Direct Marketers Take Aim at Colorado Reporting and Notice Regulations.

The Direct Marketing Association finds itself at odds with the new Colorado reporting and noticing requirements for non-collecting vendors. Looks like these guys are going legal on the Centennial state (from the linked fact sheet): “DMA and its members are filing suit against the state of Colorado in Federal Court. DMA will act as the plaintiff so [...]

Would California’s License Plate Adverts be Subject to Sales Tax Under New Federal Trade Commission Rules?

Probably, if the smart plates are using wireless technology. Oh, wait, not sure what exactly a License Plate Advertisement is?  Never heard of a Smart Plate?  Didn’t know the FTC was looking into applying a sales tax on advertisements delivered via broadband? We aren’t totally clear on all those great questions either, but here is our best [...]

The ACLU has a Problem with North Carolina’s Request of Amazon’s Sales Records.

Now, first, remember, we have already said this about North Carolina’s attempts to get access to Amazon’s sales records from sales to customers in the Tar Heel state: “Yeah, that’s right, forget the free speech issues, the privacy red herrings.  Forget about the proper scope of a sales tax audit curiously being performed on a retailer who, by law, has no obligation to collect [...]

Buffalo Tax Professionals: Sales Tax Compliance is Really Important!

Listen, we recognize that we end up in central New York a little more often than some other corners of the USA, but hey, we got two Syracuse grads in the office so be happy it isn’t salt potatoes, snow and Dinosaur Bar-B-Q 24/7, OK? In any event, this business news article from the shores of [...]

July 1 is Next Week, Are You Ready for HST in Ontario and B.C.?

The sun is finally out in the Pac Northwest, summer is here, we hope.  Another change in climate is about to become the law of the land in the Great White North.  But this warm-up has nothing to do with fronts or storms, although it might be the source of some high pressure for vendors [...]

Colorado Springs Discovers Fountain of Green From Sales Taxes on Medical Marijuana.

Probably a little too much of the green on da blog as of late, but we just couldn’t let this nugget  vaporize without sparking a little light on the subject. Sales tax revenues on Medical Marijuana in Colorado Springs, CO have mushroomed 1000% in the first third of 2010.  In fact, it looks like the annual take [...]

Use Tax Compliance 101, Empire State Style.

New York State has released Tax Bulletin TB-ST-910.  This Bulletin deals with Use Tax Compliance for businesses in the land of the bark eaters. Use taxes are in the news these days in the context of the “Amazon” controversy regarding nexus.  In that conflict, the use taxes owed, but not remitted, by customers of remote vendors [...]

Pueblo Colorado Looks to Raise Sales Tax Rates for Medical Marijuana.

The city of Pueblo, Colorado is looking to take the argument for ‘legalize and tax’ to another level.   We already posted about some state’s attempts to pull medical marijuana under the sales tax tent.  The sales tax compliance issues facing dispensary vendors are compounded in Pueblo by what will amount to a + 12% sales tax on medicinal cannabis.   “Council President Larry [...]

Housing and Economic Recovery Act and Sales Tax Compliance, part II.

A few months back, we posted a bit about a new federal requirement for on-line vendors.  The focus of the feds, naturally, is income tax compliance.  But this is a sales tax blog, we know, read on … The law, codified at Sec. 6050W of the Internal Revenue Code, is an information reporting requirement for [...]

Halfway Around the World, India Exerts Sales Tax Compliance Pressure on a Honda Dealer.

In honor of our friends and colleagues from India, we bring you avalara blog: International Edition… The compliance requirements faced by sales tax vendors, and the enforcement thereof, do not begin and end at any border. Here is an interesting blurb about sales tax compliance in India.  Seems a car dealer is accused of skirting local [...]

Virginia Sales Tax Vendors Discover that Compliance Requires a Loan to Richmond

The states are struggling with short and long term budget pressures, this much we know.  Legislators in the Commonwealth of Virginia have dreamed up a novel approach to … well, we aren’t sure how much this will help relieve the fiscal reality faced in the Old Dominion, but it creates some headaches for large Virginia sales tax vendors. [...]

Oklahoma Enacts Colorado-ish Use Tax Noticing Requirement.

Since we are all over Oklahoma today, why not word about a new sales tax compliance wrinkle for vendors who sell to customers in the Sooner state. There are a lot of sales tax related items that this monster legislation touches on, but perhaps the most timely issue relates to the so-called “Amazon Tax” controversy.  We have posted and [...]