The SALTcast

How To Collect Sales Tax On Shopify

November 13, 2018 Andrew H. Johnson, CPA and Daniel M. Peisner, CMI
The SALTcast
How To Collect Sales Tax On Shopify
Show Notes

Today we invited a special guest speaker, Regan from our team to join us in our discussion on how to collect sales tax on Shopify. Regan runs our registration and company set up department at our firm and she is an expert at setting up any online selling platform out there. She knows the ins and outs off all these platforms and she will shed some light on shopify today.

Here are some of the questions that we answer::

  • How do international sellers deal with sales taxes?
  • What kind of things do I need worry about as an international online seller?
  • What is origin vs destination state basis?
  • Do I need to know what states are origin based and which are destination based?
  • Does Shopify tell me what tax rate I should collect?
  • How do I know where I have nexus?
  • What do I do with the sales tax that I have collected using Shopify?
  • How do I set up Shopify to collect sales tax?
  • Is shipping and handling taxable?
  • How do I know when I have economic nexus?

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