Online sales tax

A 2024 Illinois law changing sales tax distributions has ramifications for the fiscal cliff facing Chicago-area public transit agencies.

Six Texas cities sued the state comptroller over a rule that altered where sales taxes would be collected on certain online purchases.

The complaint, targeting Louisiana’s complex sales tax collection system, comes after voters rejected a constitutional amendment to simplify local sales and use tax collection.

Louisiana voters will decide Nov. 13 on constitutional amendments that affect how income taxes are calculated and sales taxes are collected.

Revenue from the new law would replenish the state's unemployment fund and then cut taxes on commercial real estate rents.

A Senate committee has approved a bill requiring remote sellers to collect the state's 6% sales tax. It could generate $700 million in new revenue.

Only Florida and Louisiana remain among the sales tax states that have not enacted laws to require remote collection to reap the benefit of the June 2018 Supreme Court ruling in Wayfair v. South Dakota.

Thirty seven states and the District of Columbia now have laws requiring remote sales tax collection, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures.

A mechanism for taxing internet sales on out-of-state sellers could mean an additional $850 million of revenue for Texas, according to legislative analysis.

A 2018 high court decision has been positive for state and local government budgets, but not as much a boost as some of the estimates had predicted.

New York will require out-of-state retailers with annual sales of more than $300,000 or 100 transactions in the state to collect and remit sales tax.

The spending plan uses money generated by a new online sales tax and funds unspent by state agencies.

Four states will become the latest to require out-of-state e-commerce retailers to collect sales tax on Jan. 1 while 10 others aren’t expected to do so until later in 2019.

A new law takes effect Nov. 1 to allow New Jersey to collect sales tax on products shipped from out of state in the wake of the Supreme Court's Wayfair ruling.

The report found that 61% of the 341 finance officers who participated in the survey anticipate negative future impacts on their city's financial health from the termination of advance refundings, while 35% said they already have seen negative impacts.

States would be barred from starting to require the collection and remittance sales taxes from online vendors located out of state until next year under a bill introduced by two Republicans in the Senate.

As the nation’s most populous state with the largest economy, California could set the upper level benchmark for other large states such as Florida and New York that have not yet announced a sales tax remittance threshold.

Only a few of the 45 states that levy sales taxes have announced plans to begin implementation before the end of this year.

House Judiciary Chairman Bob Goodlatte, R-Va., blasted the Supreme Court’s 5-4 decision in South Dakota v. Wayfair, Inc. as having “the potential to unleash chaos for consumers and remote sellers, particularly small business sellers.”

Tuesday’s House hearing will be chaired by Rep. Bob Goodlatte, R-Va., who was a steadfast supporter of the previous standard under which a remote seller had to have a physical presence in a state in order to be required to collect sales taxes.