Sales Tax July 28, 2025
Sales Tax Rates and Rules Changes Skyrocket Across States in 2025, Says Vertex Report
In the first half of 2025, states made 408 sales tax rate changes and new rates – a 24% increase compared to the first half of 2024.
February 7, 2022
How Marketplace Facilitators Can Navigate Tax Compliance in 2022
Getting tax wrong can be costly for any business, but particularly for marketplace facilitators with a high volume of sales. Unless a marketplace facilitator can demonstrate that a failure to collect and remit applicable taxes was due to receiving ...
February 7, 2022
States Look at Taxing Text Messaging
Tax statutes written decades ago likely didn’t contemplate these sorts of services. That said, the plain language in many state and local communication tax statutes often has basic wording around the taxable terms of SMS and messaging and may not ...
February 4, 2022
A Look into the Tax Department of the Future
By focusing on the shifting responsibilities of the tax workforce along with the integration of tax technology, businesses can plan for the tax department of the future.
February 2, 2022
State-by-State Sales Tax Holidays for 2022
A sales tax holiday is a limited time period during which some normally taxable products are exempt from sales tax. Approximately 17 states provide one or more sales tax holidays each year; the precise number fluctuates because some states adopt new ...
January 26, 2022
States Look at Taxing the Metaverse, But What is It?
Sales transactions are presumed taxable in states with a sales tax (unless there’s a specific exemption or exclusion), most states haven’t yet clarified which sales tax laws apply to sales made in the metaverse. When will they start?
January 25, 2022
Massachusetts Collects More Taxes on Marijuana than Alcohol
The commonwealth collected $74.2 million in marijuana excise tax through December 2021, WCVB reported. In comparison, alcohol collected $51.3 million.
January 25, 2022
States Want Online Marketplaces to Police for Stolen Goods
To help prevent someone from selling stolen goods on a marketplace, California and several other states want marketplaces to obtain and share the names and contact information of high-volume marketplace sellers.
January 25, 2022
More Taxation on Services Expected this Year
Though the United States economy is “dominated by services-oriented companies,” most states currently tax only select services, if any. That could change in 2022: Legislation seeking to tax services has been introduced in Indiana and ...
January 18, 2022
Tennessee Starts Accepting Sales Tax Exemption Certificates from Other States
The policy change results from the repeal of Tennessee’s Sales and Use Tax Rule 96, which required Tennessee suppliers to collect Tennessee sales tax on products sold to out-of-state dealers unless such dealers provided a Tennessee resale ...
January 14, 2022
Vertex Unveils Edge Computing Tax Solution
The solution enables global omnichannel retailers the ability to configure, automate and deploy containerized sales and use tax engines where transactions are being processed, delivering enhanced performance and scale for tax automation ...
December 17, 2021
3 Steps to Ensuring Small Business Sales Tax Success in 2022
The end of the year is a good time to take stock of your business, especially if you’re a small business planning to grow in 2022. A year-end review is particularly critical this year, given COVID-19 disruptions.
December 17, 2021
Kansas Considers Reducing or Exempting Groceries from Sales Taxes
Kansas is one of just a few states that taxes groceries at the full sales tax rate. That won’t be the case for much longer if Governor Laura Kelly gets her way.