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

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The 2018 South Dakota v. 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. still-developing tax landscape, and explores other critical updates.

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Can South Dakota Move The Needle On A Federal Online Sales Tax?

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This is proving particularly true for more and more cash-strapped states that have spent years staring at soaring traffic for online retailers but little — if any — increases in the taxes reaped from this digital, transcontinental economy. And South Dakota, for one, has had enough.

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South Dakota Sues Wayfair, NewEgg, Overstock And Systemax Over Lost eCommerce Revenue

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It’s a big litigious party out in South Dakota these days, as the state is suing four eCommerce merchants for their lost sales tax – and different merchants (in a separate suit) are suing right back. North Dakota. The group’s suit claims the South Dakota law violates the U.S.

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As Consumers Embrace eCommerce, Tax Complexity Grows

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South Dakota vs. Wayfair was only the beginning. The Supreme Court ruling has started the ball rolling for states and municipalities to tax eCommerce – specifically, out-of-state firms and online marketplaces. The tax jurisdictions number in the thousands, and the landscape is a fragmented one.

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Report: The Risky Business Of Navigating Online Sales Tax For Merchants

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Merchants working to expand and sell online in more markets must comply with each market’s local sales tax regulations, however, and that is an increasingly complicated task. Levy laws can vary widely between states, with one state taxing a product that another does not, for example. Around The Next-Gen Sales Tax World.

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The Economic Case For Remote Sales Tax Uniformity

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George Isaacson has been watching the results of South Dakota v. Isaacson, a lawyer, Bowdoin College professor, senior partner at Brann & Isaacson and Data & Marketing Association tax counsel, argued Wayfair’s side in the precedent-setting Supreme Court case that has small businesses struggling.

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How Merchants Navigate Tax Collection Complexity With Technology  

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eCommerce firms are navigating a tax collection environment that increasingly requires technology and automation to ensure compliance. 2018: The year of the Supreme Court decision in the South Dakota vs. Wayfair case. All this, Today in Data. Data: 8,000: Square footage of The North Face’s recently opened store in Soho.

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