Taxable sales of products direct to end users has been a staple of business for ages. One relatively new development is the complex overlay of sales tax on these transactions.
Add internet sales to the mix and you’ve got sales tax obligations sprouting up these days more than ever.
Nearly half the attendees of a recent TaxConnex webinar on multi-channel selling use direct/retail eCommerce as their main avenue of sales. (About half managed sales tax compliance completely internally and about a third managed it with technology and some internal personnel.)
Any way you handle it, sales tax is getting harder to properly, legally and completely comply with.
Source: taxconnex.com
