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Q-commerce and sales tax: the latest

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Q-commerce is also likely to start sparking long-term questions about sales tax. Tax treatment Q-commerce may seem futuristically fast, but its sales tax calculation remains the same so far as its older cousin e-commerce. There are 10,000-plus tax jurisdictions in the U.S.,

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What's New in State Sales and Use Taxes?

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There’s always something changing in the world of tax, especially sales tax. Blue bayou: Sales tax won’t be getting simpler in Louisiana any time soon. Colorado voters in the city of Littleton have passed a 0.75% hike in the city's sales tax, the first increase in the tax in nearly half a century.

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Sales tax on shipping: latest updates

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Ecommerce couldn’t exist without shipping (and probably not without shipping’s partner “handling,” either), but do either incur sales tax? As is often the case in sales tax, it depends on what, how and where. Portions of packages that contain non-taxable or exempt items get a break on the tax on the S&H.

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Groceries vs. restaurant food: Digging into the sales tax differences

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Youd think that if you eat it, its sales tax treatment would be the same at least similar across different states and given methods of preparation of the food. Pre-packaged food such as canned drinks, bottled beverages, packaged snacks, frozen meals and canned products can also be groceries for purposes of sales tax.

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Seeing green: States learn the importance of sales tax

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Economic nexus is now pretty much the law of the land for all states with a statewide sales tax. States – and their cities and towns that receive portions of their sales tax revenue – have scored big. Midland County, Texas bettered its first-quarter sales tax haul by two-thirds year over year. Numbers are up. Pennsylvania ?hauled

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The latest in funny sales tax laws | TaxConnex

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General tax laws are strange. Maybe sales tax laws make more sense? In Florida, you can get a tax break for displaying a cow on your property. You can get a big tax break in New Mexico if you just live to 100. Louisiana lets small private aircrafts soar tax-free, and Connecticut extends that to bigger planes.

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Vitamins, supplements and sales tax – the latest

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For purposes of incurring sales tax in any state, that essentially translates into “sometimes.” In other instances, vitamins and supplements aren’t taxed at all. How do you handle sales tax liability if you sell vitamins, dietary supplements or other items in this nebulous category? And we don’t mean “sometimes.”

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