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When One State’s Tax-Exempt Necessity Is Another’s High-Tax Discretionary Purchase

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Sales taxes empower governments to maintain critical public services, but they can also make medical essentials too expensive for those who need them. Campaigns against taxing obligatory items are spreading across the United States, forcing states to rethink their revenue generation decisions. Sales taxes’ price tags.

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What Wayfair’s Lawyer Says About The Wayfair v. South Dakota Decision

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Wayfair ruling allowed counties, states and municipalities to pass laws to tax out-of-state sellers and the eCommerce marketplaces that serve them, but the ruling did not disclose specifications on what such laws must look like. Governments and businesses have recently been fighting in court over disputes regarding remote seller tax policies.

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As The Online Tax Man Cometh, Will Smaller Retailers Embrace Marketplaces?

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As commerce has, increasingly, moved into the digital realm, and even the smallest merchants have gone omnichannel, tax policy has evolved as well — although perhaps it may be more apt to say tax policy has scrambled to keep up. Thus far, a bit more than a year after the ruling, tax policy remains fragmented.

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Online Sales Tax’s ‘Pivotal,’ Post-Wayfair 2019 — And What Lies Ahead

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In an interview with PYMNTS, Liz Armbruester, senior vice president of Global Compliance at Avalara , said 2019 represented a watershed year for tax compliance as states embraced the economic nexus model and passed marketplace facilitator laws. Imposing state taxes on out-of-state sellers is now the new normal, she said.

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Small banks: Big challenges and big opportunities

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At the same time, the technology can reduce to seconds the time it takes for routine tasks like adding information from tax returns and financial spreading. Check out our 1071 compliance resources. I can’t pay them enough to come to Henderson, Texas, or Lebanon, Missouri, for example,’“ Kirby said. “And The result?

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Big Tech Compliance Tracker: Google Faces Questions Over Digital Ads; Australian Watchdog Says Facebook’s Proposed Ban On News Sharing Would Be Its Loss

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EU Undecided Whether To Appeal Ruling Upholding Apple’s Irish Tax Breaks . EU Will Implement Digital Tax Next Year Unless Global Rules Pass . The European Union will propose a digital tax in early 2021 if governments don’t reach a worldwide consensus on such taxes for the online era, EU President Ursula von der Leyen said recently. “We

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Fintech Fundings: 12 Companies Raise $240 million Week Ending June 25

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Payments risk & compliance management. Canopy Tax (formerly Beanstalk). Tax & accounting practice management. Louis, Missouri. Tags: Tax, advisor platform, marketing, client services, accounting, SMB. Source: The Oregonian. HQ: Palo Alto, California. Latest round: $12 million. Total raised: $21.5