How do you close (cancel) a sales tax permit, state by state?
The form or portal action that cancels the permit in every state, with each state's final return rule in the agency's own terms. A permit nobody uses does not close itself.
Guides
Guides for leftover state tax filings
Five guides on the leftover work: what a dissolution leaves open, what one extra-state hire makes you register for, and which states a seller owes a permit in. Two of them are reference tables, free to use and free to cite. Each guide links to the state pages it draws on.
Closures
The accounts a dissolution leaves open, and the filings that actually close them.
How do you close payroll tax accounts, state by state?
Dissolving the company does not close withholding and unemployment. This is the agency, the closing form, the deadline, and the fee for every state we have documented, so you can see which of your states holds two accounts instead of one.
AlsoWashingtonNew JerseyNew YorkVirginiaColoradoMichiganIllinoisNorth Carolina
Still getting state tax notices after closing?
Notices after a dissolve usually mean one of six things, each taken from something a state publishes. Find the one that applies to you, then close the account that is still open.
Registrations
One hire in a new state, and the accounts payroll software leaves to you.
How to choose a payroll tax registration service.
Six questions that separate the services: states covered, whether sales tax rides in the same order, closures, the pricing model, who actually files, and whether a firm can order for its clients. Each opens with the short answer.
Hired an employee in a new state? What you have to register.
Extra-state withholding and unemployment are the accounts payroll software will not open. This walks through what that one hire makes you register for, in what order, and what has to be true before the first pay run.
AlsoPayroll tax registrationPennsylvania payroll registrationNew Jersey payroll registration
When does a new-state hire trigger payroll tax registration?
What makes you a liable employer, state by state, and how long you then have to register. The thresholds are measured four different ways, which is why one number does not travel between states.
What does a sales tax permit cost in each state?
The application fee, the permit's official name, and the renewal rule in every state, verified against each agency and downloadable as CSV. Most states charge nothing; the ones that do are the surprise.
What is a resale certificate, and how does your state do it?
The document that lets you buy inventory without paying sales tax, and the split that decides everything: most states have you prepare it for each supplier, a few issue it to you. What each shape takes, what it looks like, and how it differs from the seller's permit.
Multi-state
Selling into states you are not registered in yet.
Registering for sales tax in multiple states
Extra-state sales tax permits are usually free. Working out which states you owe one in, and from what date, is the actual job, and it starts with where your inventory has physically been.
AlsoSales tax registrationNew York Certificate of AuthorityPennsylvania sales tax license