Posted on February 19, 2010 by Althea Azeff
Amidst the frenzy of “Amazon Tax” bills sweeping the country, including in the Commonwealth of Virginia, I didn’t have a chance to make mention of a bill introduced in – and passed – by that state’s senate requiring online travel companies to collect sales and hotel taxes on the retail (not the wholesale) price on [...]
Filed under: E-Commerce, Legislation | Tagged: Expedia, Hotels, Hotels.com, online hotel brokers, online travel companies, Orbitz, S.B. 452, sidestep.com, Virginia | 3 Comments »
Posted on February 3, 2010 by Althea Azeff
In what can only be deemed a rather sizable victory for online travel companies, who have been beleaguered by lawsuits and audits from coast to coast at the city, county, and state level, a case in California gives the usual players joyous respite in their fight.
Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Carolyn B. Kuhl this [...]
Filed under: Court Cases, E-Commerce | Tagged: Anaheim, California, Expedia, Hotels.com, L.A. Country Superior Court, online hotel brokers, online travel companies, Orbitz, Priceline.com | 2 Comments »
Posted on January 5, 2010 by Althea Azeff
Two federal courts recently (and only seemingly, I would contend) ruled on the side of online travel companies, producing somewhat surprising results in a long line of similar cases we followed throughout 2009 (see here, here, here, here, and here).
One, a case brought to the U.S. District Court, Southern District of Florida, by Monroe [...]
Filed under: Court Cases, E-Commerce | Tagged: E-Commerce, Expedia, Florida, Hotels.com, Kentucky, Monroe County, online hotel brokers, online retailer, online travel companies, Orbitz, Priceline, Priceline.com, tourist development tax | 2 Comments »
Posted on December 7, 2009 by Althea Azeff
In an attempt to make sense of the plethora of sales & use tax cases in court in 2009, here is the Sales Tax Buzz Top 5 +1 Sales & Use Tax Court Opinions of 2009 List, as well as a little commentary on each, while we round the bend to close another solar year: [...]
Filed under: Court Cases | Tagged: 2009 court cases, Amazon Tax, Expedia, nexus, Orbitz, sales and use tax, sales and use tax litigation | Leave a Comment »
Posted on November 12, 2009 by Althea Azeff
Are Expedia and Orbitz paying the appropriate amount of sales taxes to the State of Florida for online-purchased hotel room rentals?
Not according to Florida’s Attorney General Bill McCollum, who recently filed suit in Tallahassee for up to hundreds of millions of dollars in back taxes.
In a line of online travel cases that essentially questions whether [...]
Filed under: Court Cases, E-Commerce | Tagged: E-Commerce, Expedia, Florida, Florida's Attorney General, online hotel brokers, online travel companies, Orbitz | 3 Comments »
Posted on August 19, 2009 by Althea Azeff
In ongoing Sales Tax Buzz coverage of online hotel room booking services (see here, here, here, and here), New York City’s Department of Finance recently weighed in on the issue in a first memorandum (a second is scheduled to follow later this month) addressing the recently revised rules surrounding hotel room occupancy tax there. Effective [...]
Filed under: E-Commerce, Taxability | Tagged: E-Commerce, Expedia, hotel bookings, Hotels.com, New York City, NYC hotels, online hotel, Orbitz, Priceline.com, sidestep.com, Travelocity | 3 Comments »
Posted on March 26, 2009 by Althea Azeff
As local jurisdictions are searching high and low for tax revenues, one area they continue to target is unpaid occupancy taxes and, in this vein, yet another online hotel booking company sales tax case has caught my attention, this time coming out of the state of Georgia.
For earlier Sales Tax Buzz discussions on this general [...]
Filed under: Court Cases, E-Commerce | Tagged: Expedia, Georgia, Georgia hotel occupancy tax, Hotels, Hotels.com, online travel companies, Orbitz, Priceline, Travelocity | 3 Comments »
Posted on December 30, 2008 by Althea Azeff
Just like almost everybody I know, I shop for the best hotel rate when I plan to visit other cities, for personal and for corporate travel alike. Of the many sites I scope, I’ve used Expedia, Hotels.com, and Orbitz often enough to bookmark them. That’s why various cases (one, among several, in the U.S. District [...]
Filed under: Court Cases, E-Commerce, Taxability | Tagged: claims, Expedia, hoteliers, Hotels, Hotels.com, Ohio, online hotel brokers, Orbitz, sales tax, U.S. District Court, unjust enrichment | 7 Comments »
