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US Supreme Court Gives The Green Light For Online Sales Taxes

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States can collect sales taxes from online retailers thanks to a U.S. The 5-4 decision essentially overturns the court’s 1992 ruling that states can collect sales taxes only from retailers that maintain a physical presence in those states. billion in tax revenue in 2017,” according to the report. retail sales.

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The (Un)Certainty Of eCommerce Sales Taxes

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The only certainties in life, the saying goes, are death and taxes. We’ll underscore the certainty of the latter — taxes — for eCommerce firms and sales taxes , especially. Although taxes may be certain — just how much tax is due, and where, and perhaps even when, are all variables that are far from certain.

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Is Sales Tax An Anchor On Amazon?

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One of the more long-grumbled complaints in retail is that Amazon and other eCommerce players are able to exploit a loophole that allowed them to mostly avoid charging sales tax. Would collecting sales tax 100 percent of the time take a bit out of Amazon’s bottom line? Recent data suggests — probably not.

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Can South Dakota Move The Needle On A Federal Online Sales Tax?

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This is proving particularly true for more and more cash-strapped states that have spent years staring at soaring traffic for online retailers but little — if any — increases in the taxes reaped from this digital, transcontinental economy. proper to occupy much of the conversation. And South Dakota, for one, has had enough.

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Grocery Tracker: Food Markets’ Lag In Online Presence

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Elsewhere, a new tax is set to be levied on sugary beverages sold in restaurants and supermarkets in five more U.S. In San Francisco, Oakland and Albany, California, consumers voted to see a one-cent-per-ounce tax on all sugary beverages, joining Berkeley, California, which instated a similar tax two years ago.

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Credit Union Helps US Marijuana Businesses Put Down Roots

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Massachusetts joins a handful of states, including Colorado, Washington and Maine, that have taken steps to legalize recreational marijuana. GFA, however, will offer basic financial tools to these businesses, including access to online banking, checking accounts, debit cards, cash management and payroll services.

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Fizzle Of The Week: The Cannabis Payments Conundrum

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states (and the District of Columbia) where marijuana has been legalized for sale in some capacity, it has thrown off a fairly large chunk of tax revenue in the last year. billion in taxes from legal cannabis companies last year, an amount of money that is undoubtedly a sizzle for the federal coffers.

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