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Services: Taxable or not?

TaxConnex

In sales tax calculation, you deal with the “hard” and the “less-hard.” Figuring out sales tax obligations for goods (aka, tangible personal property, or TPP) is the less-hard part; you merely have to bear in mind that every state that taxes TPP does it a little differently. Services, on the other hand, are the hard calculation.

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Sales Tax on Shipping: When Does it Apply?

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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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Dean Dorton and VonLehman to Combine on Jan. 1

CPA Practice

The firm will operate as Dean Dorton and provide accounting, business advisory, and professional services to clients from offices in North Carolina, Indiana, Ohio, and Kentucky. Established in 1946, VonLehman is a full-service CPA and business advisory firm with offices in Kentucky, Ohio, and Indiana.

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What's new in May for state sales and use taxes

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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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Court Invalidates IRS Micro-Captive Transactions Notice: Now What?

Withum

District Court in Tennessee invalidated IRS Notice 2016-66 (November 2016) , which announced the IRS view that certain micro-captive insurance transactions are transactions of interest (essentially tax shelter transactions) and that they are subject to the special reporting regime applicable to so-called reportable transactions. Contact Us.

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The latest on sales tax on shipping charges (part 2)

TaxConnex

Shipping is indispensable to eCommerce yet sales tax on it remains a mishmash of regulations across the states. In our previous blog, we looked at how exemptions, the taxability of the item being shipped and selling into tax-free states affect sales tax on shipping.

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