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Preparing for Black Friday/Cyber Monday: Sales Tax Edition
This time of year many articles crop up to advise e-commerce sellers on how to prepare for the upcoming selling holidays like Black Friday and Cyber Monday. This good advice is meant to boost your bottom line and help you take advantage of an audience ready to click...
What Changing Your Business EIN Means for Sales Tax
Over our 25 years helping businesses stay sales tax compliant, one hurdle we’ve noticed tripping our customers up is the employer identification number (EIN). Most businesses will eventually need an EIN. They are necessary for common business tasks like opening a...
Sales Tax Sourcing: Origin vs. Destination Based Sales Tax, Explained
Forty-six US states and DC all have a sales tax. The fact that each state gets to make their own rules and regulations around sales tax can lead to some confusion. One confusing aspect of sales tax? Sales tax sourcing. What does “sourcing” mean in sales tax?...
Should I charge sales tax on shipping?
Everything sales tax-related is more complicated for e-commerce sellers. Sales tax on shipping charges is no different. As an e-commerce seller, the product has to get to the customer somehow. In most cases, that means the nice guy or gal in the big box truck places...
How to Validate a Resale Certificate in Any US State
Nearly every retailer will encounter a customer with a resale certificate from time to time. (Read our in-depth guide to resale certificates here.) Usually, the buyer is buying your products with the intent to resell them. If you agree to that, your next step is to...
Texas Franchise Tax Explained for E-Commerce Sellers
E-commerce merchants are already accustomed to dealing with taxes in states where we don’t actually have a presence. (Thanks, economic nexus.) But in some cases, those taxes aren’t sales taxes. Take the Texas Franchise Tax for example. Under Texas law, entities either...
How to Collect Sales Tax Via Shopify and Other Online Carts
Recently we wrote about how easy online shopping cart onboarding can lead to sales tax disaster. Long story short, online shopping carts are very good at onboarding new e-commerce sellers. But there is sometimes a disconnect between setting up sales tax collection on...
Should you charge sales tax on digital goods?
Georgia’s governor recently signed a new sales tax law making digital goods such as e-books, movies, video games and digitally downloaded photographs taxable. The law went into effect on January 1, 2024 and is just one more in a long line of US states deciding how...
What “Marketplace Facilitator Laws” mean for Sales Tax
Good news for e-commerce retailers! As of January 1, 2023, every US state with a sales tax now also has marketplace facilitator laws. Why is a law good news? This means that now major online marketplaces like Amazon, Walmart, eBay, and Etsy are required to collect and...