Posted on May 20, 2009 by Althea Azeff
UPDATED MAY 28, 2009, just days after posting, to illustrate with a case in point. See below.
UPDATED AUGUST 18, 2009, yet again. Another case in point. See below below.
UPDATED October 5, 2009, WA DOR released reminder, “Major change coming to buying goods and services for resale.” See below, below, below.
The Washington State Department of Revenue [...]
Filed under: Legislation, Taxability | Tagged: exemption, resale certificates, sales tax abuse, sellers permits, Washington State | 1 Comment »
Posted on May 19, 2009 by Althea Azeff
Bluegrass State’s bourbon tax policy is hitting producers hard
When Kentucky enacted a 6% tax on all alcohol back in February of this year, bourbon distillers joined in solidarity to protest on the front steps of the state Capitol, pouring spirits in the streets.
This week, the numbers were in for April 2008 vs. April 2009 sales, [...]
Filed under: Legislation, Taxability | Tagged: Kentucky, Bourbon, Bluegrass State, bourbon tax, alcohol tax, Kentucky Bourbon Trail | 3 Comments »
Posted on May 13, 2009 by Althea Azeff
There’s been some movement in the Hawaiian legislature towards SST conformity as of late, most notably S.B. 1678 was passed anew on May 7th, aimed at conforming excise tax laws there with the Streamlined Sales and Use Tax Agreement. The state legislature responded to advice received from SST Governing Board and the Council on State [...]
Filed under: E-Commerce, Legislation, SST | Tagged: H.B. 1405, Hawaii, Internet sales tax, SST, SST Governing Board, SSUTA, Wisconsin | Leave a Comment »
Posted on May 7, 2009 by Althea Azeff
This month’s issue of Business Finance magazine features an article by Robert D. Kugel, CFA, SVP Research for Ventana Research (a firm and author you may remember from The Case for a SaaS Sales, Use, Vat Solution . . . Now More Than Ever) that focuses on the need for software and automation to handle [...]
Filed under: Global, Taxability, The Art of Blogging | Tagged: Avalara, Business Finance, Making Sales Tax Less Taxing, Robert D. Kugel, Saas, software-as-a-service, Ventana Research | Leave a Comment »
Posted on May 4, 2009 by Althea Azeff
From today through June 15, taxpayers may submit their slice of the $100 million in back taxes, including sales and 38 other kinds of state taxes, owed to the Garden State sans penalty and reduced by one-half the accrued interest.
This is the fourth time in approximately 25 years that the state has launched an amnesty [...]
Filed under: Legislation, Taxability | Tagged: New Jersey, New Jersey Division of Taxation, sales and use tax, sales tax amnesty, tax amnesty | Leave a Comment »
Posted on May 3, 2009 by Althea Azeff
In yet another strange sales tax news story out of New York State comes this headline from The Buffalo News, Smoke Shop Owner Spared Jail for $119,000 Tax Evasion.
Five years of probation, no jail time.
But the shop owner feels “genuinely remorseful.”
Whatever.
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tagged: New York, probation, sales tax evasion, tax evasion | 2 Comments »
