Unsure where you owe sales or use tax or dealing with legacy compliance pain?
Check Your ExposureEconomic nexus is triggered when a business exceeds thresholds defined by a state, even without physical presence. These thresholds typically depend on revenue, transaction counts, and the measurement period. Because rules differ by state, tracking economic nexus for sales and use tax manually is error prone. If you want to understand the concept first, see sales tax nexus explained. If you want to see how this applies to your data, see how TaxMap works.
This page is designed to help you understand the general structure and what to look for, then map sales and use tax exposure using your own data. TaxMap evaluates your activity against jurisdiction rules and flags where you may be triggered, near threshold, or currently compliant. For the product view, see TaxMap Product.
States commonly evaluate:
Even if you know a threshold, you still need to answer:
Once you know where thresholds may be triggered, the next step is mapping sales and use tax exposure and moving toward compliance.
Use tax is often missed even when sales tax thresholds are actively tracked. Review use tax explained. For a full explanation of nexus, see sales tax nexus.