Ohio Sales / Use Tax: Ohio joins the wave by enacting Wayfair economic nexus standards and expanding collection obligations to marketplace facilitators
July 31, 2019
Nexus for Ohio sales / use tax collection expands effective August 1, 2019 to include out-of-state sellers and marketplace facilitators that deliver at least $100,000 of sales or 200 transactions to Ohio. Ohio’s General Assembly recently enacted Am Sub. H.B. 166, the biennial budget bill, which adopted economic nexus provisions replacing the previous click-through, software,… Read More
Multistate Sales Tax: States continue to roll out their own economic nexus laws in response to Wayfair
June 11, 2019
We are approaching one year since the U.S. Supreme Court overruled 50 years of precedent to eliminate the “physical presence” bright-line rule for substantial nexus in its South Dakota v. Wayfair decision. Most states have already responded to Wayfair by enacting “economic nexus” laws requiring remote sellers to collect sales tax. This includes larger states,… Read More
Ohio’s Municipal Net Profits Tax Reform Constitutional – Centralized filing provides significant administrative benefits to companies doing business across multiple localities.
March 26, 2019
Ohio’s efforts to substantially simplify its municipal income tax regime – a much-needed reform – is permitted to move forward. Ohio instituted municipal income tax reform, which took effect with the 2018 tax year, permitted business to elect to file a centralized return with the Ohio Department of Taxation, among other uniformity measures. Ohio municipalities… Read More
Out-of-state businesses with little-to-no connection with Ohio owe commercial activity tax based upon their customers’ subsequent shipment of products to Ohio.
March 20, 2019
Ohio’s 10th District Court of Appeals affirmed the Board of Tax Appeals’ decision upholding commercial activity tax (CAT) assessments issued to a Georgia business with no activities in Ohio and minimal (if any) direction towards the state’s market. The Court held that application of the Ohio CAT’s market-based situsing principals to the taxpayer’s, Greenscapes Home… Read More