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Making the Most of the Annual DtC Wine Shipping Report

By Andrew Adams Andrew Adams is the editor of the Wine Analytics Report and a regular contributor to Wine Business Monthly magazine. Adams grew up in the city of Sonoma, Calif., and graduated from the University of Oregon with a degree in journalism. In addition to working at daily newspapers for more than a decade, Adams worked for […]

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Advantages of Working With a Global Service Provider

The rapid rise of digitisation continues to transform companies’ business processes. Companies have either begun their digital transformation as a result of compulsory mandates or are voluntarily making the change. While digitalisation provides time, cost and workforce efficiencies, it has enabled greater cross-border business. The increasing digitisation of tax has seen companies look to third-party […]

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Maryland Enters the World of Digital Tax

The Maryland Legislature overrode gubernatorial vetoes on two bills that substantially change how Maryland approaches digital tax. The Legislature adopted a novel rule that seeks to tax digital advertising services. Additionally, it expanded Maryland sales tax to include digital equivalents of tangible personal property. The concept of taxing the revenue earned by companies operating in […]

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Transforming Your Approach to Tax in Brazil Part I: Understanding the Dilemma

Introduction: Brazil is the world’s ninth largest economy and a country with a well-earned reputation of being perhaps the most complex tax environment on Earth. The sheer number of laws and mandates, the constant change and the risk of non-compliance resulting in significant penalties and fines is omnipresent. In this three-part blog series, we’ll look […]

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Transforming Your Approach to Tax in Brazil Part II: A New Journey Begins

Introduction: Brazil is the world’s ninth largest economy and a country with a well-earned reputation of being perhaps the most complex tax environment on Earth. The sheer number of laws and mandates, the constant change and the risk of non-compliance resulting in significant penalties and fines is omnipresent. In this three-part blog series, we’ll look […]

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Transforming Your Approach to Tax in Brazil Part III: Aligning Technology and Partnerships

Introduction: Brazil is the world’s ninth largest economy and a country with a well-earned reputation of being perhaps the most complex tax environment on Earth. The sheer number of laws and mandates, the constant change and the risk of non-compliance resulting in significant penalties and fines is omnipresent. In this three-part blog series, we’ll look […]

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Don’t Fear the Fulfillment House

Recently, lawmakers in Tennessee introduced proposed legislation that would prohibit the use of fulfillment houses by direct-to-consumer (DtC) wine shippers for their sales to the state. If passed, this legislation could severely hamper the ability of DtC wine shippers to service the state, cutting off Tennessee consumers from accessing wineries of all sizes. However impactful […]

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Importance of Owner Contact in Unclaimed Property

By: Gary Joseph and Paola Narez In order to maintain compliance with states’ unclaimed property statutes, holders must understand the types of unclaimed properties they are susceptible to generating and the conditions that would begin the running of the dormancy period for each property type (the “dormancy trigger”).  Property becomes abandoned or unclaimed when an […]

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Costa Rica: Taxation of Foreign Supply of Digital Services

Overview: The days when suppliers of digital content or services were considered out of reach of local tax authorities because they supplied products and services remotely are quickly fading. The exponential growth that the digital economy has experienced in the last several years has made it impossible to ignore countries looking for new sources of […]

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The Data: Wine DtC Shipments and Off-Premise Retail (January 2021 Special Report)

The wine market is in greater flux than ever as producers, retailers and consumers navigate the impacts of a global pandemic. Keeping a pulse on marketplace data has never been so important given these shifting dynamics. Nielsen is collaborating with Wines Vines Analytics and Sovos ShipCompliant to provide a much more comprehensive view of the […]

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New Spirit Product Registrations Continue to See High Growth, Especially Gin

Consumer buying patterns have drastically changed over the past year, affecting the beverage alcohol industry in many ways. The COVID-19 pandemic has shifted what consumers are buying, where, and how often. Sovos ShipCompliant has examined data from our Product Registration Online (PRO) tool to see just how much consumers’ buying patterns have influenced producers’ new […]

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Are New VAT Rate Freedoms Coming for EU Member States in 2022?

The EU is re-considering plans to give its Member States more freedom to determine which goods and services should be subject to reduced rates in their territory. The proposed changes would also allow Member States the opportunity to apply a third reduced rate. Current VAT rate system Currently, the EU VAT Directive gives national governments […]

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VAT and its Challenges

The basic principle of value added tax (VAT) is that the government gets a percentage of the value that is added at each step of an economic chain, which ends with the consumption of the goods or services by an individual. While VAT is paid by all parties in the chain, including the end customer, […]

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Audio Blog: South Korean E-Invoicing Summarized in 4 minutes

  Welcome to the Sovos Expert Series, today we will be talking with Selin Ring, Regulatory Counsel at Sovos about your e-invoicing obligations when operating in South Korea and how these differ from your VAT requirements elsewhere. South Korea was one of the first countries to adopt an e-invoicing regime. The first mandate came into […]

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Hungary’s CTC System Upgrade Combines e-Invoicing and Real-time Reporting

It’s busy for the Hungarian National Tax and Customs Administration (NTCA). Currently this public body is in the midst of overseeing a transition period for the real-time invoice data reporting system, from version 2.0 to version 3.0. This new version will be mandatory for all taxable persons in the country from 1 April 2021 and […]

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Five Things Businesses Need to Consider About the EU-UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement

The UK entered into a new relationship with the EU on 1 January 2021. The Transition Period ended and the EU-UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement (TCA) came into force. The UK fully implemented this into law but applied on a provisional basis by the EU. The European Parliament needs to ratify it. This is due […]

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Turkish Revenue Authority Publishes New Rules for e-Documents

Back in July 2020, the Turkish Revenue Authority (TRA) published a Draft Communique including several amendments to existing e-document regulations. Very recently, on 9 February 2021, the Draft Communique amendments were implemented into a new Communique, amending General Communique (‘Amending Communique’) with some changes, exemptions and additional provisions. Let´s take a closer look at the […]

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Audio Blog: Poland: Full Steam Ahead Towards Europe’s Next Continuous Transaction Control System

Poland: Full steam ahead towards Europe’s next Continuous Transaction Control system Poland’s new e-invoicing law is planned to come in to force in October this year, which will introduce e-invoicing via a national platform in a Continuous Transaction Control system. In this episode of the Sovos Expert Series, Harri Vivian sits down with Anna Norden, […]

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