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What The Streamlined Sales And Use Tax Agreement Means After Wayfair

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Economic nexus and marketplace facilitator tax policies rolled out following the 2018 South Dakota v. Wayfair ruling have made tax compliance challenges highly visible. Struggles to understand and fulfill tax obligations are not new — states have worked for decades to manage these compliance difficulties.

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What ‘Patchwork’ eCommerce Taxes Mean For Black Friday – And Beyond

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As has been well-reported in this space, the regulatory landscape is changing for companies in the wake of the 2018 Supreme Court decision captioned South Dakota v. There are 12,000 jurisdictions, Peterson told PYMNTS – and that’s the easy part of grappling with tax compliance. The hard part?

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Who Pays A Higher Price For Online Sales Tax?

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The 2018 South Dakota v. 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.

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Confronting Wayfair’s Unanswered Questions

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The 2018 South Dakota v. Marketplace facilitator laws have been particularly murky, as many are written in broad terms that have complicated compliance for eCommerce platforms, according to Rachelle Bernstein, vice president of government relations and tax counsel for the National Retail Federation (NRF), a Washington, D.C.-based

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NRF On The Case For Revising eCommerce Sales Tax Laws

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The 2018 South Dakota v. Online retailers aren’t sitting still when faced with new taxes — and some are even fighting back in court. Small retailers may be struggling with Kansas’ law, but large retailers are meanwhile coming under fire in South Carolina. Some marketplace facilitator laws are written so.

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Where The Tax Man Will Knock Louder Post-Wayfair — And Sooner

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For retailers and other firms, there’s the persistent lure of broadened reach into new markets. Last year, in the case of South Dakota v. the Supreme Court ruled that online retailers could be mandated to pay sales tax — and taxes can be levied by states on firms that do not have a physical presence in those states.

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SMB Tax Complexity Preserves Role For The Human Accountant

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Last year, the Supreme Court’s ruling in South Dakota vs. Wayfair Inc. opened the door for states to collect sales tax from businesses that aren’t even physically based in that state, with massive implications for online retailers. The CPA Steps In.

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