Back-to-school sales tax holiday season is here

While the back-to-school shopping sales tax holidays season is upon us, and I’m about to list the jurisdictions granting such gifts, it’s important to remember that these sales tax holidays are probably not going to be the panacea, the proverbial shot in the arm, that the retail industry needs to demonstrate any sort of real [...]

Colorado’s Tax Filing Vendor Discount: Your Questions, Answered

I’ve received several questions about the Colorado Department of Revenue’s recent (and rather un-cool) stoppage of its vendor discount program for monthly filers which, prior to July 1st 2009, provided for a 1.35% discount for timely filings of sales taxes. Is that it? Is this cut going to last forever? Yep, afraid so. That’s it, [...]

Nexus Becoming Ever-Trickier to Determine

Based on a Massachusetts case, U.S. Supreme Court leaves open the chance for “substantial nexus” without physical presence, for brick-and-mortar and Internet companies alike Are you a business incorporated in State A and conduct business in State B? If so, you had better tune in to what’s going on in the courts in terms of [...]

Fiscal 2010 Looking Ugly

As discussed in an April Sales Tax Buzz post, sales tax receipts generally outpace income taxes as the primary food source for state budgets. Noting the dismal Q2 receipts that came off a disastrous Q1 2009, while considering that June closes the fiscal year in a majority of states, fiscal 2010 does not look pretty [...]

NH Governor Ensures Retailers There Won’t Become Tax Collectors for Other States

New Hampshire Governor John Lynch signed into law July 9th a bill aims to protect retailers from essentially becoming tax collectors for other states, while keeping consumer information private, as Sales Tax Buzz first described in great detail here. S.B. 5 protects private consumer information by blocking in-state retailers from providing that information to other [...]

Minnesota’s #1 Sales Tax Dodger Nabbed

Department of Revenue workers temporarily morph into the “repo man” Remember the post about Minnesota’s sales tax hall of shame? In that post, I pointed to a list the state has published online for about the past year or so with the names of businesses that owe back sales taxes. Turns out number one on [...]