New York has published guidance on how it will handle out of state sellers following the Wayfair decision in Notice N-19-1. The Notice provides:
A business that had no physical presence in New York State but has both made more than $300,000 in sales of tangible personal property delivered in the state and conducted more than 100 sales of tangible personal property delivered in the state in the immediately preceding four sales tax quarters is required to register as a sales tax vendor, and collect and timely remit the applicable state and local sales tax. 1 The sales tax quarters are: March 1 through May 31, June 1 through August 31, September 1 through November 30, and December 1 through February 28/29.
Note that, unlike South Dakota’s requirement to collect the tax if a taxpayer has over $200,000 in sales or 100 transactions, in this case, the seller has to have both $300,000 in sales and more than 100 sales in a year. However, while New York’s standard is more forgiving here than South Dakota’s, the announcement is not all good news for out of state sellers.
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