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Will eSports And Other Online Businesses Spike Digital Taxes?

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Historians and economists regularly look to tax policies to get a sense of what happened within a particular industry, society or country. No doubt the chronicles to come about the rise of the internet age and the spread of digital culture will include serious treatment of tax issues. Taxing Confusion. billion in 2022.”.

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Navigating The ‘Hot Mess’ Of Online Food Delivery Sales Tax

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In commerce, when it comes to taxes, new business models beget new (tax) problems. Against that backdrop, tax collection in the nascent restaurant delivery space remains fragmented at best — and confusing at worst. But in many cases, these firms may not be collecting sales taxes at all. billion received in 2017.

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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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Helping SaaS Firms Make Sense Of eCommerce?s Tax Complexities

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Beyond the challenges of the pandemic that is forcing businesses to grapple with all manner of operating challenges, tax complexity has been building over the years on a global stage — and it’s only going to increase. There are many online merchants out there that have static, hard-coded tax rates in their systems.”.

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What ‘Patchwork’ eCommerce Taxes Mean For Black Friday – And Beyond

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By some estimates, total dollars spent online through the holidays should grow by about 14 percent, to as much as $143.7 And in the wake of all those sales lies a pressing issue for merchants plying their trades online: figuring out the tax liabilities. States have been defining their parameters for economic nexuses.

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Procure-To-Pay’s Tax Conundrum

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One of the largest challenges for procurement chiefs today, according to Sovos VP of Strategy Christiaan Van Der Valk, is tax compliance, and it can easily trip up organizations as regulations become more complex — and as regulators’ strategies to ensure tax compliance become more sophisticated.

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Online Sales Tax’s ‘Pivotal,’ Post-Wayfair 2019 — And What Lies Ahead

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In an interview with PYMNTS, Liz Armbruester, senior vice president of Global Compliance at Avalara , said 2019 represented a watershed year for tax compliance as states embraced the economic nexus model and passed marketplace facilitator laws. Imposing state taxes on out-of-state sellers is now the new normal, she said.

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