‘Wayfair’ Likely the Hot Topic at Annual State Tax Confab

The most burning issue at a key annual gathering of state tax administrators and practitioners this week will be a familiar one: how states can deal with fast-changing rules on collecting remote sales tax.

A year after the U.S. Supreme Court’s historic South Dakota v. Wayfair decision, vendors are still getting conflicting guidance from states. The latest twist came last week when Kansas said it won’t exempt out-of-state small businesses from a requirement to collect and remit taxes on internet and other remote sales.

For that reason, attendees of the Multistate Tax Commission’s 52nd annual meeting Aug. 5-8 in Boise, ...