Sales tax
Sales tax, explained clearly
Nexus, rates, exemptions, and filing, broken down without the jargon. Everything you need to understand how sales tax works, whether you are registering in your first state or your fiftieth.
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State sales tax differences drive compliance complexity
Discover why sales tax compliance gets complex fast. With state dependence ranging from 0% to 75%, manual compliance fails at scale. Learn how automated solutions solve multi-state tax challenges for growing businesses.
Tax Updates
Maryland's digital advertising tax: A turning point in digital economy taxation
Maryland's groundbreaking digital advertising tax faces legal challenges while generating $93M+ in revenue. Court decisions expected fall 2025 could reshape digital taxation nationwide.
Reports

Mid-year sales tax and VAT report: 2025
Anrokβs team of tax experts share the global tax updates you need to know. From new states taxing software to VAT rate changes in the EU, get updates from the first half of 2025 that could impact your business.
Customer Stories

Phin Security streamlines compliance to accelerate fundraising readiness
Phin Securityβs Director of Operations saves 20% of his time by automating sales tax compliance, gaining confidence and clarity for fundraising
Customer Stories

Sourcegraph streamlines multi-state sales tax compliance with Anrok's Stripe integration
Sourcegraph is a code intelligence platform that helps developers search, understand, and automate code changes across their entire codebase and the open internet. With a fully remote workforce and growing revenue across both B2B and B2C streams, the Sourcegraph finance team found themselves facing significant challenges navigating multi-state sales tax compliance after a demanding New York State audit. With Anrok's comprehensive compliance platform and effortless Stripe integration, Sourcegraph transformed their sales tax processes from a stressful liability into a simple, automated workflow that gives them confidence in their compliance posture across 18 states. From audit aftermath to compliance confidence After being audited in New York, Sourcegraph's finance team knew they needed a comprehensive sales tax solutionβand fast. The audit had been extraordinarily time-consuming and revealed significant compliance gaps. "Prior to Anrok, we had no solution. Then we were audited by New York," explains Desene Sterling, Controller at Sourcegraph. "The clean-up was so time-consuming. We had to do big accruals and extensive research to set up our liabilities on our balance sheets." While the company's B2B sales workflow was eventually brought into compliance, their newer product lineβa new offering processed through Stripeβremained exposed. "We weren't collecting any sales tax on those transactions," Desene shares. "It felt like we were going backward." As transaction volume increased significantly, the urgency to find a solution grew. With limited engineering resources available, connecting their Stripe payments to a tax engine seemed like a daunting challenge. "I just assumed it was going to be very difficult to set it up,β says Desene. βI thought engineering was going to have to build our sales tax solution."
Customer Stories

J2 Health scales finance operations with Tabs and Anrok
How a lean healthcare startup automated contract-based billing and multi-state tax complianceβwithout adding headcount
Product Updates
Introducing Anrokβs Stripe app: End-to-end tax compliance with a single click
Weβve launched Anrokβs Stripe appβbringing complete tax compliance from Anrok directly into Stripe Billing and Checkout.
Product Updates
Anrok partners with Tabs to unify revenue recognition and tax compliance
Tabs and Anrok are partnering together to integrate revenue automation with global tax compliance, streamlining invoice-to-cash workflows while reducing audit risk for B2B companies.