Gail Cole

The end of the year is a good time to take stock of your business, especially if you’re a small business planning to grow in 2022. A year-end review is particularly critical this year, given COVID-19 disruptions.

Kansas is one of just a few states that taxes groceries at the full sales tax rate. That won’t be the case for much longer if Governor Laura Kelly gets her way.

The disrupting effect COVID-19 has had on the economy can’t be underplayed. It’s led to factory closures and ship quarantines at port, which has clogged the global supply chain to an astonishing degree. On November 9, 2021, for example, 111 ships were ...

Transitioning from cable to streaming services can increase choice and reduce costs for consumers, but the more people cut the cord, the less tax revenue local governments receive. That’s the crux of ongoing David-versus-Goliath-style battles in Texas ...

Change is afoot as we come to the end of 2021. As COVID-19 relaxes its stranglehold on the United States, states are considering how tax policies can be adjusted to help mitigate the worst effects of future crises.

On June 30, 2021, Missouri became the last state with a sales tax to require out-of-state sellers and marketplace facilitators to collect and remit sales and use tax. It’s been a long time coming.

Lawmakers in Kansas gathered May 3, 2021, to start finalizing the state budget and attempt to override several gubernatorial vetoes. Shortly after convening, they succeeded in overriding the veto on Senate Bill 50, which requires marketplace ...

Out-of-state sellers and marketplace providers will have to start collecting Florida sales and use tax on July 1, 2021. After years of discussion and failed attempts, Florida has enacted an economic nexus and marketplace facilitator law.

Digital advertising taxes have been introduced in Connecticut, Indiana, Montana, New York, and Washington, though the Montana measure has already been tabled.

As Maryland prepares to enforce the first digital advertising tax in the nation, Massachusetts and several other states are pursuing digital advertising taxes of their own.