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 [...]

Amazon.com & other online retailers costing states $7B a year?

In these stormy days of the ongoing saga between Amazon.com and a number of states (see here, here, here, and here), the nonpartisan Center on Budget and Policies Priorities released a riveting report this week concluding, among other findings, that Amazon’s arguments against collecting sales taxes do not withstand scrutiny – costing states up to [...]

e-Roundtable on The Main Street Fairness Act: experts discuss Internet sales tax

e-Roundtable on The Main Street Fairness Act: Sales Tax Buzz Consults the Experts on Internet Sales Tax Act Read what Wal-Mart, J.C. Penney, Tech & Government say about a U.S.-wide Internet sales tax system I recently hosted an e-Roundtable event to address what many policymakers believe to be today’s most important topic within the transaction [...]

The Must-Read E-Commerce Paper of the Year

State, Local Governments to lose at least $11.4 billion in sales tax revenues to Internet by 2012 If anything, today’s headline might understate its case. Not only is “State and Local Government Sales Tax Revenue Losses from Electronic Commerce” the e-commerce paper of the year, it could very well be the must-read study of the [...]

Sales Tax Fairness and Simplification Act: How’s It Going?

In what could very well become historic times in the sales tax arena, I wanted to call attention to a draft federal bill that is set for consideration this Friday, March 20, in a final set of congressional meetings – namely the Sales Tax Fairness and Simplification Act (H.R. 3396 and S. 34), as can [...]