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Drive Down Your Business Taxes with Local Transportation Cost Deductions

RogerRossmeisl

Understanding how to deduct transportation costs could significantly reduce the tax burden on your small business. You and your employees likely incur various local transportation expenses each year, and they have tax implications. Lets start by defining local transportation.

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Maximizing Employee Transportation Fringe Benefits

RogerRossmeisl

There are some nice tax breaks for transportation-related employee fringe benefits. If your employer offers these tax-favored fringes, you should probably take advantage of them by signing up. Heres a quick summary of the current federal tax treatment of transportation-related benefits.

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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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Managing Transactional Taxes as Your Business Grows Globally

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spares you the complexities and headaches of sales tax thresholds. And you’d be right – except that in many countries you’d instead run into value-added tax (VAT) on transactions. VAT is an indirect tax on consumption, ultimately payable by the final consumer of the goods or services. You may think that selling outside the U.S.

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Colorado: Fee or tax?

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The fee will apply when at least one item is subject to sales or use tax and the delivery is mailed, shipped or delivered by motor vehicle. Payment is due at the same time the seller’s sales tax return is due. While termed a fee, it functions as a tax,” adds the Tax Foundation. Popular it’s not. Will the fee stand?

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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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New York Governor Signs 2025-2026 Budget That Includes Business Tax Hikes

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While there are no major tax changes in the budget bill, several items are worthy of note for taxpayers. Including a payroll tax hike and new rules related to partnership audits. Below is a summary of some of the more important tax changes. However, certain smaller employers will receive a 50% reduction in their payroll taxes.