Minnesota Governor's Tax Plan

  http://www.salestaxsupport.com/ I have a post at SalesTaxSupport.com on Governor Dayton's tax reform plan that includes broadening the...

Vermont Study on its Sales Tax

In July, I blogged about the formation of a Study Committee in Vermont on the Sales and Use Tax ( 7/3/12 post ). Well, I had the opportunity...

Sales Tax Oddities - Food

A recent ruling in Florida is a reminder of the lack of logic and transparency in some of the special rules and exemptions common in sales t...

Sales and Use Tax Collection Issues

A recent article (9/1/12) in a Tennessee paper - " Politicians among online tax scofflaws - Amazon shoppers supposed to voluntarily pa...

A bit of nexus history - 1967 versus 1991 versus 2012 technology

In preparing for a presentation on the Quill case (which is today (!) at 3 pm Eastern), I had the opportunity and need to reread the lower ...

California's Troubled, Outdated Tax System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 ...

Sales Tax Issues for Remote Sellers

Rich Prem, VP Indirect Taxes and Tax Reporting for Amazon, shared a Top 10 list of issues remote sellers face . He shared it with BloombergB...

20 years after Quill decision - still waiting for a solution

I'm honored to be a guest blogger on Forbes today compliments of fellow blogger Peter Reilly who is always finding interesting aspects ...

Local sales tax oddity - CA cities and Amazon

"Apricot capital of the world" located 90 miles SE of San Francisco, future home of an Amazon fulfillment center A May 19, 2012 a...

Tax oddities and challenges of compliance

An article in BloombergBusinessweek - "Yoga Gets Off the Mat to Fight New York's Tax Man" by Caroline Winter (4/4/12), is a r...

Cloud computing and tax issues

A recent article (3/28/12) in CIO - " Cloud services face taxing dilemma" by Brandon Butler, points out the continuing challenges...

21st Century Retail Pushing for Sales Tax Reform from Congress

"21st Century Retail" appears to be a new website and blog (I like the title!) to encourage Congress to enact legislation to allo...

Spending, recession and sales tax

The California Board of Equalization Economic Perspective report for November is on Impacts of the Recession by Income Class and Type of Pu...

Reviewing the sales tax checklist

One certainty in tax practice is that sales-tax rules are never constant. Issues come up because of new types of transactions (such as cloud...

Oklahoma follows Colorado Approach to Increase Use Tax Compliance

On June 9, 2010, Oklahoma, following the lead of Colorado, enacted HB 2359 to require vendors that sell tangible personal property to Oklaho...