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Most businesses think about sales tax as something they collect from customers. Far fewer think about use tax as something they owe on their own purchases, and that gap is exactly where a lot of quiet, compounding liability builds up. Use tax isn’t an obscure or optional cousin of sales tax. It’s the same tax, […]

Most CPAs and accountants aren’t sales tax specialists, and they don’t need to be. Sales tax is its own dense, constantly shifting area of law, with rules that vary by state, by product type, and by transaction structure in ways that don’t map cleanly onto income tax or general bookkeeping expertise. Knowing when a client’s

If your business files in multiple states, “federal taxable income” isn’t a fixed number. Each state decides independently whether to adopt federal tax code changes, lock in an older version, or pick specific provisions to accept or reject. The result is a patchwork that requires separate tracking, separate calculations, and separate documentation for each state

Your tax team is diligent, experienced, and thorough. But in 2026, the most dangerous multistate sales tax risks aren’t the obvious ones. They’re the routine business activities that quietly create unexpected tax nexus triggers before anyone realizes there’s a problem. A technician sent to install equipment in another state. A consultant visiting a client site

Maryland passed the first digital advertising tax in the country in 2021. Since then, at least 13 other states have proposed something similar. None of them have passed it. That’s the honest state of play heading into 2026: one active law, a lot of pending proposals, and a legal battle in Maryland that’s far from

If you sell services across state lines, you’ve probably noticed the rules don’t follow any consistent logic. What’s taxable in Connecticut might be exempt in California. What you’ve been collecting in New York might need to be broken out differently depending on how it’s delivered. And the definitions states use — “data processing,” “information services,”

You have thousands of exemption certificates on file. Your customers submitted them, your team stored them, and you assumed you were covered. So why did the audit letter still show up? Because having a certificate on file and having a valid certificate on file are two different things. States have gotten significantly more precise about

As a Chief Financial Officer (CFO) in 2026, you must treat sales tax compliance as a major priority. You need to automate your sales tax processes and choose the right solution without wasting budget on tools that fail to fit your business. The best sales tax automation software isn’t the one with the most features.

Here’s something most contractors learn the hard way: the type of contract you sign can completely change who owes sales tax and how much. A $500,000 renovation project taxed under a lump sum contract looks very different from the same project billed as time and materials. We’re talking thousands of dollars in difference, and if

Selling in multiple states means tracking irregular tax breaks. One weekend it’s back-to-school in Texas, the next it’s emergency preparedness in Alabama, and somewhere in between, Ohio just reversed course on its expanded holiday. Miss a date or misapply an exemption, and you risk filing errors, audits and financial losses. More than 20 states have