The Sales Tax Buzz Top 10 Sales & Use Tax Legislative Developments of 2009

2009 was rife with legislative changes in terms of nexus, e-commerce taxation, sales tax holidays, and other key areas, so to help readers make a little sense of all of this activity, I put together the Sales Tax Buzz Top 10 Sales & Use Tax Legislative Developments of 2009 List, as well as a little [...]

New Hampshire vs. Taxachusetts: How the story ends

In what could be my last post in a long line of posts covering the Town Fair Tire Centers v. Commissioner of Revenue, Massachusetts case – the seminal Interstate Commerce case regarding sales/use tax in these times – the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ruled yesterday, August 25th, that Town Fair Tire Centers is not required [...]

Living Free, Not Dead, New Hampshire Stays Tough

****Sales Tax Buzz breaking news****
UPDATED April 9 below

This morning the New Hampshire Senate Commerce, Labor, and Consumer Protection Committee held a hearing on NH SB5, prohibiting retailers from disclosing private consumer information to foreign states in connection with the collection of certain sales and use taxes.
This bill, which was sponsored by every NH state senator [...]

Privacy of Consumer Info Coming Soon to New Hampshire (or New Hampshire v. Taxachusetts, Part III)

Do you remember the post (we’ll call that Part I) about the border use tax case between New Hampshire and Massachusetts? And the follow up post (otherwise known as Part II) about New Hampshire’s Governor and Attorney General getting in on the action against Taxachusetts? Well, it looks like the bill mentioned therein is going [...]

Live Free or Die! Border, Use Tax Case Stirs Strong Emotions

Sales Tax Buzz Interviews Retailer’s Lawyer and President of Retail Merchants Association of New Hampshire
Not since we all worried (in the mid to late 1990’s was it?) that our Firestone/Goodyear tires would experience tread separation while driving at high speeds have tires been at the center of so much controversy (see here, here and [...]