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This is where we publish plain-English guides on U.S. sales tax nexus and consumer privacy law for independent Shopify merchants. Every article traces to verified official government sources. Check back weekly for new guides.
Further Reading
Four States Now Ban Selling Your Customers' Exact Location — Is Yours Next
Virginia, Connecticut, Maryland, and Oregon have each independently banned the sale of precise geolocation data within the same general stretch of time. A pattern like this rarely stays confined to four states for long.
Utah's New Tax Has Nothing to Do With Nexus Thresholds — And That's the Point
As of this month, Utah taxes a specific category of digital content at 2%, tied to age-verification requirements. It's a genuinely different kind of obligation than the nexus thresholds most sellers are used to tracking.