Most Recent Blog Posts: Sales Tax Advice for Businesses

Adding or Changing Your State Sales Tax Profile in DAVO

Whether you are a new DAVO customer or just need to update your state sales tax profile credentials, this video will show you how and where to update this information in DAVO.

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Why Do Bars Include Sales Tax in Their Drink Prices?

Should bars still include sales tax in the price of their drinks or are they actually subsidizing part of the drink for all of their customers and giving up revenue?

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How to Manage Sales Tax with 3rd Party Apps During COVID-19

As a restaurant owner during COVID-19, you are probably relying heavily on 3rd party apps (3PAs) such as Grubhub, DoorDash, and Uber Eats. With delivery likely being the vast bulk or possibly only revenue stream available to you, it’s vitally important that you understand who is responsible for collecting and remitting sales tax through these 3rd party orders.

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What are the Long-Term Implications of Declaring Bankruptcy While Still Owing Sales Tax?

In these unprecedented times, it’s a real possibility that many small-to-medium-sized businesses will, despite every effort, be forced to close their business and declare bankruptcy. If these businesses had used the sales tax collected prior to closing their doors to sustain their business for a time, what will happen to that debt?

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Quick Tip: Check Your Delivery and Pick-Up Sales Tax Rates

Many of you have pivoted to offer take-out, delivery, and maybe even online sales during the COVID-19 crisis. If you are new to these services, we want to remind you that you need to check how the items you are selling are taxed in your state. It’s not as cut and dry as it may seem.

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10 Items to Consider for Long Term Business Continuity

We are now a few weeks into the full swing of the COVID-19 crisis in the U.S. At this point most small business owners have worked through the difficult short-term checklist of considerations to ensure that their business endures. But with no definitive end to the crisis in sight, it's time to think longer-term .

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COVID-19: The Information SMB Merchants Need

We’ve pulled together a collection of useful information from our POS partners and other sources geared toward helping you manage your business during the COVID-19 crisis.

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Should I Stop Remitting Sales Tax During the COVID-19 Crisis?

The uncertain business environment brought on by COVID-19 has businesses struggling to hold onto as much cash as possible. Many business owners are asking whether they should stop remitting sales tax and instead use it as working capital.

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Be Sure to File Your Sales Tax Returns – Even During COVID-19

In these unprecedented times of COVID-19, businesses large and small have been turned upside down. Paying taxes is likely one of the furthest things from the mind of most business owners, in spite of the fact that April 15th and April 20th tax deadlines are right around the corner.

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3 Simple Steps to Documenting Tax Exempt Sales and Avoiding Liability

Many businesses who otherwise do a good job documenting their sales fall prey to a common sales tax trap - tax-exempt sales. In order to protect themselves, owners can follow simple guidelines ensuring these sales don’t fall through the cracks.

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