The Council on State Taxation (COST) has released the latest iteration of its scorecard evaluating each state’s tax appeals and procedural requirements, this year as a best and worst list of state tax administration. The various voices that comprise COST have expressed the view that taxpayers tend to more fully and willingly comply with tax [...]
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This one speaks for itself. After so many serious posts, I thought a bit of levity was in order. Enjoy!
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Culminating two years of research, the Michigan Commission on Legislative Mandates recently published its 87-page final report demonstrating that Michigan’s unfunded or underfunded mandates are requiring an astounding minimum of $2.2 billion per year from localities.
The cost to comply with Michigan state mandates – which run the gamut from electronic fingerprinting of criminals to [...]
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Hot off the presses this month, available as a free 16-page (not inclusive of the “Notes” and other superfluous pages) .pdf file here, the “Purchaser’s Obligations to Pay Sales Use Taxes Directly to the Tax Department: Questions and Answers” (Publications 774 of 1/10) could be the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance’s best [...]
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Wake up! It’s January 1, 2010 and Ohio has turned its sourcing rules back to origin-based from destination-based for all intrastate sales of tangible personal property and services. No, it’s not your hangover talking; it’s the dizzy feeling that results from trying to stay compliant.
Effective today and with official Department of Taxation guidance provided in [...]
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Now that we’ve looked back on some of the top sales and use tax stories of 2009 in each of this month’s Sales Tax Buzz postings, it’s time to make some predictions for 2010, as follows:
A minimum of 5 additional states will flat out ignore or at least test the limits of Quill to [...]
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The title speaks for itself.
1. “The Internet Is for Porn”
2. Blog Wars, the Phantom Menace Tooth Fairy
3. Buy an Electric Car: Save the World, Taxes, and Possibly Your Manhood
4. The tintinnabulation of gay wedding bells: $$$ for Vermont? (same-sex marriage and its potential implications on sales tax receipts)
5. Transaction Tax Engines: Size Does Matter
6. All [...]
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1. More States Go the Way of SST (and the SST finally updates its website to make it far closer to being user friendly than ever before, see here)
2. The Main Street Fairness Act Is Gaining Momentum (see here)
3. New York Prevails Over Amazon (thus far) & The New York Times Featured a Thanksgiving-Day [...]
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As a post-post-modern feminist, it’s almost painful even to toy with the possibility that I could be suffering some sort of Freudian crisis.
The symptoms? Recurrent nightmares of not having the world’s largest SaaS transaction tax engine, sweats induced by reading competitor press releases, agitation and confusion brought on by a particular company’s creative accounting, and [...]
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The nonpartisan Tax Foundation recently released its updated report on state and local sales tax rates. (Fiscal Fact No. 196, October 2009, found here), opening eloquently, “Sales taxes are paradoxically transparent and non-transparent. A taxpayer can easily see how high the tax is by looking at the receipt for any purchase. It’s hard to imagine [...]
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