State-by-state economic nexus thresholds for US sales tax in 2026: sales and transaction tests, more-than versus at-least, measurement periods, which sales count, marketplace facilitator dates, and the no-sales-tax states.
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| State | Sales test | Transaction test | Period | Which sales count | MPF start | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alabama | Over $250,000 | None | Previous calendar year | Retail sales made directly by the seller, taxable and nontaxable; leave out wholesale sales backed by an Alabama resale licence and sales through a marketplace collecting under the Simplified Sellers Use Tax (SSUT) programme | 1 Jan 2019 | ALDOR FAQ, SSUT |
| Arizona (TPT) | More than $100,000 (2021 onward) | None | Prev or current | Gross proceeds from direct business with Arizona customers not facilitated by a marketplace facilitator; affiliated persons' sales added | check | A.R.S. 42-5044 |
| Arkansas | Exceeded $100,000 | Or "exceeded ... two hundred (200) taxable transactions"; exactly 200: check | Prev or current | Tangible goods, taxable services, digital codes and specified digital products delivered into Arkansas | 1 Jul 2019 | DFA remote sellers |
| California | Exceeds $500,000 | None | Preceding or current calendar year | All sales of tangible goods for delivery in California by the retailer and all related persons, including nontaxable sales such as sales for resale, and including sales facilitated through a marketplace | 1 Oct 2019 | CDTFA Wayfair guide, Wayfair FAQ, Marketplace Facilitator Act guide |
| Colorado | Exceeds $100,000 | None | Prev or current | Retail sales of goods, commodities and services into Colorado | check | CDOR out-of-state businesses |
| Connecticut | At least $100,000 and | 200 or more retail sales (both needed) | 12 months ending 30 September before the filing period | Gross receipts from sales into Connecticut | 1 Dec 2018 | DRS registering, OCG-8 |
| District of Columbia | More than $100,000 | Or more than 200 separate retail sales | Prev or current | Gross receipts from retail sales delivered into DC | 1 Apr 2019 | OTR FAQ |
| Florida | Taxable remote sales exceeding $100,000 | None | Previous calendar year | Taxable remote sales only | 1 Jul 2021 | FDOR sales tax, FDOR notice 21A01-03 |
| Georgia | Exceeding $100,000 | Or 200 or more separate retail sales | Prev or current | Retail sales of tangible goods delivered into Georgia; a remote seller may leave out facilitated sales | 1 Apr 2020 | SUT-2019-02, SUT-2020-01 |
| Hawaii (GET) | $100,000 or more | Or 200 or more separate transactions | Current or immediately preceding calendar year | Gross income from goods delivered, services used and intangibles used in Hawaii | 1 Jan 2020 | Haw. Rev. Stat. 237-2.5, Hawaii release 2019-03 |
| Idaho | check | check | check | check | check | Tax Commission site could not be read for this review |
| Illinois | $100,000 or more | None from 1 Jan 2026 (200 or more before) | 12-month lookback, re-tested each quarter | Cumulative gross receipts from sales of tangible goods to Illinois purchasers | check | IDOR FY 2026-12 |
| Indiana | More than $100,000 | None from 1 Jan 2024 | Current or preceding calendar year | Gross revenue from goods, electronically transferred products and services, taxable or not | 1 Jul 2019 | DOR FAQ, facilitators |
| Iowa | $100,000 or more (the same page also says a seller "exceeds the sales threshold": check exactly $100,000) | None | Prior calendar year, or current year once crossed | All Iowa sales revenue, including exempt, wholesale, resale and facilitator-collected sales | check | IDR remote sellers |
| Kansas | In excess of $100,000 | None | Current or immediately preceding calendar year | Cumulative gross receipts from sales to Kansas customers | check | K.S.A. 79-3702 |
| Kentucky | $100,000 or more | Or 200 or more sales | Prev or current | Gross receipts from sales into Kentucky | check | DOR notice |
| Louisiana | check | check | check | check | check | Remote Sellers Commission site could not be read for this review |
| Maine | Exceed $100,000 | None in Instructional Bulletin 43 (revised 2 Feb 2022) | Prev or current | Total gross sales of tangible goods or taxable services in Maine | check | IB 43 |
