Online sales tax

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Doug Clark
Shifting sales-tax laws confuse many retailers

If you ask John Gebhardt whether he’s figured out all the sales-and-use-tax protocols for jurisdictions where customers of Sheffield Furniture & Interiors live, he’ll answer quickly. “No. The rules are changing, and it’s confusing.” Gebhardt handles accounting and human resources for Severegn Furniture Management, which owns Sheffield. The retailer, a

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Doug Clark
Push for tax fairness, HFA urges Florida members

It’s time to push for tax fairness in Florida. In an Action Alert to its Florida members Jan. 2, the Home Furnishings Association asked them to contact Sunshine State legislators and urge support for important tax bills. “Florida stands almost alone as a sales-tax state that has not yet enacted

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Doug Clark
Alternative online sales-tax bill advances in California Assembly

When California’s Department of Tax and Fee Administration said last December that out-of-state retailers would be required to collect taxes on their online sales into the state, lawmakers were already promising their own action. Now legislators are close to delivering. The Marketplace Facilitators Act has powerful sponsors and breezed through a committee with

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Retailers don’t see a big impact yet from online sales-tax collections

This Cyber Monday, furniture retailers probably aren’t seeing a big benefit from sales-tax collections by online competitors. “I haven’t noticed an uptick with customers saying so,” Ryan Redman, chief operating officer of Priceless Mattress and Furniture in Augusta, Maine, said on the Monday after a Thanksgiving weekend that saw good

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