I know many of you have heard the controversy about Wayfair and Amazon paying taxes. This week’s episode dives into the recent Supreme Court ruling
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Cloud Tax On Streaming Services Survives Legal Challenge
Chicago raised eyebrows when the city announced a streaming tax on Netflix and similar internet services. The Liberty Justice Center filed a lawsuit challenging the tax on behalf of Chicago taxpayers. This week, a court ruled in favor of the city, upholding the tax.
Read MoreOnline Sales Tax Battle Heats Up
Congress was back at it this week, trying to reach an agreement on spending. If there’s no bill in place by midnight Friday, we’ll see another government shutdown. In the middle of the battle, there may be a twist: the rush to regulate online sales tax.
Read MoreShopping On Thanksgiving? Some Retailers Stay Open, Hoping To Capture Holiday Sales
I’m not going shopping today. I’m not making some kind of a statement. I simply have too much to do: there are breads to bake,
Read MoreFlipping Through History: Online Retailers Owe Popularity And Tax Treatment To Mail Order Catalogs
If you’re clicking through the internet today hoping to do a little shopping, you likely have Aaron Montgomery Ward to thank. On August 18, 1872,
Read MoreAmazon Makes Changes To Sales Tax Collections
A few moments ago, there was a knock on my door. It was a delivery from Amazon.com. My daughter’s 5th-grade class requires that students get
Read MoreGuest Post: Taxing Online Sales Is Fair
Submitted by DAVID CAMPBELL Is it fair to require online retailers to collect and remit state sales tax? In a word, yes. Most governors who
Read MoreGuest Post: Online Sales Tax
Submitted by KARA HAAS In recent years online shopping has become an unspoken tax haven. It seems as though it is similar to offshore bank
Read MoreGuest Post: Why I Support The Marketplace Fairness Act
Submitted by STEN R. WILSON Everyone seems to think that online sales tax collection is about large online companies, like Amazon, trying to crush small
Read MoreCall For Guest Posts About Tax Policy
As I have done for the past few years, I’ll be turning over the blog to my readers for the last week in August. But
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