| Maryland | Exceeds $100,000 | Or 200 or more separate transactions | Prev or current | Goods or taxable services delivered in Maryland; direct and facilitated sales both counted | 1 Oct 2019 | Tax Alert 09-19 |
| Massachusetts | check | check | check | check | check | Mass.gov could not be read for this review |
| Michigan | check | check | check | check | check | Michigan.gov could not be read for this review |
| Minnesota | More than $100,000 | Or 200 or more retail sales | Prior 12-month period | Retail sales made or facilitated from outside Minnesota to Minnesota destinations | check | Minn. Stat. 297A.66 |
| Mississippi | Exceed $250,000 | None | Any twelve-month period | Sales into Mississippi | Act of 2020 (HB 379); exact date check | DOR FAQ, MPF notice |
| Missouri | Exceed $100,000 (DOR FAQ wording) | None | Preceding 12 months, tested at each quarter end | Sales of tangible goods shipped into Missouri, including marketplace sales | check | DOR FAQ |
| Nebraska | More than $100,000 | Or 200 or more transactions | Prior or current calendar year | Retail sales (all except resale), including through a marketplace | 1 Apr 2019 | DOR FAQ |
| Nevada | Exceed $100,000 | Or 200 transactions; the page says both "more than 200" and "reach 200": check | Prev or current | All Nevada sales, direct and through marketplaces | 1 Oct 2019 | Tax FAQ |
| New Jersey | Exceeds $100,000 | Or 200 or more separate transactions | Current or prior calendar year | Goods, digital products and taxable services delivered into NJ, including nontaxable retail sales | 1 Nov 2018 | Taxation FAQ |
| New Mexico (GRT) | At least $100,000 | None | Previous calendar year | Taxable gross receipts sourced to New Mexico | 1 Jul 2019 | TRD nexus |
| New York | Exceeded $500,000 and | More than 100 sales (both needed) | Immediately preceding four sales tax quarters | Gross receipts from tangible goods delivered into NY | 1 Jun 2019 | TB-ST-175, TSB-M-19(2.1)S |
| North Carolina | In excess of $100,000 | None from 1 Jul 2024 | Prev or current | Gross remote sales sourced to NC, including sales as a marketplace seller | check | Directive 24-1 |
| North Dakota | Exceed $100,000 | None | Current or previous calendar year | Taxable sales into ND | check | Tax Commissioner |
| Ohio | Over $100,000 | Or 200 or more separate sales | Current or previous calendar year | Total sales to Ohio customers | 1 Sep 2019 | Ohio FAQ |
| Oklahoma | Small-seller exception rose to $100,000 on 1 Nov 2019; current wording check | None | Previous 12 months in the June 2020 FAQ; check | Taxable sales; sales through a facilitator that collects are left out | check | OTC FAQ |
| Pennsylvania | More than $100,000 (one DOR web sentence says "at least": check exactly $100,000) | None | Previous calendar year; collect from 1 April following | All channels, taxable and nontaxable; a marketplace seller leaves out sales on which the facilitator collects | 1 Jul 2019 | DOR online retailers, Bulletin 2019-01 |
| Rhode Island | check | check | check | check | check | Division of Taxation site could not be read for this review |
| South Carolina | Exceeds $100,000 | None | Prev or current | Gross revenue from goods, electronic products and services, including exempt and wholesale sales and the seller's own goods sold on a marketplace | check | SCDOR remote sellers, Policy Manual ch. 13 |
| South Dakota | More than $100,000 | None from 1 Jul 2023 | Prev or current | Gross sales into SD, including marketplace sales | 1 Mar 2019 | 2023 updates, MP bulletin |
| Tennessee | $100,000 or more (out-of-state dealers) | None | Previous 12-month period stated for facilitators; check for dealers | All retail sales including exempt sales; not sales for resale | 1 Oct 2020 at the $100,000 level | TDOR |
| Texas | Safe harbor below $500,000; "greater than" in another publication: check exactly $500,000 | None | Preceding 12 calendar months | All taxable and nontaxable sales into Texas, including resale, exempt and (from 1 Apr 2020) marketplace sales | check | Remote sellers, FAQ, 94-108 |
| Utah | check | check | check | check | check | Tax Commission site could not be read for this review |
| Vermont | At least $100,000 | Or at least 200 transactions | 12 months before the monthly period; review at each quarter end | Sales into Vermont, taxable and nontaxable | 1 Jun 2019 | Wayfair FAQ, marketplace |
