Category Archives: Texas Sales Tax

Many More Taxpayers May Soon Pay Sales Tax on Online Purchases under the Marketplace Fairness Act

Hello, everyone.  I’m very glad to have joined The Seay Law Firm and am looking forward to the opportunity to help you with your Texas tax law issues.  I hope to share lots of interesting Texas tax information with you on this blog, particularly information about the Texas sales and use tax. For my first […]


Not Much Deference to the Comptroller From the Courts These Days

Over the last few weeks, Texas courts haven’t been giving much deference to the Texas Comptroller—at least, not to her administrative rules. Two courts have determined that certain Comptroller rules are unnecessary at best, and invalid at worse. One of those courts was the Texas Supreme Court. The Roark Case and the Texas Sales Tax […]


Amazon.com’s Texas Sales Tax Settlement: Is It Even Legal?

You’ve probably heard about Amazon.com recent $269 million Texas sales tax settlement with the Comptroller. Back in 2010, the Comptroller alleged that under existing state law, Amazon should have been collecting Texas sales tax from all of its Texas customers. Then in 2011, the Legislature balanced the budget by adding a provision to the tax code making it […]


Scrapping the Texas Property Tax?

This morning, three public policy experts asked the Ways & Means Committee of the Texas House of Representatives to consider a full repeal of the Texas property tax. The speakers included Peggy Venable from the Texas Chapter of American for Prosperity, Talmadge Heflin from the Texas Public Policy Foundation, and Debra Medina, former GOP Texas gubernatorial candidate […]


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Welcome, everyone, to the Seay Law Firm’s Texas tax law blog. It will primarily cover Texas tax law. We’ll use this space to provide updates on current events in Texas tax law, as well as provide a more in-depth look into various tax related topics that strike my interest. My goal is to make this […]


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