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The November 30, 2023, opinion of a New York administrative law judge in In the Matter of the Petition of Edward A. and Doris Zelinsky upholds the state’s so-called income tax “convenience rule” with an expanded legal...more
Law firms periodically receive requests for advice from CPAs regarding a client’s need to come into compliance with the relatively new and sometimes confusing “economic nexus” or “Wayfair” rules for selling goods or providing...more
In the post-Wayfair age, the challenges to a jurisdiction’s ability to tax have decreased. However, the pandemic brought a slew of new tax considerations and emergency rules and legislation, which have resulted in a steady...more
In determining whether the commerce clause of the U.S. Constitution prohibits a state’s taxation of a remote seller, the U.S. Supreme Court for decades has upheld a tax if (1) there is a substantial nexus between the taxing...more
The U.S. Supreme Court decision in South Dakota v. Wayfair, Inc. 138 S. Ct. 2080 (2018) upended how businesses think about state tax compliance. In Wayfair, the Court upheld a South Dakota sales tax law that taxed...more
We have been living with the pandemic for nearly two years. During these two years, much has changed in the workplace and how companies conduct business. Teleworking is certainly one aspect of our “new normal,” however, many...more
In June 2018, the United States Supreme Court in Wayfair held that the physical presence of the taxpayer was no longer a prerequisite for imposition of a sales tax. In so doing, the Court blessed the concept of “economic...more
Why is State and Local Tax (SALT) due diligence important in mergers and acquisitions? Someone else’s issues may be your headache and cost you a lot of money!...more
The Supreme Court of the United States’ decision in Wayfair, in June 2018, changed the landscape for sales and use taxes nexus for on-line retailers and remote sellers. Due to budgetary deficits the states are facing due to...more
This article is the first of a three-part series regarding the State and Local Tax consequences of doing business in multiple states. Part 1 will discuss Nexus, Part 2 will discuss Voluntary Disclosures, and Part 3 will...more
This article is the second of a three-part series regarding the State and Local Tax consequences of doing business in multiple states. This article will discuss Voluntary Disclosure, Part 1 discussed Nexus and Part 3 will...more
Mending Walls- “Good fences make good neighbors,” or so Robert Frost’s neighbor from “beyond the hill” says to him when “on a day” they “meet to walk the line and set the wall between” them “once again.” The neighbor...more
Online Tax Consideration Expected to Make Headway in 2021 - Online taxation will be a hotly contested issue in the 2021 Florida legislative session, potentially reaching into every industry that sells goods and services...more
On December 9, Kay Miller Hobart and Madison Felder filed an amicus brief on behalf of the Council On State Taxation (COST) and its more than 500 members in the closely watched case of Amazon Services, LLC v. South Carolina...more
Sales Tax Obligations — Businesses with a Physical Presence in a State - It should come as no surprise that almost all states require businesses with a physical presence in a state and that sell goods or services in the...more
On June 30, 2020, the Tennessee legislature passed SB 2932 which reduces the economic nexus sales threshold for remote sellers from $500,000 to $100,000 in the past 12-month period. It also makes the same reduction in the...more
This post is part of our ongoing series on issues that municipalities may face in 2020. Will digital streaming services such as Netflix become a source of revenue for municipalities this year? Recent legal decisions may...more
Most states impose sales or use tax on tangible personal property sold or consumed in the state. However, five states – Alaska, Delaware Montana, New Hampshire, and Oregon – do not impose such a tax....more
Nexus for Ohio sales / use tax collection expands effective August 1, 2019 to include out-of-state sellers and marketplace facilitators that deliver at least $100,000 of sales or 200 transactions to Ohio. Ohio’s General...more
Since the US Supreme Court’s June 21, 2018, decision in South Dakota vs. Wayfair, Inc. , many of the 45 sales tax-collecting states have been making moves to put laws and processes in place for tax collections for...more
The Virginia Department of Taxation issued guidelines for the new laws requiring remote sellers, marketplace sellers, and marketplace facilitators to register and collect Virginia sales and use taxes. (See Guidelines for...more
Last year, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in South Dakota v. Wayfair that economic nexus is constitutional for sales tax purposes. South Dakota’s economic nexus statute at issue in the case included an economic threshold of at...more
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On June 21, 2018, in its South Dakota v. Wayfair, 138 S. Ct. 2080 (2018), decision, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed its “physical presence” nexus test established over a quarter century earlier in Quill Corp. v. North Dakota,...more
Since the U.S. Supreme Court issued its decision in South Dakota v. Wayfair, 138 S.Ct. 2080 (2018), this past summer reversing its long-standing “physical presence” nexus test under Quill Corp. v. North Dakota, 504 U.S. 298...more