| Virginia | More than $100,000 | Or 200 or more separate retail transactions | Prev or current | Gross retail sales; a seller also using a marketplace counts only its direct sales | check | Virginia Tax |
| Washington | More than $100,000, or organized or commercially domiciled in Washington (either test) | None | Current or prior calendar year | Combined gross receipts sourced or attributed to WA: retail, wholesale, services, exempt and marketplace sales | check | DOR remote sellers |
| West Virginia | More than $100,000 | Or 200 or more separate transactions | Preceding calendar year, or the current year from the day crossed | Taxable and nontaxable sales delivered into WV | 1 Jul 2019 | Tax Division, TSD-442 |
| Wisconsin | Exceed $100,000 | None from 20 Feb 2021 | Prev or current | Gross sales into Wisconsin | check | DOR remote sellers |
| Wyoming | Exceeds $100,000 | None; repealed by Laws 2024, ch. 67 | Current or immediately preceding calendar year | Gross revenue from goods, admissions or services delivered into WY | check | Wyo. Stat. 39-15-501 |
Figures are for tax year 2026: the thresholds below are the ones the states' own pages showed on 25 September 2026. Each row names its source. Where a state's page could not be read for this review, the row says check and gives no rule of its own.
This Guide answers one question for a seller with no physical presence in a state: has it crossed that state's economic nexus threshold, so that it must register, collect and file sales tax (or Hawaii general excise tax, or New Mexico gross receipts tax)?
It covers the 45 states with a statewide sales tax and the District of Columbia (threshold, transaction test, "more than" or "at least", period, which sales count, marketplace facilitator start date), the five states with no general sales tax, and how physical presence overrides the thresholds.
It does not cover taxability, rates or sourcing; income or franchise tax nexus (except the P.L. 86-272 point below); Puerto Rico and the territories; local home-rule registrations; or voluntary disclosure and back-tax exposure (see "When to refuse or refer").
The Washington and Pennsylvania rows match the separate Washington and Pennsylvania sales tax Guides.
Read "Sales test" literally: "more than" means exactly the threshold does not trigger; "at least" or "or more" means it does. "Prev or current" means the test is met if either the previous calendar year or the current calendar year crosses it. "MPF" is the marketplace facilitator collection start date; "check" means the source reviewed did not give it.
| State | Sales test | Transaction test | Period | Which sales count | MPF start | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alabama | Over $250,000 | None | Previous calendar year | Retail sales made directly by the seller, taxable and nontaxable; leave out wholesale sales backed by an Alabama resale licence and sales through a marketplace collecting under the Simplified Sellers Use Tax (SSUT) programme | 1 Jan 2019 | ALDOR FAQ, SSUT |
| Arizona (TPT) | More than $100,000 (2021 onward) | None | Prev or current | Gross proceeds from direct business with Arizona customers not facilitated by a marketplace facilitator; affiliated persons' sales added | check | A.R.S. 42-5044 |
| Arkansas | Exceeded $100,000 | Or "exceeded ... two hundred (200) taxable transactions"; exactly 200: check | Prev or current | Tangible goods, taxable services, digital codes and specified digital products delivered into Arkansas | 1 Jul 2019 | DFA remote sellers |
| California | Exceeds $500,000 | None | Preceding or current calendar year | All sales of tangible goods for delivery in California by the retailer and all related persons, including nontaxable sales such as sales for resale, and including sales facilitated through a marketplace | 1 Oct 2019 | CDTFA Wayfair guide, Wayfair FAQ, Marketplace Facilitator Act guide |
| Colorado | Exceeds $100,000 | None | Prev or current | Retail sales of goods, commodities and services into Colorado | check | CDOR out-of-state businesses |
| Connecticut | At least $100,000 and | 200 or more retail sales (both needed) | 12 months ending 30 September before the filing period | Gross receipts from sales into Connecticut | 1 Dec 2018 | DRS registering, OCG-8 |
