Sales tax holidays can be a welcome benefit for consumers, but for ecommerce businesses, they often add complexity to the already challenging task of managing sales tax compliance. Thankfully, these holidays occur only a few times a year. However, each state handles them differently, which means you’ll need to be well-informed. It’s crucial to understand…
Whether to record the sales tax portion of a refund or to provide greater transparency to your customers about the components of their purchase, there are several reasons you might need to calculate sales tax backwards. For example, if you’ve lost a receipt, and you’re looking at your credit card statement, you would only see…
Many of the states’ Departments of Revenue offer mailing lists related to sales tax. Signing up for these lists will allow a state to email you with news that relates to sales tax, use tax, and other related topics. We’ve done our best to gather links to the mailing lists for each state, so that…
Dealing with sales tax can be tricky, especially when it comes to sales tax exemption certificates. These are special forms that allow entities to make purchases without paying sales tax. But it’s not enough just to gather these forms from customers. Your business needs to make sure they’re up-to-date, complete, and valid. Whether you’re selling…
2023 was a year of accelerated change for ecommerce companies. More than any time since the advent of the mass-market smartphone, technology has leaped forward in ways that will directly impact how ecommerce businesses operate and grow. For that reason, it’s more important than ever to have a clear plan for leveraging developing trends in…
Affiliate marketers, third-party publishers, and partners operating independently of vendors have provided a valuable cornerstone for the Internet economy since its inception in the 1990s. While that has not fundamentally changed, the processes, technologies, and policies surrounding affiliate marketing have changed quite a bit. Sales tax laws around online sales have been overhauled in almost…
If you operate an e-commerce business, especially if you already collect sales tax in Colorado, you’ve probably heard about the new Colorado Retail Delivery Fees. It’s not a new tax per se, but the fee is being collected on all orders shipped into the state of Colorado. Colorado Retail Delivery Fees At-a-Glance Implementation Because the…
It’s been more than two years since the first substantial wave of impacts hit the economy, and we’re still feeling the aftershocks. Supply chains continue to buckle under the pressure of increased demand and months of disruption across the globe, and fulfillment has become an urgent, ongoing concern for most companies. A recent Accenture survey…
Sales tax on clothes varies significantly between states, with different tax rates, tax holidays, and general regulations on the level at which clothing is taxed. In some states, clothing is completely tax-exempt, while in others there are luxury thresholds at which clothing becomes taxable. In this guide, we’ll take a closer look at these thresholds…
What is nexus? It’s the legal term used by states to determine the taxable relationship between a business and that state. To collect tax on sales made by a business, nexus needs to be established. For the better part of 30 years, sales tax nexus was fairly simple. Based on the precedent set in Supreme…