Find out where you actually owe tax, including the states you never registered in, and put a clean filing routine in place.
U.S. sales tax does not work the way value-added tax works in Italy, and the difference catches foreign-owned sellers out constantly. You can create a tax obligation in a state simply by selling enough there, even with no office and no people on the ground. Companies selling through their own sites and online marketplaces often build up obligations across many states without realizing it, and the exposure grows quietly until someone notices.
We start by establishing the facts: where you sell, how much, and through which channels. From there we run a nexus analysis to identify the states where you actually have obligations, separate the sales that marketplaces collect on your behalf from those you must handle yourself, and register you where you are genuinely required. Then we put a filing routine in place so compliance keeps pace as you expand, rather than becoming a problem again.
An Italian-owned food brand was shipping into dozens of states but registered in only one. We ran a nexus analysis, separated marketplace-collected sales from the rest, and registered the company where it was actually required, turning an unknown exposure into a clear, managed routine.
Partly. Marketplaces often collect on the sales that run through them, but sales through your own channels may still create obligations you must handle. The analysis separates the two so you know exactly what is yours.
That is common and manageable. We assess the past exposure and the options for resolving it, which is far better than waiting for a state to raise it first.
No, and assuming it is causes most of the trouble. It is state by state, with different rules and thresholds, which is exactly why a structured analysis matters.
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