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.
April 1, 2021
2021 Reader’s Choice Awards: The Tech Getting Us Through the Pandemic
Now in their 17th year, the CPA Practice Advisor Readers Choice Awards give our readers the chance to spotlight the technologies they most respect and trust to provide client services, to manage their firms, and to help their clients run ...
March 25, 2021
Will Digital Advertising Taxes Spread in 2021?
As Maryland prepares to enforce the first digital advertising tax in the nation, Massachusetts and several other states are pursuing digital advertising taxes of their own.
March 24, 2021
Retailers Still Challenged by Wayfair and Marketplace Sales Tax Laws
The United States Supreme Court decision in South Dakota v. Wayfair, Inc. set off an avalanche of economic nexus and marketplace facilitator laws. More than two years later, retailers of all sizes are still grappling with the debris.
March 23, 2021
Thomson Reuters Partners With Armanino LLP for Sales and Use Tax Compliance
Thomson Reuters has partnered and provided integration of its indirect tax solutions with Armanino LLP, one of the 25 largest independent accounting and business consulting firms in the nation.
March 22, 2021
Alcohol Sellers Face More Complex Nexus Rules
When we talk to direct-to-consumer (DTC) shippers of alcohol, fairly consistently there’s either a lack of awareness about how economic nexus laws can impact their business or a lot of confusion about when and how nexus changes their tax compliance ...
March 22, 2021
Georgia May Start Taxing Digital Products in July
Lawmakers in Georgia are looking to extend the state’s sales and use tax to digital goods and services. If House Bill 594 is enacted as written, audiovisual works, electronic books, video games, and a host of other digital products and services would ...
March 16, 2021
Vertex Extends Portfolio with Systax Solution to Simplify Tax Compliance for Brazilian Businesses
The addition of this product enables Vertex to continue to expand its content and footprint in Latin America, while extending Systax solutions more broadly in North America and Europe.
March 16, 2021
Virginia Gives Sales Tax Exemption to Facemasks, PPE to Help Fight Covid
Virginia has adopted a temporary sales tax exemption for personal protective equipment. Lawmakers hope it will encourage Virginia businesses to adhere to the measures necessary to control, prevent, and mitigate spread of the coronavirus.
March 11, 2021
Vertex and BigCommerce Partner for Streamlined Sales Tax Compliance
The partnership further expands the network of Vertex integrations connecting tax to ERP, procurement, billing and e-commerce systems, enabling retailers to seamlessly calculate tax for every transaction.
March 1, 2021
COVID Pushes Tax into Spotlight as Strategy for Resilience
While an economic downturn had long been anticipated, no one expected a pandemic would plunge the globe into economic chaos with such exacting scope and speed. When Congress passed the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act in ...
February 12, 2021
Avalara Announces 10 Newly Certified Integrations into Business Applications and 22 New Marketplace Customers
Avalara has been a partner-centric company since its founding in 2004, with a concerted focus on integrating with technology solutions already in use by existing and future customers. Avalara Certified integration partners have met criteria developed ...
February 9, 2021
Report Shows Trends Around Sales Tax Rates and Rules
Vertex consistently tracks sales tax rates and rules and produces detailed mid-year and end-of-year reports featuring tax data over a 10-year period. These reports are widely referenced by industry groups and indirect tax think tanks.