In the News
In the News 2023
Alaska Fiscal Crisis: Sales Tax
Alaska Policy Forum, November 1, 2023
City of Old Harbor Joins Alaska Remote Seller Sales Tax Commission
SOVOS, July 27, 2023
Alaska Sales Taxes is Lowest in the Nation
The Center Square, July 18, 2023
Overcharged on Nome Sales Tax? City Says Take it up with the Retailer
Alaska Public Media, May 18, 2023
Bump in Sales Tax Revenue, Raises for City Employees Elements of Soldotna Draft Budget
Peninsula Clarion April 25, 2023
State Sales Tax … Gets First Hearing in Alaska
Alaska Beacon, March 30, 2023
Ketchikan Municipal Roundup: City Approves Sales Tax Break for Renters
KRBD, March 3, 2023
Alaska Offers Voluntary Disclosure for Unregistered Remote Sellers
Avalara, February 20, 2023
Alaska Announces Voluntary Disclosure Program
Sales Tax Institute, January 11, 2023
In the News 2022
Alaska Automates Tax Collection From Out-of-State Sales
GCN, September 14, 2022
Alaska Cities Tap Into Online Sales Tax
Alaska Journal of Commerce, June 3, 2022
Alaska Remote Sellers Sales Tax Commission
Inergency, May 2, 2022
In the News 2021
Alaska Taps Into New Tax Base
National Association of Counties, November 15, 2021
Alaska Municipal League Earns National Achievement Award for the Alaska Remote Seller Sales Tax Commission
Alaska Municipal League, June 4, 2021
North Pole Council Adopts Measure to Begin Collecting Sales Tax from Online Purchases
KUAC, March 2, 2021
In the News - 2020
Kenai Sees Returns from Remote Sales Tax
Peninsula Clarion, December 22, 2020
Online Sales Tax Helps Remote Communities Balance 2020’s Lost Local Taxes
KFSK, December 18, 2020
Alaska and Colorado Implement Centralized Systems for Local Sales Tax Filings
Forvis, December 15, 2020
City Online Sales Tax Update: So Far, So Good
KMXT, December 11, 2020
Sales Tax on Outside Purchases Projected to Raise up to $10 Million for Alaska Towns
Anchorage Daily News/Associated Press, December 1, 2020
Alaska Online Sales Tax Offers a ‘Tiny Bright Spot’ of Revenue from Some Local Communities
KTVF, November 28, 2020
Wasilla Reports Online Sales Tax Revenues
Frontiersman, September 21, 2020
Home Rule Jurisdictions Make Their Move
Bloomberg Tax, August 21, 2020
Borough Attorney Talks Remote Sales Tax
Ketchikan Daily News, July 11, 2020
Sitka Wants Piece of Internet Sales Tax Revenue
KINY, May 1, 2020
Alaska Teams Up with MUNIRevs and TTR to Help Companies Get Sales Tax Right
Cision PR Newswire, April 27, 2020
Alaska Jurisdictions Combine to Establish States’ First Nexus
TaxConnex, April 21, 2020
Establishing an Economic Nexus in Alaska
Sales Tax and More, March 18, 2020
Petersburg Assembly Advances Online Sales Tax Code
KFSK, March 5, 2020
City Closer to Implementing Online Sales Tax
Kodiak Daily Mirror, March 4, 2020
Wasilla Passes Remote Seller Sales Tax Code
Frontiersman, February 25, 2020
To Protect Local Brick and Mortar, Haines to Consider Remote Seller Tax
Alaska Public Media, February 24, 2020
Remote Sales Tax Could Give Local Businesses a Leg Up
KHNS, February 22, 2020
Kenai Readies for Online Sales Tax Collection
KDLL, February 20, 2020
More Taxes for Unalaska’s Online Shoppers
Bristol Bay Times-Dutch Harbor Fisherman, February 8, 2020
Remote Sales Tax Collection
Legislative Lunch and Learn, February 7, 2020
Sponsored by Senator Kiehl
Online Retailers to Collect and Pay City of Nome Sales Tax
The Nome Nugget, February 7, 2020
Online Sales Net More Than $70,000 in 2019
Chilkat Valley News, January 30, 2020
Bethel Joins Alaska Remote Sales Tax Commission in Order to Collect Online Sales Tax
KYUK, January 29, 2020
Alaska’s Local Governments Work to Address Remote Sales Tax
Anchorage Daily News, January 28, 2020
Borough Works to Make Clear Tax Applies to Online Sales
The Skagway News, January 14, 2020
Alaska Board Advances State’s Tax Code on Remote Sales
Law 360, January 8, 2020 (requires subscription to access)
In the News - 2019
Petersburg Assembly OKs Signing Onto Online Sales Tax Collection
KFSK, December 19, 2019
Alaska Cities Band Together to Collect Local Sales Tax From Online Merchants
The Skagway News, December 16, 2019
Sitka Joins Other Alaska Cities to Create Online Sales Tax Collection System
KCAW, December 13, 2019
Unalaska Mulls Sales Taxes for Online Purchases
Bristol Bay Times, December 6, 2019
North Pole Mayor Explores Online Sales Tax
Daily News Miner, December 2, 2019
Smaller Alaska Cities Form Commission to Collect Sales Tax from Online Retailers
Anchorage Daily News, November 26, 2019
City of Nome Plans to Join State Sales Tax Commission
KNOM, November 25, 2019
Alaska Communities Establish New Plan to Collect Sales Tax from Online Vendors
Alaska Public Media, November 22, 2019
Cities Back Online Sales Tax Initiative
Homer News, November 20, 2019
Alaska Could Soon Put Taxes on Online Sales
Juneau Empire, November 7, 2019
Alaska Creates a Statewide Online Sales Tax Collection Commission
Don’t Mess with Taxes, October 21, 2019
Questions Remain as Amazon Charges Online Sales Tax in Nome
KTOO, August 5, 2019
Amazon’s Collecting Sales Tax Now, Will Alaska Cities See That Money?
KSTK, April 5, 2019
In the News - 2018
Municipalities May Try to Collect Online Sales Tax Revenue
Alaska Journal of Commerce, July 24, 2018