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Remote Seller Taxation: A Job For Tax Automation

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Wayfair Supreme Court decision continue to rattle online merchants, as three states (California, Louisiana and South Carolina) are now trying to collect eCommerce sales tax retroactively, as far back as five years. To date 43 states and Washington, D.C. have moved to collect sales tax from remote sellers, and it’s just the beginning.

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Big Tech Compliance Tracker: EU Watchdogs Make ‘Big Tech Hit List’; France To Go Ahead With Digital Services Tax Plan

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OECD’s Tax Reform To Be Presented To G20. The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) , which is based in France, said its worldwide tax reform blueprint will be put in front of the Group of 20 finance ministers. France Will Proceed With Controversial Digital Services Tax Plan.

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Big Tech Compliance Tracker: Tencent Says Big Tech Needs Greater Oversight; Group Seeks To Block Maryland Online Ad Tax

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Group Seeks to Block Maryland Online Advertising Tax. Marylanders for Tax Fairness is preparing for a battle in January over the state’s attempt to make a digital advertising tax, the Baltimore Sun reported. Maryland legislators ratified the tax earlier in 2020, but Gov. Larry Hogan vetoed the levy. percent to 10 percent.

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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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SMB Tax Complexity Preserves Role For The Human Accountant

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With the first tax season post-tax reform nearing completion in the U.S., Ongoing regulatory changes and persistent uncertainty mean that that importance will continue even outside of tax season, with challenges that even the most automated of accounting software solutions cannot always tackle. Tackling Tax.

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SaaS sales tax compliance software Anrok hits $100M valuation. Anrok’s competitors include Avalara, DAVO Technologies, TaxCloud, Taxware, and Vertex.

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Anrok , a SaaS sales tax solution, has raised $20M in a Series A. California-based Anrok unifies sales tax monitoring, calculation, and payments processes across the enterprise financial stack. The startup operates in the US and has teams in San Francisco, Texas, Colorado, and Washington, among other locations in the US.

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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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