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 concern themselves with economic nexus, Read more
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 Minnesota to the list of Read more
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. Among the provisions: a $10 Read more
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 the issue. Here’s an example Read more
Avalara is making its sales-tax tool available on the Amazon Marketplace Appstore for the convenience of those sellers who use its tax compliance automation software to file and remit state sales tax. For those unfamiliar with it, “The Marketplace Appstore Read more
Etsy added a drop of clarity to a murky subject when it published a post about online sales tax on Thursday. Sellers want online marketplaces to tell them what they are doing – and what sellers should be doing – Read more
eBay CEO Devin Wenig said he has spoken to President Trump about the online sales tax issue in the wake of the Supreme Court ruling in South Dakota vs. Wayfair, but the two men obviously disagree on how the case Read more
A new analysis of the Supreme Court ruling in South Dakota vs Wayfair offers a ray of hope for small online sellers who are worried about the burden of collecting and remitting sales tax across the United States. But it Read more
Newegg is making changes affecting its third-party marketplace sellers after the Supreme Court changed the rules on sales tax obligations. The state of South Dakota had sued Wayfair, Overstock.com, and Newegg to force them to collect use tax for transactions Read more
New Hampshire, which has no sales tax, is working to protect small businesses in its state from what its Governor called “improper attempts by other states to force our businesses to collect sales and use taxes.” A press release issued Read more
