State taxes

President Donald Trump’s promised tax overhaul may force dozens of Republican congressmen in states including New York and New Jersey into a politically damaging vote to repeal a $1.3 trillion tax break their districts use heavily.

Here’s what we know about the details of the tax reform plan: almost nothing.

States and localities made nearly 400 sales tax rate changes in the first half of this year, a big jump of over 30 percent from the same period last year.

Internet sellers have been grappling with the murky sales tax implications of online sales for well over a decade.

‘Inventory nexus’ may put clients with online sales at risk of a big sales tax bill.

The explosion of services like Airbnb brings an often overlooked compliance requirement.

Congress examines a proposal that would ‘codify Quill.’

The House passed legislation Tuesday to simplify state income tax rules for employees who travel across state lines.

The Texas legislature has passed a bill granting an exemption to CPA firms allowing them to provide a limited amount of insurance services to clients without being subject to sales taxes.

The U.S. Supreme Court refused to question a Michigan tax change that companies including IBM Corp. and Procter & Gamble Co. say will hit them retroactively with a $1 billion bill.

States are moving away from the physical presence standard for determining nexus, and toward a factor presence standard.

Imagine that you arrive home one day to find a letter from the Internal Revenue Service: “Dear Taxpayer: Although you paid your taxes in full four years ago, Congress has since decided to eliminate a deduction that you took at that time. The deduction was legal when you took it but isn’t legal anymore. We therefore require immediate payment of $10,000, the amount by which you benefited from the deduction that no longer exists.”

With the continued growth of the sharing economy, millions of Americans are utilizing services offered by companies such as Uber and Airbnb, and states are struggling to apply their existing tax laws to transactions for these and other new technologies.

President Donald Trump’s pledge to repeal Obamacare ran into a Republican buzz saw. Now, his ambitious proposal to cut taxes is again encountering GOP opposition—from lawmakers in Democratic-leaning states.

President Donald Trump's tax overhaul plan was short on specifics, but one proposal was clear enough to draw howls from residents of high-tax states. The plan would end deductions of state and local taxes from federal income taxes. Those are by far the biggest deductions for many taxpayers.

Jonathan Mariner, former CFO of Major League Baseball and now president of TaxDay, discusses how to help clients such as professional athletes deal with taxes in the different states where they work.

While it’s not the only consideration, it’s worth looking at how much a potential future home taxes retirees.

A decade ago, it wasn’t much of an issue, but awareness of the need to comply has grown exponentially.

It’s a major boon for states, according to Bennett Thrasher’s Peter Stathopoulos.

A small but growing number of states are looking for taxpayers to supply ID card information as part of their returns.