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New Rules for Remote Sellers in Louisiana

Beginning July 1, remote sellers making sales into Louisiana must register with the Louisiana Sales and Use Tax Commission for Remote Sellers (“the Commission”) in order to be compliant with new requirements to collect, remit and report state and local sales tax. The information below is intended to explain what companies will be impacted, what […]

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Back to Basics: Seven Things You Need to Know About CSPs & SST

This post was updated on December 13, 2021. Sales and use tax is complex and growing more so by the day. The number of jurisdictions, tax forms and rate changes makes managing these processes enough to deplete the resources of even the most experienced accounting and finance teams.  States have been working to alleviate the […]

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Making the Case: Seven Benefits of Automating Your Tax Exemption Certificate Management Process

Tax exemption certificate management might not be the topic at the forefront of every executives mind, but if your organization is serious about reducing the risk of adverse audit assessments (including penalties and interest), it’s a process you absolutely have to get right. Manual processes have proven time and time again that they are no […]

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7 Signs that Your Exemption Certificate Management Process is Putting You at Risk

Maintaining valid tax exemption certificates is one of the more difficult and labor intensive, yet critical, compliance requirements. Doing it correctly and completely is essential to protecting your business from audit exposure. As the tax landscape continues to evolve and grow more complex, managing this process is becoming increasingly difficult and time consuming. Many companies […]

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Be Wary of the Tax Implications of the COVID-19 Surcharge

As businesses begin to re-open as lockdown orders and advisories are lifted, accounting for the increased cost of doing business is top of mind. The reality is that supply chain costs are generally higher, safety and sanitation expenses are significant, and, in many cases, governmental orders are requiring businesses to operate at substantially decreased occupancy. […]

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Thinking About a Post Pandemic Sales Tax Enforcement Landscape

For those tax professionals responsible for keeping their company safe from audit risk, the time is coming (if it’s not already here) to think about how states may act to shore up budget shortfalls stemming from decrease in sales tax revenue  as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. While the US economy was (until recently) […]

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As COVID-19 Changes the Retail Landscape, are SMBs Ready for the Sales Tax Ramifications?

The COVID-19 pandemic has dramatically changed the way in which commerce is conducted in the United States and around the world. Based on current restrictions, consumers have had no other choice but to explore e-commerce options to fulfill needs for all but the most essential items and services. In turn, smaller and mid-sized businesses that […]

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GoKeyless: Life with Sales Tax Automation

GoKeyless Journey 3-part Q&A blog series This three-part blog series will cover the journey of GoKeyless as they struggle to deal with the initial impact of the South Dakota vs. Wayfair ruling. Told from the vantage point of Skip Graham, network administrator at GoKeyless, this series is an inside look at how manual compliance processes […]

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GoKeyless: In Search of the Right Sales Tax Partner

GoKeyless Journey 3-part Q&A blog series This three-part blog series will cover the journey of GoKeyless as they struggle to deal with the initial impact of the South Dakota vs. Wayfair ruling. Told from the vantage point of Skip Graham, network administrator at GoKeyless, this series is an inside look at how manual compliance processes […]

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GoKeyless: We Thought We Were Ready For Wayfair, We Were Wrong 

GoKeyless Journey 3-part Q&A blog series This three-part blog series will cover the journey of GoKeyless as they struggle to deal with the initial impact of the South Dakota vs. Wayfair ruling. Told from the vantage point of Skip Graham, network administrator at GoKeyless, this series is an inside look at how manual compliance processes […]

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Tax Considerations for Good Corporate Citizens

The COVID-19 pandemic has fundamentally changed the business landscape of our country in a matter of weeks. The demand for products such as paper products and hand sanitizers have overridden the ability of suppliers to fulfill orders. And perhaps most alarmingly, we have learned that our critical services such as hospitals, clinics and first responders […]

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Keep Your Company Safe from Audit Risk While Adapting to COVID-19

Tax compliance has always been a balancing act – directing available energy and resources on those activities and solutions that will do the most to keep your company safe from audit risk. While the challenges may differ (as resources may be less available to some businesses during the COVID-19 pandemic) the obligation of tax professionals […]

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International Tax Changes During the COVID-19 Pandemic

In the last several weeks, we have monitored many efforts by federal, state and local governments to provide relief to both businesses and individual taxpayers impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. As they relate to indirect tax (VAT/Sales Tax/GST), the measures enacted to-date have followed varying paths. Here are a few examples of the types of […]

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Selling into Pennsylvania? Sovos Can Help Ease Your Tax Burden

A year and a half removed from the Supreme Court’s decision in South Dakota v. Wayfair, states are beginning to see the benefits of implementing changes to how tax is collected for remote sellers. One of the first states to jump on the economic nexus trend was Pennsylvania. Almost immediately following the Wayfair decision, the […]

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It’s Time for Tax to Step Up and Be Heard

In a recent piece published by Deloitte, Upgrading to SAP S/4 HANA: The evolving role of the tax function in large multinationals, the case is made that the move to S/4 HANA is the right time and technology for tax to embrace digital transformation. We would agree. With SAP extending the support deadline of its […]

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New Sales Tax Modernization Being Proposed in Massachusetts

When Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker issued his Fiscal Year 2021 budget proposal in late January, he proposed several ideas purporting to modernize Massachusetts sales tax by recognizing the growing importance of technology and computing power in tax compliance. The ideas are interesting to say the least. Idea #1 – Shorter Time from Collection to Remittance […]

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From Alignment to Action: Transforming Tax Compliance on Your Terms

    What’s your digital transformation strategy? Whether you’re in IT, finance, tax or the executive suite, if that strategy doesn’t include tax, you may be overlooking a huge source of risk – and strategic benefit. It’s time to consider launching a conversation about tax in a digitally transforming world. Which is why we’ve created […]

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Aligning ERP and Tax: What’s the Enterprise Upside of Tax Compliance Modernization?

    What’s your digital transformation strategy? Whether you’re in IT, finance, tax or the executive suite, if that strategy doesn’t include tax, you may be overlooking a huge source of risk – and strategic benefit. It’s time to consider launching a conversation about tax in a digitally transforming world. Which is why we’ve created […]

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