| District of Columbia | More than $100,000 | Or more than 200 separate retail sales | Prev or current | Gross receipts from retail sales delivered into DC | 1 Apr 2019 | OTR FAQ |
| Florida | Taxable remote sales exceeding $100,000 | None | Previous calendar year | Taxable remote sales only | 1 Jul 2021 | FDOR sales tax, FDOR notice 21A01-03 |
| Georgia | Exceeding $100,000 | Or 200 or more separate retail sales | Prev or current | Retail sales of tangible goods delivered into Georgia; a remote seller may leave out facilitated sales | 1 Apr 2020 | SUT-2019-02, SUT-2020-01 |
| Hawaii (GET) | $100,000 or more | Or 200 or more separate transactions | Current or immediately preceding calendar year | Gross income from goods delivered, services used and intangibles used in Hawaii | 1 Jan 2020 | Haw. Rev. Stat. 237-2.5, Hawaii release 2019-03 |
| Idaho | check | check | check | check | check | Tax Commission site could not be read for this review |
| Illinois | $100,000 or more | None from 1 Jan 2026 (200 or more before) | 12-month lookback, re-tested each quarter | Cumulative gross receipts from sales of tangible goods to Illinois purchasers | check | IDOR FY 2026-12 |
| Indiana | More than $100,000 | None from 1 Jan 2024 | Current or preceding calendar year | Gross revenue from goods, electronically transferred products and services, taxable or not | 1 Jul 2019 | DOR FAQ, facilitators |
| Iowa | $100,000 or more (the same page also says a seller "exceeds the sales threshold": check exactly $100,000) | None | Prior calendar year, or current year once crossed | All Iowa sales revenue, including exempt, wholesale, resale and facilitator-collected sales | check | IDR remote sellers |
| Kansas | In excess of $100,000 | None | Current or immediately preceding calendar year | Cumulative gross receipts from sales to Kansas customers | check | K.S.A. 79-3702 |
| Kentucky | $100,000 or more | Or 200 or more sales | Prev or current | Gross receipts from sales into Kentucky | check | DOR notice |
| Louisiana | check | check | check | check | check | Remote Sellers Commission site could not be read for this review |
| Maine | Exceed $100,000 | None in Instructional Bulletin 43 (revised 2 Feb 2022) | Prev or current | Total gross sales of tangible goods or taxable services in Maine | check | IB 43 |
| Maryland | Exceeds $100,000 | Or 200 or more separate transactions | Prev or current | Goods or taxable services delivered in Maryland; direct and facilitated sales both counted | 1 Oct 2019 | Tax Alert 09-19 |
| Massachusetts | check | check | check | check | check | Mass.gov could not be read for this review |
| Michigan | check | check | check | check | check | Michigan.gov could not be read for this review |
| Minnesota | More than $100,000 | Or 200 or more retail sales | Prior 12-month period | Retail sales made or facilitated from outside Minnesota to Minnesota destinations | check | Minn. Stat. 297A.66 |
| Mississippi | Exceed $250,000 | None | Any twelve-month period | Sales into Mississippi | Act of 2020 (HB 379); exact date check | DOR FAQ, MPF notice |
| Missouri | Exceed $100,000 (DOR FAQ wording) | None | Preceding 12 months, tested at each quarter end | Sales of tangible goods shipped into Missouri, including marketplace sales | check | DOR FAQ |
| Nebraska | More than $100,000 | Or 200 or more transactions | Prior or current calendar year | Retail sales (all except resale), including through a marketplace | 1 Apr 2019 | DOR FAQ |
| Nevada | Exceed $100,000 | Or 200 transactions; the page says both "more than 200" and "reach 200": check | Prev or current | All Nevada sales, direct and through marketplaces | 1 Oct 2019 | Tax FAQ |
| New Jersey | Exceeds $100,000 | Or 200 or more separate transactions | Current or prior calendar year | Goods, digital products and taxable services delivered into NJ, including nontaxable retail sales | 1 Nov 2018 | Taxation FAQ |
| New Mexico (GRT) | At least $100,000 | None | Previous calendar year | Taxable gross receipts sourced to New Mexico | 1 Jul 2019 | TRD nexus |
| New York | Exceeded $500,000 and | More than 100 sales (both needed) | Immediately preceding four sales tax quarters | Gross receipts from tangible goods delivered into NY | 1 Jun 2019 | TB-ST-175, TSB-M-19(2.1)S |
