Posts Tagged ‘sales tax’

Are you confident your business is sales tax compliant? After the Supreme Court of the United States ruled in favor of the state in South Dakota v. Wayfair, Inc., it’s not uncommon for tax compliance to come into question. Our partner, Avalara, provides a cloud-based application that includes functionality to accurately calculate various types of […]

Do you use Oracle’s Depot Repair module and a third-party tax engine? Your customers need to know the total amount of the service order, including any tax, before approving the service order? With standard Oracle EBS tax functionality, there is no tax calculation in the Depot Repair form.  You do not know the tax results […]

Editor’s Note: This guest blog post comes courtesy of Jeff Stanton with Avalara. Although the Streamlined Sales and Use Tax Agreement was established in 2000 and now has 24 member states, many businesses still don’t understand what it is or how it could improve their sales tax compliance efficiency. It’s worth exploring: If you qualify as a volunteer […]

Editor’s Note: This guest blog post comes courtesy of Gail Cole with Avalara. There’s been a lot of focus in recent months about economic nexus, but there are many ways for a state to tax a remote sale. Economic nexus is the preferred method du jour because of South Dakota v. Wayfair, Inc. (June 21, 2018). In Wayfair, […]

Editor’s Note: This guest blog post comes courtesy of Gail Cole with Avalara. Approximately 13 states already hold at least some marketplace facilitators or providers liable for the tax on third-party sales. By this time next year, there’s a good chance every state with a general sales tax will do the same. After Amazon started collecting and remitting […]

Editor’s Note: This guest blog post comes courtesy of Gail Cole with Avalara. Will incentives for voluntary sales tax collection go the way of the dodo bird?  To encourage voluntarily collection, some states provide perks to remote retailers that volunteer to collect and remit sales tax. Are such incentives still needed now that states have been granted the […]

Editor’s Note: This guest blog post comes courtesy of Gail Cole with Avalara. Variable in all states, sales tax laws can appear mercurial at times. Washington state’s on-again, off-again taxes on candy and bottled water, for example, could make a person’s head spin. Yet tax laws can also seem horribly rooted in the past, as is often the […]

Editor’s Note: This guest blog post comes courtesy of Gail Cole with Avalara. It’s often assumed that services aren’t subject to sales tax, because in many states they aren’t. But more and more states are taxing services these days, in a trend that’s likely to continue. There’s a good reason for that. Americans now spend less on tangible […]

Editor’s Note: This guest blog post comes courtesy of Gail Cole with Avalara. When the Supreme Court of the United States ruled that a business’s “economic and virtual contacts” with a state could enable that state to tax the business’s sales, it opened the floodgates for change. What does this mean for ecommerce businesses that sell into multiple […]

Editor’s Note: This guest blog post comes courtesy of Gail Cole with Avalara. Since there’s something inexplicably festive about not having to pay sales tax on normally taxable purchases, sales tax holidays are aptly named. For consumers, these events are all about savings. For retailers, they’re about a whole lot more. Sales tax compliance is always complicated, especially […]

Editor’s Note: This guest blog post comes courtesy of Gail Cole with Avalara. The U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in South Dakota v. Wayfair, Inc. is a game changer for online sellers and other businesses that sell across state lines. A state can only tax a business that has nexus, a significant connection to the state. For decades, nexus […]

On June 21, 2018, the Supreme Court of the United States in South Dakota v. Wayfair, Inc. ruled that physical presence in a state is no longer required of a company before a state can require the out-of-state seller to collect and remit sales and use taxes in that state. In the case of South […]