Tax News

Top Story

Sales Tax Update - January 2026

1/8/2026

2026 - THE YEAR OF THE SALES TAX AUDIT

As we predicted at the beginning of last year, 2025 brought heightened enforcement and increased sales tax audit activity for remote sellers and all sellers, particularly in e-commerce, SAAS and digital service industries.  In 2025, Dillon Tax Consulting represented taxpayers in more sales tax audits that in any of our previous years (30+) in multistate sales tax.  Furthermore, the states were far more aggressive in their pursuit of additional revenues than in previous experiences.  So what are some of the reasons for this, and why do we predict that it will continue ...

read more

Archive

Wayfair: The U.S. Supreme Court Throws Out the Physical Presence Requirement for Sales Tax Nexus – What Does This Mean for Remote Sellers?

Michael T Dillon, Dillon Tax Consulting LLC
6/22/2018

As I predicted in my March 24, 2018 article “The Future of the Quill Sales Tax “Physical Presence” Nexus Standard – Part Two”, yesterday the United States Supreme Court threw out the 51 year old physical presence sales tax nexus standard, when it rendered its decision in South Dakota v. Wayfair, Inc., et al ., 585 U ...

read more

The Future of the Quill Sales Tax “Physical Presence” Nexus Standard – Part Two

Michael T Dillon, Dillon Tax Consulting LLC
3/24/2018

In Part One of this two-part article, we discussed the physical-presence requirement for sales tax nexus, as established by the U.S. Supreme Court in the 1992 case Quill Corp. v. North Dakota, 504 U.S. 298 (1992).  We also provided an overview of the Court’s decisions that led to the Quill physical-presence standard ...

read more

The Future of the Quill Sales Tax “Physical Presence” Nexus Standard – Part One

Michael T Dillon, Dillon Tax Consulting LLC
3/7/2018


The United States Supreme Court is set to hear oral arguments on April 17, 2018, in South Dakota v. Wayfair, Inc. et. al. [South Dakota v. Wayfair Inc., et. al., 901 N.W.2d 754 (S.D. September 13, 2017); cert. granted (U.S. January 12, 2018)(No. 17-494)]  At issue is whether the Court ...

read more