I should be far too old to start a blog post with “OMG,” but I just can’t refrain: OMG, North Carolina’s move to impose a 1% temporary sales and use tax increase probably created more problems than were worth it. And now even the Department of Revenue has panicked. Applicable to sales dated September 1, [...]
Filed under: Legislation, Taxability | Tagged: DOR, N. Carolina rate changes, North Carolina DOR, rate changes, sales tax automation, sales tax reporting | 1 Comment »
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, [...]
Filed under: Taxability | Tagged: Avalara, Colorado, Colorado DOR, DOR, sales and use tax, sales tax filings, sales tax vendor fees, use taxes, vendor discount, vendor fees | Leave a Comment »
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 [...]
Filed under: Taxability | Tagged: DOR, hall-of-shame, Minnesota, minnesota sales tax, minnesota use tax, seizure of assets | 3 Comments »
While engaging in deep yogic breathing and meditation early this morning, my mind wandered to the way two states, situated on opposite sides of the country, have recently addressed the definition of health and physical fitness for sales and use tax purposes. West Virginia recently provided an interpretation of “health and fitness” in relation to [...]
Filed under: Court Cases, Taxability | Tagged: cases, DOR, fitness, guru, health, Namaste, nonprofit, theatre, Washington State, West Virginia, yoga | 1 Comment »
