When preparing an invoice for a client, in some cases you must charge sales tax. To calculate the sales tax due, you first have to gather information from the state's finance bureau and carefully ...

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A small business that sells goods or services in a state with a sales tax must collect the tax from customers and regularly remit it to the state's department of revenue. When you're unable to collect ...