The US Supreme Court decided this week that each state can now require sales tax to be collected on internet sales. This ruling opens the door for states to do something that they haven’t been able to before: tax a lot of internet sales. tl;dr: Enable free, automated, single nexus tax calculations with WooCommerce Tax, or for additional nexus and more complex tax scenarios, and auto-filing, try TaxJar.
While WooCommerce can’t advise you on which taxes your business needs — that’s a question for your accountant — you can configure settings in WooCommerce to either manually or automatically calculate taxes based on the requirements of the new rules.
Sales Tax for eCommerce in the US: a long-contested issue
Sales tax has long applied to brick and mortar business in the United States, but eCommerce businesses have been operating largely tax-free outside their home state.
The new ruling overturns a decision made in 1992 that said businesses were exempt from sales tax unless they had a substantial connection to the particular state they operated in. The new Supreme Court ruling opens the door for states to tax sales for businesses that do not have a presence
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