California Assembly Bill (AB) 1790 passed the Legislature on September 26, 2019 and was sent to the Governor. The Governor has until October 13th to act on the bill. The Legislative Counsel’s Digest for AB 1790 states the bill would require a marketplace, as defined, to ensure that their terms and conditions regarding commercial
The shift in tax collection responsibility to marketplace facilitators raises questions on how to accurately source sales made through the marketplaces. Depending on the state sourcing rules, a marketplace facilitator may need to know whether sourcing is determined based on the presence/location of the marketplace seller in the state or the presence/location of the marketplace
The California Department of Tax and Fee Administration (“CDTFA”) issued two new special notices addressing marketplace facilitators and its new registration and filing requirements effective October 1, 2019.
In Special Notice L-694, the CTDFA reiterated that effective October 1, 2019, a marketplace facilitator is generally required to pay sales tax or collect and pay use
The shift in tax collection responsibility to marketplace facilitators raises issues regarding which party will bear the burden of any additional sales tax liability resulting from a state audit of marketplace transactions. These issues include the extent to which marketplace facilitators can rely on information provided by marketplace sellers, and to what extent marketplace sellers
In this post-Labor Day update, we wanted to highlight the following marketplace discussions to watch for this fall:
The shift in tax collection responsibility to marketplace facilitators raises questions on how to address exempt sales and related documentation requirements. States generally require sellers responsible for collecting sales and use tax to maintain that (i) sales or use tax was charged on all taxable sales, and (ii) the tax collected was subsequently reported and
Marketplace collection laws are a departure from traditional state sales tax rules that contemplate a single buyer and seller. The addition of the marketplace facilitator to a transaction, as the party responsible for collecting and remitting sales and use tax, raises the question of who is the “seller” or “retailer” (hereinafter “seller”) in a marketplace
The Multistate Tax Commission (MTC) held its annual meeting in Boise, Idaho August 5, 2019 through August 8, 2019. As part of the meeting, the MTC’s Uniformity Committee (“Committee”), which established the Marketplace Facilitator Work Group (“Work Group”) in 2018, provided an update. By way of background, at its April 25, 2019 meeting in Denver,
Qualification as a “marketplace facilitator” does not by itself give rise to a tax collection obligation. A marketplace facilitator must also have sufficient nexus with a state before it may be obligated to collect the state’s sales and use tax on marketplace sales.
Nexus for marketplaces is generally measured under a similar economic
Marketplace collection laws have shifted our common understanding of those persons that are responsible for collecting sales and use taxes. Historically, sellers have been responsible for collecting sales or use tax on sales they make to purchasers. Marketplace collection laws shift the tax collection responsibility on sales made through a marketplace from the seller to
