Guest Post - Tax Law: How CPAs Can Affect Reform

Today I have a guest post from Grant Webb with some ideas and reminders that CPAs can affect the tax law and tax policy. By Grant Webb with ...

Are the Main Street Fairness bills simple enough?

In 1992, the US Supreme Court noted the complexity of multistate sales tax compliance stemming from the reality that the rules among the 6,0...

Government disclosuse of taxpayer data and the meaning of transparency and accountability

Despite the timing of this post, it is not about whether Governor Romney should disclose more than one year's tax return to the public. ...

"Tax hike" misleading, overlooks call for big tax cut. What about tax policy?

Some recent news stories and blogs refer to President Obama's call to only extend tax cuts for the 97% of individuals with income under ...

Trademarks and income tax nexus

A recent West Virginia Supreme Court case involving ConAgra Brands points out that economic nexus is not as broad as some states have argued...

Cloudy Cloud Computing Tax Issues

A few states have issued rulings on how sales tax applies to cloud computing transactions - mostly those involving accessing software. The r...

Tax Gap and Budget Solutions

In California, SB 1185 , the Centralized Intelligence Partnership Act, calls for information sharing and a partnership among various state...

California's Troubled, Outdated Tax System

Three tax initiatives/propositions will appear on the November 2012 California ballot. This is a poor way to change the tax law.  Voters hav...

Amazon collecting more sales tax - Relevance to Congress?

There have been recent news stories about Amazon starting to collect sales tax in some states. Texas on July 1, 2012 as part of an agreement...

Vermont Sales Tax Committee to be Formed

Vermont H.782 enacted in April 2012 made several changes including creating a 7-member Study Committee to "examine the sustainability ...