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The United States Supreme Court radically altered the sales tax landscape in 2018 when it decided South Dakota v. Wayfair. In light of this Supreme Court decision, 45 states, plus the District of Columbia, have enacted laws that require marketplaces - businesses that connect sellers and buyers of goods and services - to collect sales and/or use taxes on marketplace transactions. ...Read More

Missouri lawmakers have proposed H.B. 1957, which would require vendors engaging in business activities in Missouri with gross receipts from in-state sales of tangible personal property totaling $100,000 or more during a 12-month period to collect and remit use tax. The bill would also require marketplace facilitators that reach the economic nexus threshold by…

For our final Marketplace Monday of 2019, we look back at what happened this year, what people are talking about and what to expect in 2020.  Prior to 2019, only seven states had marketplace collection laws or guidance requiring marketplace collection in effect.[1]  However, in 2019 a record number of states passed state tax…

On October 17, 2019, the Hawaii Department of Taxation released Tax Information Release No. 2019-03 (“TIR”), which provided guidance regarding Hawaii’s Gross Excise Tax (“GET”) marketplace collection provisions effective January 1, 2020. On December 13, 2019, the Department issued a Revised 2019-03 to clarify the GET and use tax liability of marketplace facilitators and marketplace…

The United Kingdom and other European Union member states have been introducing measures to ensure that overseas sellers selling goods in the UK via online marketplaces are paying the right amount of VAT on those goods.

In December 2018, the European Commission announced that beginning in 2021, large online marketplaces will become responsible for ensuring…

On Friday, November 8, 2019, North Carolina’s Governor Roy Cooper signed Senate Bill 557, which among its provisions, requires marketplace facilitators to collect and remit sales tax in the state beginning on February 1, 2020. The economic thresholds for collection and remittance are gross sales of over $100,000 or two hundred or more separate…

On October 21, 2019, the Multistate Tax Commission (“MTC”) Marketplace Work Group released its draft marketplace facilitator white paper addressing issues arising from marketplace facilitator laws that have been enacted in nearly all states. The draft white paper is the result of several months of public meetings held by the Work Group. The meetings consisted…

After 46 years, the United Kingdom is braced for the impact of leaving the European Union. Brexit will inevitably have a significant impact on trade in goods and services not only with the EU but the rest of the world. The UK has negotiated a Withdrawal Agreement with the EU. This effectively sets out the…

On October 17, 2019, the Hawaii Department of Taxation released Tax Information Release No. 2019-03 (“TIR”), which provides guidance regarding Hawaii’s Gross Excise Tax (“GET”) marketplace collection provisions effective January 1, 2020. Specifically, the TIR clarified the types of businesses that qualify as marketplaces and administratively carved out certain taxpayers from the definition of marketplace…