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DECEMBER 26, 2019

Merchants aiming to sell nationwide must pay attention to how their goods are treated by each state’s tax code. Items considered as exempt medical necessities in some states may be taxed at high rates in others, and businesses cannot afford to be caught by surprise. Around The Next-Gen Sales Tax Wor ld.

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SEPTEMBER 1, 2016

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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OCTOBER 28, 2019

Wayfair case that allowed states and individual cities to launch tax policies aimed at remote sellers and marketplaces is still reverberating in 2019 and will likely affect online retail in 2020. In Q3 2019, 14 states started collected online sales tax and 11 more followed in October. eBay Makes a Deal. Don’t cry for eBay, though.

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OCTOBER 24, 2019

Wayfair ruling gave states and cities permission to tax remote sellers and online marketplaces based on their economic participation in the state, regardless of whether they had physical presences. Online retailers aren’t sitting still when faced with new taxes — and some are even fighting back in court.

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NOVEMBER 7, 2018

And while those numbers aren’t likely to keep Amazon or H&M up at night, for a small Cuban eCommerce startup operating out of nation where internet access is patchy and from which the company can’t ship goods directly to U.S. as relations between the two nations began to improve in 2014. We’re super-happy.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

eCommerce sales tax laws are having unintended consequences in the tobacco industry. State governments began rolling out economic nexus laws after 2018’s South Dakota vs. Wayfair ruling. percent tax on each imported premium cigar, limited to a maximum of about $0.40 in 2017 had a 52.75

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JUNE 20, 2018

The actions come as the BBB debuted a report with results from a survey conducted among 1,200 SMBs across the nation, showing that scams are a growing risk for businesses. In some cases, the fraudsters targeted HR departments, looking for personal information such as tax records. Of the arrests, 42 were in the U.S.,

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