Online Taxes

In June 2018, the U.S. Supreme Court overturned 27 years of legal precedent holding that no state could require an out-of-state retailer to collect sales or use taxes from purchasers absent the retailer having a physical presence in that state. In South Dakota v. Wayfair, the Court upheld a South Dakota statute that required remote…

This interactive webinar will feature expert speakers who will address the challenges associated with cross-border e-commerce.

With U.S. e-commerce sales forecast to grow to $561 billion in 2019, according to Statista, the competition for those dollars has intensified. As a result of the market pressures being placed upon U.S. retailers to support challenged brick-and-mortar stores with e-commerce sales, many are looking beyond domestic borders for growth opportunities. However, many are doing…

This January, sales of streaming service subscriptions became subject to sales tax in Iowa, Washington, D.C., and the Canadian provinces of Québec and Saskatchewan. These areas join a growing list of jurisdictions now taxing the sale of content consumed through Amazon.com, HBO, Hulu, Netflix, Spotify and other streamed service providers — a tax we like…

Compliance just got even more difficult for retailers that sell online, including marketplaces and traditional e-commerce sites.

As retailers count their holiday receipts, clear victors are emerging. However, it’s not just retailers counting their revenue; so too are those states that acted quickly following the Supreme Court’s South Dakota v. Wayfair decision last June and enacted rules compelling e-commerce sellers to collect and remit sales tax in their states. The Wayfair ruling,…

The retail world was flipped on its head in June when the Supreme Court decided the case of South Dakota v. Wayfair. By ruling in favor of South Dakota, the court declared states are no longer limited to requiring only in-state retailers to collect and remit sales tax, but can also impose requirements on remote…

E-commerce technology has made global selling easy, leading many small and midsized e-commerce companies to focus on expanding their cross-border sales to consumers. Unfortunately, most of these companies don’t understand how the realities of cross-border duty and tax compliance could result in shipment delays and canceled orders. This has created an opportunity for e-commerce platforms…

Attendees will leave this webinar with a better understanding of how global e-commerce opportunity will impact future success.

On this episode of Retail Right Now, Total Retail's Caitlin Sullivan and Joe Keenan discuss the recent enactment of online sales tax laws by 10 more states (Alabama, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, North Dakota, Washington and Wisconsin), as well as what retailers should be thinking about and doing as online sales tax becomes…