March, 2024
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SaaS Sales Tax: Part IV – Compliance
Contributing author Steve Claflin, Manager SALT (State and Local Tax) Back to Introduction The issues presented in this series are intended to simply raise questions about your company’s sales tax compliance. Whether sales tax is something you never considered, or perhaps you did a thorough review with your CPA 3 years ago, now would be […]
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SaaS Sales Tax: Part III – Taxability
Contributing Author Steven Claflin, Manager SALT (State and Local Tax) Back to Introduction Perhaps the most complicated issue for a seller in the technology industry is properly identifying which revenue streams are taxable and in which jurisdictions. States complicate this determination because most sales tax laws were written before something like Software-as-a-Service existed. While some […]
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SaaS Sales Tax: Part II – Sourcing Sales
Contributing Author, Steve Claflin, Manager, SALT (State and Local Tax) Back to Introduction When a factory in Michigan ships its product to a customer in North Carolina, the sale is clearly a North Carolina sale. However, when a California software company invoices a customer in New York for 100 software licenses, and these licenses might […]
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SaaS Sales Tax: Part I – Nexus
Contributing author: Steven Claflin, Manager SALT (State and Local Tax) Back to Introduction In light of the 2018 Wayfair decision and the rise in remote workers since Covid, a technology company’s nexus profile has dramatically changed over the years. These issues might not be unique to the technology industry, but they certainly apply to most […]
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SaaS – Think you’re not subject to Sales Tax? Think again…4 Part Series
Thanks to contributing author: Steven Claflin, Manager SALT (State and Local Tax) Sales tax compliance is inherently complicated for any seller because of the unique sourcing rules, different nexus thresholds, difficult taxability determinations, and multiple layers of taxation. However, when it comes to the Technology Industry, sales tax compliance is perhaps the most complex. The […]