’ll use the TPP for can create a sales tax exclusion, too, such as when selling to a church or government agency. They also take the burden of sales tax obligation off the seller.

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CPA Practice

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Cleveland-based top 15 accounting firm CBIZ acquired Erickson, Brown & Kloster, a full-service tax, accounting, and business consulting firm located in Colorado Springs, on Feb. Financial terms of the deal weren’t disclosed. We are pleased to welcome Phil Erickson, Jeff Rosacker, and the entire EBK team to CBIZ.”

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TaxConnex

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Sales tax compliance depends on many factors. One of the most important – and the most incessantly changing – is the tax rates that America’s thousands of jurisdictions impose. Exemptions can also seem whimsical: New York charges different sales tax on a bagel that’s sold as-is or has been toasted and smeared with cream cheese.

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CPA Practice

AUGUST 9, 2023

a provider of cloud-based tax compliance automation for businesses of all sizes, has been chosen by the state of Colorado, and its Avalara Tax Research system will provide the state’s tax rates and rules to its more than 300 sales tax jurisdictions. Avalara, Inc. ,

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CPA Practice

JULY 23, 2023

A Colorado man has been sentenced to 15 months in prison for evading the payment of more than $700,000 in employment taxes he owed to the IRS. After failing to collect from the businesses, the IRS assessed the tax against Stevens personally. In total, Stevens caused a tax loss of approximately $737,128.

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Patriot Software

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Back in 2020, Colorado voted to implement its own Paid Family and Medical Leave Insurance (FAMLI) program. And beginning in 2023, the Colorado paid family leave program takes effect. What does this mean for Colorado employers? It means you have a new payroll tax […] READ MORE.

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TaxConnex

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

It’s also safe to say that its storyline of repetition seems to echo what you must do, over and over and over, to comply with sales tax laws. It’s a doozy! – “Needlenose Ned” Ryerson There are multiple steps to make sure your sales tax compliance works well. The days you get over and over with sales tax are deadline days.

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TaxConnex

JANUARY 18, 2024

What’s the latest brewing today in sales tax? 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.)

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TaxConnex

DECEMBER 7, 2023

There’s always something changing in the world of tax, especially sales tax. Other popular terms included “tires” in New Hampshire, “couches” in Colorado, “furniture” in Missouri and “shoes” in Alabama. Gains in sales tax revenue are becoming spottier in general – especially on the local level – but not statewide everywhere.

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TaxConnex

OCTOBER 13, 2022

We’re fond of saying that nothing’s ever easy in sales tax. And here we’ll kick off our run toward Halloween with a look at one of the newest and trickiest areas of sales tax: electric vehicle chargers and charging. This new line of business raises a few sales tax questions, chiefly regarding the electricity flowing into the vehicles.

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TaxConnex

JUNE 9, 2022

What’s new in May for state sales and use taxes. There’s always something changing in the world of tax, especially sales tax. Exempting groceries from sales tax as American families struggle with inflation and other economic woes is politically tempting. million in taxes a year on the sale of groceries.

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TaxConnex

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

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. New York calls theirs a “sales tax certificate of authority.”

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CPA Practice

MAY 24, 2023

Boston Market is down to three locations in Colorado — Westminster, Aurora and Colorado Springs — and its owner, Engage Brands, has let a big stack of bills pile up from its landlords, vendors, employees and even the state of Colorado. in unpaid sales and payroll taxes. in unpaid sales and payroll taxes.

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CPA Practice

APRIL 5, 2024

Earlier this week WalletHub released a study that shows which states’ residents have the highest and lowest tax burden , measured as the proportion of total personal income that residents pay toward state and local taxes. The study looks at how much tax the average person is estimated to pay in each state throughout their lifetime.

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TaxConnex

APRIL 19, 2022

Sales tax has a universe of changing conditions. What are the sales tax ramifications? has possibly the most complex sales tax regime. Each state sets its own sales tax rules, often with widely varying approaches. Each state sets its own sales tax rules, often with widely varying approaches. Enter taxes.

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TaxConnex

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Just don’t let sales tax turn the situation into a nightmare. Consider: Your new product is not taxed but should have been. At an average sales tax rate of 8%, that’s more than $29,000 in uncollected sales tax in just one jurisdiction. Remember: You don’t want to collect too much sales tax on your new products, either.

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TaxConnex

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

A job as intimidating as setting up a system to handle your sales tax obligations can be a lot easier if you have an idea how long it will take. As with most aspects of sales tax, there are no fixed answers, but we can give you an idea. Part of your decision in this case rests with how long you’ve had sales tax exposure.

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TaxConnex

OCTOBER 19, 2022

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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TaxConnex

JANUARY 3, 2023

Next summer will mark five years since the Supreme Court ignited economic sales tax nexus with the South Dakota v. Many businesses are still trying to figure out how to manage the resulting obligations, but one thing’s clear: Now every state with a sales tax has economic nexus. Wayfair, Inc et al decision. Stay tuned.

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CPA Practice

OCTOBER 11, 2023

And while fees aren’t exactly sales and use taxes, they do greatly increase compliance complexity for indirect tax teams. So far this year, states including Maryland, Maine, Oregon, Colorado and California have enacted legislation that attaches new environmental fees to plastic, paper, glass and metallic packaging materials.

