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The State-By-State Complexities Of Sales Tax Compliance

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Retailers that want to sell merchandise nationwide must pay attention to how each state’s tax code treats their goods. For example, products considered to be exempt medical necessities in some states might be taxed at high rates in others. 100: Minimum number of local tax codes in Alaska.

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Will eSports And Other Online Businesses Spike Digital Taxes?

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Historians and economists regularly look to tax policies to get a sense of what happened within a particular industry, society or country. No doubt the chronicles to come about the rise of the internet age and the spread of digital culture will include serious treatment of tax issues. Taxing Confusion. billion in 2022.”.

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Who Pays A Higher Price For Online Sales Tax?

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Wayfair case that allowed states and individual cities to launch tax policies aimed at remote sellers and marketplaces is still reverberating in 2019 and will likely affect online retail in 2020. In Q3 2019, 14 states started collected online sales tax and 11 more followed in October. eBay Makes a Deal.

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Big Tech Compliance Tracker: Amazon Looks To Increase Fees With Digital Tax In Spain; Google Might Make Search Inaccessible In Australia

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Amazon Plans to Raise Fees for Companies in Wake of New Digital Tax in Spain . After Spain’s government levied a new digital tax, Amazon plans to increase fees by 3 percent starting in April for Spanish firms harnessing its platform, Reuters reported. Google Raises Specter of Making Search Inaccessible in Australia.

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Finance Ministry: India Retailers With $7M+ Sales Must Accept Debit Cards

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The finance ministry in India passed a new regulation saying that companies with sales of more than ?50 The new regulation went into effect on Jan. 50 crores (about $7 million) will have to offer customers electronic payment modes like debit cards, powered by RuPay, according to a report by LiveMint. .

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How Cannabidiol Products Are Infusing Luxury Retail

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The legal cannabis industry is large as of the start of 2019 – and, according to most experts, it’s on track to get even larger. Somewhat less apparent, however, are the complexities that the “legalish” status of cannabis consumption creates for retailers that one might not immediately associate with legalized marijuana.

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Colorado’s Marijuana Industry Tops $6B

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The Colorado Department of Revenue has revealed that the state’s regulated marijuana industry sales have topped $6 billion since sales began in 2014. In addition, taxes generated by the industry grew by nearly 8 percent last year. Last year, regulated marijuana sales in Colorado were nearly $1.55 billion the previous year.

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