Senior US Tax Research Writer
Maya turns complex US nexus, product taxability, and SaaS rules into practical workflows for modern businesses.
Maya focuses on the operational side of US sales tax: when a business should start monitoring a state, what facts change a nexus analysis, and how legal guidance should translate into checkout and filing decisions.
Every Sales Tax Kit article emphasizes primary-source research, effective dates, documented assumptions, and plain-English explanations that finance and commerce teams can apply.
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A practical 2026 guide to sales tax nexus, registration, sourcing, product taxability, filing, and marketplace sales in the United States.
Learn how state economic nexus thresholds work, which sales count, why transaction thresholds are disappearing, and how to build a defensible monitoring process.
Learn how to collect, validate, store, renew, and audit resale and exemption certificates across US sales tax jurisdictions.
A practical 2026 guide to state-by-state product taxability, with decision frameworks, transaction data, implementation steps, reconciliation, documentation, and audit controls.
A practical 2026 guide to business use tax, with decision frameworks, transaction data, implementation steps, reconciliation, documentation, and audit controls.
A practical state-by-state framework for clothing, footwear, accessories, price thresholds, sales tax holidays, rentals, alterations, shipping, and returns.
A practical guide to grocery exemptions, prepared food, beverages, supplements, restaurants, delivery, bundles, marketplaces, and product-level tax controls.
A practical California sales tax guide covering the 7.25% statewide base rate, district taxes, economic nexus, marketplaces, registration, and filing controls.
A practical Texas sales tax guide covering the 6.25% state rate, local taxes, the $500,000 remote-seller safe harbor, marketplaces, permits, and returns.
A practical Florida sales tax guide covering the 6% state rate, county discretionary surtax, remote-sales nexus, marketplaces, registration, and returns.
A practical New York sales tax guide covering the 4% state rate, local destination rates, remote-seller nexus, marketplaces, clothing, and filing.
A practical 2026 workflow for finding nexus, registering in the right states, collecting accurately, and keeping multi-state filings under control.
Learn how sales bases, measurement periods, marketplace orders, and changing transaction tests affect economic nexus monitoring in 2026.
A practical way to analyze SaaS taxability using product facts, customer location, state classifications, bundled services, and current authority.
A step-by-step sales tax registration workflow covering nexus confirmation, application data, collection dates, account setup, and post-registration controls.
Learn how sales tax sourcing identifies the jurisdiction and rate for shipped goods, pickup orders, services, remote sales, and multi-location customers.
A practical framework for classifying downloads, streaming, digital goods, online content, software, subscriptions, and automated services.
Understand consumer use tax, seller-collected use tax, untaxed purchases, inventory withdrawals, cross-jurisdiction rate differences, and reporting controls.
Learn when resale certificates apply, which form to collect, how sellers should validate them, and how to keep exemption records ready for audit.
A controlled offboarding process for confirming nexus has ended, filing final returns, closing state accounts, preserving records, and preventing future notices.
Why the shipping address usually matters more than the billing address for sales tax, where pickup and digital orders differ, and how sellers can prevent address-based rate errors.
A practical look at Alaska, Delaware, Montana, New Hampshire, and Oregon—and why “no state sales tax” does not mean every transaction is tax-free.