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TaxConnex

APRIL 4, 2024

Now, almost six years after the landmark Wayfair case ignited sales tax obligations for more remote sellers, one of those numbers might be falling out of favor. Since the Supreme Court’s decision in 2018, almost all states with economic nexus opted to have dollar volume of sales as one trigger for sales tax obligations.

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TaxConnex

AUGUST 30, 2022

Many tech companies consider themselves a service provider exempt from sales and use tax. But the 2018 Wayfair decision expanded the definition of nexus and and more of these businesses are now subject to sales and use tax collection, including on one of their product staples: apps. What about the sales tax?

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TaxConnex

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

How does sales tax fit into this? Sales tax when dollars and other “fiat money” are involved is clear: there is no sales tax due when acquiring the currency, and the currency can be used as legal tender to satisfy the purchase price of goods and services including any applicable sales tax due on the purchase price.

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TaxConnex

MAY 18, 2023

Sales tax can be complicated, with rules that frequently change and disparate application across the nation’s thousands and thousands of tax jurisdictions. Sales tax, even at its simplest, can seem like a patchwork puzzle. And that’s before you throw in odd rules and tax loopholes. Colorado taxes napkins and silverware.

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TaxConnex

AUGUST 15, 2023

There’s always something changing in the world of tax, especially sales tax. Midyear sales tax. The Tax Foundation released its “State and Local Sales Tax Rates, Midyear 2023” report of the 45 states (and the District of Columbia) that collect statewide sales taxes and the 38 states where local sales taxes are collected.

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CTP

MAY 8, 2024

The Tax Cuts and Jobs Acts (TCJA) of 2018 stirred up mixed responses by introducing a $10,000 cap on state and local tax (SALT) deductions for individual taxpayers. As of today, 19 states have enacted pass-through entity taxes. Prior to TCJA, many states did not have a PTE tax or the tax rate was much lower.

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TaxConnex

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

One state’s efforts to join the Sales and Use Tax System (SUTS) and another state’s lawsuit against a world-famous auction house highlight recent challenges in the sales tax world. 5 in Colorado , more than half (55 percent) of home-rule self-collecting municipalities had signed the agreement and were onboarding the system.

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TaxConnex

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

There’s always something changing in the world of tax, especially sales tax. Sales tax on digital products was the subject of a white paper draft at the Multistate Tax Commission’s annual meetings in Anchorage, Alaska. Sales tax revenues continue their robust pandemic-driven rise in many states. Virtual reality.

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TaxConnex

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Think you’re the only one worried about sales tax compliance? According to our third annual Sales Tax Market Survey you’re not. We have] difficulty with our tax team having extremely limited knowledge of the products and the product teams not caring enough to take the time to properly classify.” Too much staff time needed.

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TaxConnex

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Hard to believe if you’ve ever dealt with sales tax jurisdictions, but they will actually give you a break on paying your sales tax in the form of vendor compensations and discounts. Colorado also favors small businesses with its discount, Kansas gives special discounts to retailers in certain other states and jurisdictions.

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TaxConnex

MAY 19, 2022

Given the complexity that already exists regarding sales tax, it’d be great if states were the only jurisdictions that levied them. Local sales are becoming an increasing burden for online sellers as cities, counties and towns nationwide constantly tinker with their own sales taxes and other jurisdictions create new economic nexus rules.

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Cherry Bekaert

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Colorado The Colorado Department of Revenue (DOR) recently created an informational section on its website specifically for the state’s pass-through entity (PTE) Tax election. Starting in 2023, an electing partnership’s Minnesota PTE Tax is computed on the total distributive income of Minnesota resident partners.

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TaxConnex

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

If your business sells software or software-as-a-service (SaaS), you deal with one of the most complex sales tax situations, potentially without even realizing it. Your sales tax obligation and liability begin with where you have nexus , a connection between your company and a taxing authority or jurisdiction.

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TaxConnex

DECEMBER 29, 2022

New sources of tax revenue, old ones robust but sputtering in spots, tax holidays as political tools amid inflation: It’s been a year of new trends in sales tax. Heading into the new year, state sales tax revenues were up coast to coast, often by double-digit percentages. Add that U.S. Too much or too little?

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TaxConnex

MARCH 22, 2022

Collecting and remitting sales tax to states and other tax jurisdictions is time consuming and can be expensive. Somebody can: the states and tax jurisdictions themselves. collection discount to help with the costs of managing sales tax.?If Slightly more than half the states offer various discounts for sales tax filers.

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TaxConnex

JANUARY 11, 2022

It’s one of the most important aspects of an online business – and one of the wackiest when trying to determine whether sales tax applies or not. Many states say that when the contents of a shipment are taxable, so is the shipping cost; similarly, when items in a shipment are exempt from sales tax, so is the cost of shipping.

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TaxConnex

DECEMBER 30, 2021

Sales tax in 2021, though, seemed to move in only one direction: It intensified as even more states hopped on the economic nexus bandwagon and the sales tax burden for online businesses grew. Here’s a look back at some of 2021’s biggest developments in sales tax. Other states intensified their sales tax moves.

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