E-Commerce

Millions of small businesses selling online; the return of retro technology; and eight other developments accountants and their clients need to know about.

The Supreme Court’s 5-4 decision allows states to require out-of-state retailers to collect sales tax from customers, even if they don’t have a physical store or warehouse in the state.

A U.S. Supreme Court ruling Thursday will allow states and local governments to pursue sales taxes on more online transactions. The big question for Amazon.com Inc. is how states will collect it.

Walmart Inc. sued its former chief tax officer for violating her employment contract by defecting to online rival Amazon Inc. to become one of its senior tax executives.

Thomson Reuters released a report Tuesday examining how states are imposing corporate income taxes on out-of-state e-commerce sites.

Users of Magento's e-commerce platform will now have direct access to Vertex’s automated sales and use tax technology.

The Top 100 Firm continues to expand its NetSuite service capabilities in the U.S. and internationally.

U.S. Supreme Court justices signaled they are divided about whether to let states start collecting billions of dollars in sales taxes from internet retailers that don’t currently charge tax to their customers.

States and traditional retailers are asking the justices to overturn a 26-year-old ruling that exempts many internet merchants.

Oral arguments in the biggest U.S. Supreme Court tax case in years are just days away.

The Connecticut Department of Revenue Services recently provided a cautionary example for internet companies that don't collect taxes.

The Treasury Department issued a strongly worded statement in response to a report from the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development.

The Solicitor General urged the justices to let state and local governments collect billions of dollars from online retailers.

President Donald Trump “feels strongly” that the U.S. should permit collection of state and local sales taxes on purchases made over the internet, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said on Thursday.

Amazon has informed its third-party sellers whose products are stored in its facilities in Massachusetts that it will be providing information to the state tax authority in what is believed to be a first for the company.

The Supreme Court may be on the verge of tidying up an issue that has vexed states since the beginning of online sales—the attempt to collect tax on the sales by remote sellers into their states.

The U.S. Supreme Court will consider freeing state and local governments to collect billions of dollars in sales taxes from online retailers, agreeing to revisit a 26-year-old ruling that has made much of the internet a tax-free zone.

State governments are worried about the potential loss of tax revenue after passage of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act and may be forced to restructure their tax laws.

State and local governments could gain between $8 billion and $13 billion in tax revenue this year if states were given the authority to require sales tax collection from all remote sellers, such as e-commerce websites, according to a new government report.

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