| North Carolina | In excess of $100,000 | None from 1 Jul 2024 | Prev or current | Gross remote sales sourced to NC, including sales as a marketplace seller | check | Directive 24-1 |
| North Dakota | Exceed $100,000 | None | Current or previous calendar year | Taxable sales into ND | check | Tax Commissioner |
| Ohio | Over $100,000 | Or 200 or more separate sales | Current or previous calendar year | Total sales to Ohio customers | 1 Sep 2019 | Ohio FAQ |
| Oklahoma | Small-seller exception rose to $100,000 on 1 Nov 2019; current wording check | None | Previous 12 months in the June 2020 FAQ; check | Taxable sales; sales through a facilitator that collects are left out | check | OTC FAQ |
| Pennsylvania | More than $100,000 (one DOR web sentence says "at least": check exactly $100,000) | None | Previous calendar year; collect from 1 April following | All channels, taxable and nontaxable; a marketplace seller leaves out sales on which the facilitator collects | 1 Jul 2019 | DOR online retailers, Bulletin 2019-01 |
| Rhode Island | check | check | check | check | check | Division of Taxation site could not be read for this review |
| South Carolina | Exceeds $100,000 | None | Prev or current | Gross revenue from goods, electronic products and services, including exempt and wholesale sales and the seller's own goods sold on a marketplace | check | SCDOR remote sellers, Policy Manual ch. 13 |
| South Dakota | More than $100,000 | None from 1 Jul 2023 | Prev or current | Gross sales into SD, including marketplace sales | 1 Mar 2019 | 2023 updates, MP bulletin |
| Tennessee | $100,000 or more (out-of-state dealers) | None | Previous 12-month period stated for facilitators; check for dealers | All retail sales including exempt sales; not sales for resale | 1 Oct 2020 at the $100,000 level | TDOR |
| Texas | Safe harbor below $500,000; "greater than" in another publication: check exactly $500,000 | None | Preceding 12 calendar months | All taxable and nontaxable sales into Texas, including resale, exempt and (from 1 Apr 2020) marketplace sales | check | Remote sellers, FAQ, 94-108 |
| Utah | check | check | check | check | check | Tax Commission site could not be read for this review |
| Vermont | At least $100,000 | Or at least 200 transactions | 12 months before the monthly period; review at each quarter end | Sales into Vermont, taxable and nontaxable | 1 Jun 2019 | Wayfair FAQ, marketplace |
| Virginia | More than $100,000 | Or 200 or more separate retail transactions | Prev or current | Gross retail sales; a seller also using a marketplace counts only its direct sales | check | Virginia Tax |
| Washington | More than $100,000, or organized or commercially domiciled in Washington (either test) | None | Current or prior calendar year | Combined gross receipts sourced or attributed to WA: retail, wholesale, services, exempt and marketplace sales | check | DOR remote sellers |
| West Virginia | More than $100,000 | Or 200 or more separate transactions | Preceding calendar year, or the current year from the day crossed | Taxable and nontaxable sales delivered into WV | 1 Jul 2019 | Tax Division, TSD-442 |
| Wisconsin | Exceed $100,000 | None from 20 Feb 2021 | Prev or current | Gross sales into Wisconsin | check | DOR remote sellers |
| Wyoming | Exceeds $100,000 | None; repealed by Laws 2024, ch. 67 | Current or immediately preceding calendar year | Gross revenue from goods, admissions or services delivered into WY | check | Wyo. Stat. 39-15-501 |
| State | Position | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Alaska | No statewide sales tax, but local sales taxes exist. Confirm with the Alaska Remote Seller Sales Tax Commission (ARSSTC) which local jurisdictions it administers, its current remote-seller threshold and how to register; confirm separately with any municipality that is not a member. No state source was read for this row | check |
| Delaware | Confirm with the Delaware Division of Revenue that no sales tax applies. Its gross receipts tax is levied on the business and should be assessed separately | Delaware gross receipts tax |
| Montana | Confirm with the Montana Department of Revenue that no general sales tax applies, and check any local resort taxes. No state source was read for this row | check |
