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TaxCloud™ Breezes Free Sales Tax System Across the Internet
FedTax.net announces the launch of TaxCloud, a free, web-scale sales tax calculation engine designed to support all internet merchants. The Main Street Fairness Act, introduced the same day, would...
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Friend of Bill (Delahunt)
FedTax.net CEO R. David L. Campbell was on hand to show support for the MSFA bill, and to respond to questions about whether sales tax calculation and collection can be done without causing a burden on...
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Systemax CEO: Online Sales Tax Collection is Imminent
According to this article at Multichannelmerchant.com, Systemax CEO-technology products group Gilbert Fiorentino announced during a session at eTail East in Baltimore that “States are under pressure to...
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Petition Announced in Support of Bill that Helps Protect Consumer Privacy
We think the Main Street Fairness Act H.R. 5660 has a number of strong points – it would modernize existing laws, promote a streamlined approach to tax collection, return billions of dollars to state...
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States Continue to Feel Recession’s Impact
This article recently published by the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities outlines that states are currently experiencing the steepest decline in tax receipts on record. ”As a result, even after...
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Appeals Court Ruling in Amazon, Overstock vs. New York State
The Ruling: NY_APPEALS_AMZN_2010_11_04_dec.
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Chicago Tribune Article Gets it Right
Yesterday's article in the Chicago Tribune by Columnist Eric Zorn covers all the issues related to sales tax collection by internet merchants.
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MA Senator Richard Moore: Any extension of tax cuts should include the...
Politico.com published a blog post today by Massachusetts State Senator Richard Moore which gave a ringing endorsement for the Main Street Fairness Act, and which advocates for including provisions of...
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Smartphone technology hastens the shift of sales from local to online
This Wall Street Journal article highlights the use of smart phones by in-store shoppers to find the best deal — and very often the best deal is from an online retailer. The article notes that ”The...
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CSPAN Discussion on Internet Sales Tax
The “Communicators” series on C-SPAN aired a discussion of Internet Sales Tax on Saturday, December 18. Participating in the discussion were Scott Peterson, Executive Director of the Streamlined Sales...
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Connecticut’s new Governor turns his attention to internet sales
Recent articles about the budget shortfalls in Connecticut prompted a round of discussion on whether the state should raise the state sales tax rate from 6% to 6.5%. Since many of us at FedTax.net...
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Online and Mail-Order Shopping surges almost 16% in December
..online and mail-order shopping surged 15.7% over 2009...five-sixths of e-commerce sales escape sales tax collection, even though consumers still owe the tax... expect the 112th Congress to finally...
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Senator Durbin expresses support for collecting sales tax on internet sales
According to this article in the Naperville Sun, Senator Dick Durbin is ready to co-sponsor a bill to address the issue of uncollected sales tax on internet purchases. The article states that at a...
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New Mexico and Mississippi join the list of states considering affiliate...
New Mexico representative Eleanor Chavez introduced HB 102, affiliate nexus tax legislation, on January 20, 2011. It expands the definition of “engaging in business” in New Mexico as follows: C. A...
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North Carolina settles with ACLU
The ACLU announced yesterday, February 9, that it had settled its case against the North Carolina Department of Revenue over the customer purchase information released by Amazon in response to a DOR...
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