tax regs for the metaverse

and 19 more tax issues for the wild world of e-commerce you didn’t know you needed to worry about.

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if you, as an accounting or tax professional, aren’t uneasy (if not terrified) by the whirl of the scary new world, you aren’t paying attention.

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it isn’t just the perpetual pandemic, the clogged logistics, the turbulent politics, the automating algorithms, the climate catastrophes, the evolving economics, and the rush of rules and regs. it’s that, and more, all interlocked in global business and tax regimes that interact with each other and keep causing each other to change.

avalara’s sixth annual “tax changes” guide rolls out a tsunami of information that generates a tsunami of questions (so far, we have 20) that every number-cruncher—small, medium or large—should at least look at.

questions about questions

here are a few questions that call for not only answers but more questions…

1. how are out-of-state retailers supposed to pay sales taxes in 13,000 sales tax jurisdictions?
2. how will mandatory electronic invoicing affect transparency and subsequent taxation?
3. what are the cookie laws for online sales, for example, in iowa and rhode island?
4. and how do repeals of cookie laws affect past obligations in, say, ohio?
5. as the pandemic retreats, do brick-and-mortar clients need to renew or meet new license requirements as shops reopen?
6. how will logistics costs and complications affect inventory and jit manufacturing?
7. how will purchase limits, driven by low supply/high demand, affect sales and profitability?
8. how do past, present and future tax relief programs affect past, present and future employment and tax obligations?
9. how does a company keep up with the tax nexus in puerto rico, the small-seller exemption in kansas, the 2,000+ overlapping jurisdictions in missouri, enforcement of over 100 different local sales taxes in alaska, requirements for immediate sales tax registration in ohio and the 60-day reporting requirement in kentucky?
10. do state marketplace facilitator laws simplify or complicate?
11. what are the tax implications of third-party fulfillment vs. dropshipping?
12. should accounting firms ask clients to hire sales tax compliance specialists?
13. how are state tax agencies mining data to detect noncompliance?
14. are clients complying with the e-invoicing that is mandatory in most of the world (and maybe soon in the us)?
15. what do tax obligations look like in the metaverse?
16. can you explain to clients the 10-digit harmonized system that went into effect around the world on jan. 1, 2022?
17. how do national tax authorities insert themselves into transactions in hungary, brazil, south korea and italy?
18. how might the global minimum tax plan raise some taxes while lowering others?
19. can you get up to speed on digital advertising taxes, online learning taxes, rental car-sharing taxes? and good luck figuring out the jurisdictions of cyberspace.
20. seventeen states have sales tax holidays, but 33 don’t… that could change. how do holidays figure into buy online, pick-up in-store (bopis) and buy now, pay later (bnpl)?

while these and many other questions about ongoing changes may lead to a pandemic of headaches and ulcers in the accounting industry, just imagine how they impact businesses that are not in the business of accounting.

just remember: there’s an opportunity in every headache, and every ulcer has a silver lining.

 

posted on january 12, 2022