Online Sales Tax news and trends

Who Pays A Higher Price For Online Sales Tax?
eCommerce // October 28, 2019

The 2018 South Dakota v. Wayfair case that allowed states and individual cities to launch tax policies aimed at remote sellers and marketplaces is still reverberating in 2019 and will likely affect online retail in 2020. In Q3 2019, 14 states started collected online sales...

SMBs Face Policy Headwinds, From Trade Tariffs To SCOTUS
B2B Payments // July 02, 2018

Small businesses have been inundated with a regulatory storm this past week. From a Supreme Court decision with possible implications for small online merchants, to SMBs’ preparations for U.S. trade tariffs, policy is keeping entrepreneurs on their toes. Surveys gauging the sentiment of the small...

Etsy’s Reset (And Its Discontents)
Retail // June 27, 2018

The story at Etsy in summer 2018 is a much more cheerful tale than the story of Etsy entering the summer of 2017. After a big switch at the top — in May 2017, the board fired the firm’s longtime CEO Chad Dickerson and put former...