Sales Tax Buzz exiting, stage right . . .

After obsessing over the Main Street Fairness Act, the ups and downs of a number of “Amazon Tax” bills, as well as countless other defining issues dotting the current transaction tax climate, I’ve reached the end of the Sales Tax Buzz run because I’ve accepted an offer to join another organization. I’d love to stay [...]

The Sales Tax Buzz 5 Psychic Predictions in Sales & Use Tax Developments for 2010

Now that we’ve looked back on some of the top sales and use tax stories of 2009 in each of this month’s Sales Tax Buzz postings, it’s time to make some predictions for 2010, as follows:  A minimum of 5 additional states will flat out ignore or at least test the limits of Quill to [...]

The Sales Tax Buzz Top 10 Sales & Use Tax Have-to-Know Developments of 2009

1. More States Go the Way of SST (and the SST finally updates its website to make it far closer to being user friendly than ever before, see here) 2.  The Main Street Fairness Act Is Gaining Momentum (see here)  3.  New York Prevails Over Amazon (thus far) & The New York Times Featured a [...]

The Sales Tax Buzz Top 10 Sales & Use Tax Legislative Developments of 2009

2009 was rife with legislative changes in terms of nexus, e-commerce taxation, sales tax holidays, and other key areas, so to help readers make a little sense of all of this activity, I put together the Sales Tax Buzz Top 10 Sales & Use Tax Legislative Developments of 2009 List, as well as a little [...]

Digital download tax hits home, my home.

The inevitable happened. I’ve been spending so much time thinking and even daring to write about tax on digital downloads that I might have attracted it right into my own little world. Yesterday, I received one of the most heart wrenching emails a habitual downloader can receive. The subject line read “New Rhapsody Tax Policy” [...]

The First “Welcome” Post

In 2008, whose thoughts didn’t turn to the economy on a daily – and sometimes hourly – basis? From the fall of Wall Street as we once knew it to the thinning of Main Street, to unfunded federal mandates and state budgets approaching record shortfalls, I came up with the idea to create a space [...]