With the weather turning colder and the ski slopes opening up, love it or hate it, pretty soon we’re going to start seeing snow. Whether you’re a consumer who plans to pay for it, or a service who...
There’s no shortage of events this time of year, and it can be challenging to make your voice heard over all the holiday noise. Here’s how to get your event on people’s radar and turn it into a...
Many, many states had sales tax filings due yesterday, October 20th. Yesterday evening I was chatting with an FBA seller who had waited until the last minute and told me, “I wish there were 48 hours...
Sales tax is complex. Maybe you’re new to selling online or maybe you’ve decided to get serious about sales tax compliance. Or maybe you thought you were compliant but a scare (like a letter from...
In a nutshell: It is legal and required in some states to charge sales tax on shipping and handling charges. Some states require sales tax on delivery charges only in special cases and some don’t...
We get a lot of questions about exactly how much sales tax you should be charging your customers. As with most things in the sales tax world, the answer is usually “It depends.” This post...
We see a lot of variations on this question: “A state said I had to register to collect use tax, not sales tax. What’s the difference?” To make a long story short, sales and use tax generally...
Summer is one of the most active seasons for small businesses. Not only do businesses start hiring more people but, according to the Paychex IHS Small Business Index, there tends to be an upswing in...
In an ideal world, you’d charge one sales tax rate to all customers buying from your online store and that would be that. (Okay, so in a real utopia there would be no sales tax, but that’s really...
Starting way back in 1995, Connecticut launched its first publication of delinquent tax payers. Washington followed suit in 1997 and now, as of December 2014, 23 states either publish a list or have a...