Sales Taxes for eCommerce Businesses
DATE: October 20, 2009
LENGTH: 1 Hour
Recorded on Tuesday, October 20th, 2009, this webinar featured discussion of important sales tax related issues, including the "Amazon Tax."
The U.S. Supreme Court is clear that online merchants are liable for the collection and payment of sales taxes. But what’s not clear is how merchants are supposed to do this. Every city, county and state in the U.S. is a separate sales tax district with differing rates, limits and deadlines. An ecommerce merchant who sells products in the U.S. could therefore be subject to all of these thousands of taxing districts.
Solution Providers Can Help
Fortunately, there are now online solutions that do this for ecommerce merchants. These solution providers make it their business to know the rates, rules and deadlines of all of the sales tax districts in the U.S. They provide an online interface in a merchant’s shopping cart so that the sales taxes are collected from the customer at checkout.
- The evolution of sales taxes and why the rise of online retailers threatens the sales tax revenue of local states, cities and counties;
- The Streamlined Sales Tax Project and efforts to simplify the collection of sales taxes;
- Efforts by solution providers to assist online merchants;
- Why the problem is more complicated that it really appears.
Practical Ecommerce Contributing Editor Armando Roggio was joined by Nate Odell of Avalara, a leading provider of sales tax solutions for ecommerce merchants.
About the Moderator
Armando Roggio is contributing editor for Practical eCommerce. A longtime technology journalist, web developer and ecommerce merchant, Roggio knows first-hand the merchandising challenges faced by online retailers. Roggio will moderate this webinar, ask probing questions of the presenters and solicit questions from attendees.
This webinar has the following keyword tags: sales taxes, SSTP, Steamlined Sales Tax Project.
