Ecommerce Industry News
Etsy has added to the list of states for which it collects sales tax under Marketplace Facilitator laws. For Etsy-only sellers, such laws can simplify compliance issues, but for multi-channel sellers, such laws add yet […]
Barbara Weltman is President of Big Ideas for Small Business, Inc., a source for tax, legal, and financial information specially developed for small businesses and independent entrepreneurs and is author of J.K. Lasser’s Small Business […]
Greg Chapman is Senior Vice President of Avalara, which offers multi-channel merchants solutions for automated tax calculations, easy returns preparation, and integrated document management; former Amazon executive. He discusses retail convergence along with growing tax […]
There’s big money in offering solutions to painful problems, and one major pain for small online sellers is dealing with online sales tax compliance. TaxJar announced today it has closed a $60 million funding round. […]
eBay announced in October it would begin collecting sales tax in 4 states in 2019 due to new laws that extend the tax collection obligation to marketplaces (known as Marketplace Facilitator laws). Note that online […]
eBay told sellers on Monday it would begin collecting sales tax next year on transactions where the buyer is based in Minnesota. eBay had previously informed sellers of its obligation to collect sales tax for […]
Etsy hosted a discussion board chat to answer sellers’ questions about online sales tax. It provided some background, explaining that since the Supreme Court ruling this year in South Dakota v. Wayfair, sellers must now […]
Amazon notified sellers it will begin collecting sales tax for orders shipped to Minnesota beginning October 1, 2018, which passed what’s come to be known as a Marketplace Facilitator law in 2017. Amazon is adding […]
Republican and democratic lawmakers in Congress have introduced a bill that would be a huge relief to small businesses worried about online sales tax obligations in the wake of the Supreme Court case overturning Quill. […]
We’re getting questions from sellers about their obligations to collect sales tax after the Supreme Court overturned Quill with its ruling in June. Unfortunately there are no simple, one-size-fits-all answers, frustrating sellers struggling to deal with […]