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Sales tax and Marketplaces: Who owns the responsibility?

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Once upon a time, selling online meant little more than setting up a website and sending both marketing efforts and sales direct to your customers from you. jurisdictions also involves dealing with sales tax. On a marketplace platform, who has responsibility for the sales tax? But selling in U.S.

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Sales tax and nonprofits

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Nonprofits are often thought to be exempt from sales taxes, but is that correct? Other stats say more than 2 million charities exist that are tax-exempt according to Internal Revenue Service rules. Are non-profits exempt from sales tax obligations? These same organizations are not necessarily exempt from sales tax.

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What’s new in sales tax?

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There’s always something changing in the world of tax, especially sales tax. New sales taxes are progressing in some states but not all. The 2% statewide sales tax proposed would be on top of any local taxes and would not exempt groceries, medicine or other items that have been exempted in previous sales tax bills.

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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. In the trendiest sales tax news (aside, of course, from Florida finally passing economic nexus legislation), Connecticut lawmakers have proposed a digital advertising services tax similar, experts say, to one recently enacted in Maryland.

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Cancelling a sales tax registration

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Last time, we looked at trailing nexus and a few reasons you might want to cancel your sales tax registration with a state. One of the more ironclad reasons is that your business has closed (it seems to be the only reason you can cancel in Maine and North Carolina). So, is cancelling your sales tax registration simple?

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What’s new for state sales and use taxes

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There’s always something changing in the world of tax, especially sales tax. Inflation and other spiraling prices have driven states’ lawmakers to consider relief via sales and other taxes. and nearly halve the state sales tax on groceries, to 3.5%. Give us a break. Additional Updates.

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Software, SaaS and Sales Tax

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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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