| New Hampshire | Confirm with the New Hampshire Department of Revenue Administration that no general sales tax applies, and check its meals and rentals tax if the client sells meals, rooms or car rentals. No state source was read for this row | check |
| Oregon | No sales tax. The Corporate Activity Tax "is not a transactional tax, such as a retail sales tax" and has its own filing thresholds | Oregon CAT |
| Situation | Rule | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Sales of exactly $100,000 in a "more than" or "exceed" state (for example Washington, Indiana, New Jersey, South Carolina) | Not over the threshold; no nexus from the sales test alone | DOR remote sellers, SCDOR |
| Sales of exactly $100,000 in an "at least" or "or more" state (Illinois, Kentucky, Hawaii, Vermont, New Mexico, Connecticut) | Threshold met (Iowa uses both wordings: check) | IDOR FY 2026-12, Vermont FAQ |
| AND tests | Connecticut needs both 200 or more retail sales and at least $100,000; New York needs both more than $500,000 and more than 100 sales. Meeting one prong only is not enough | Connecticut DRS, TB-ST-175 |
| Transaction tests removed | Indiana from 1 Jan 2024; North Carolina from 1 Jul 2024; Wyoming (Laws 2024, ch. 67); South Dakota from 1 Jul 2023; Wisconsin from 20 Feb 2021; Illinois from 1 Jan 2026 | Row sources in the state table |
| Previous year only | Alabama, Florida, New Mexico, and Pennsylvania (collection from 1 April of the following year). A seller crossing mid-year does not start collecting that year under the sales test | ALDOR FAQ, FDOR notice 21A01-03 |
| Rolling periods | Illinois 12-month lookback re-tested quarterly; Minnesota prior 12 months; Missouri preceding 12 months at each quarter end; Texas preceding 12 calendar months; Vermont 12 months, reviewed each quarter; New York four sales tax quarters; Connecticut 12 months to 30 September; Mississippi any twelve months | Row sources in the state table |
| Taxable sales only | Florida, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oklahoma count taxable sales; a seller of mostly exempt goods can stay under | FDOR notice 21A01-03, Tax Commissioner |
| Exempt and wholesale sales included | Iowa, South Carolina, Texas, Washington, Indiana, California (nontaxable sales such as sales for resale), New Jersey (nontaxable retail) count them | IDR, SC Policy Manual, CDTFA Wayfair FAQ |
| Marketplace sales left out of the seller's own test | Arizona (not facilitated), Georgia (may exclude), Oklahoma (if facilitator collects), Pennsylvania (if facilitator collects), Virginia (direct sales only for a seller also using a marketplace), Alabama (SSUT marketplace) | A.R.S. 42-5044, SUT-2020-01 |
| Marketplace-only seller over the threshold | Must still register: South Dakota (may get non-filing status); New Jersey (may ask for a non-reporting basis); New York (register and file periodic returns even though the provider remits); Washington (B&O filing continues). No registration needed if every sale goes through a facilitator that collects: Ohio, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Missouri, and California (registered facilitator; facilitated sales still count toward the $500,000 test). Other states: check | CDTFA Marketplace Facilitator Act guide, SD 2023 updates, NJ FAQ, TB-ST-175, DOR remote sellers, Ohio FAQ, OTC FAQ, TDOR, MO FAQ |
| Sellers with no taxable retail sales | New Jersey: remote sellers making only sales for resale, or only nontaxable retail sales, need not register. South Carolina: a remote seller making only wholesale sales needs no retail licence | NJ FAQ, SC Policy Manual |
| Inventory in a marketplace warehouse | Physical presence. Connecticut requires registration "even if it is under the thresholds". Texas: below $500,000 no permit is needed if the provider has certified it will assume the seller's duties; above it, register | Connecticut DRS, Comptroller FAQ |
| Related companies | Arizona aggregates affiliated persons; California adds related persons' sales | A.R.S. 42-5044, CDTFA |
These are illustrations with invented numbers. Each assumes no physical presence unless stated.
Start dates after crossing a threshold, where the reviewed source gives them:
| State | When to register and start collecting | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Arizona | Licence once the threshold is met; remit from the first day of the month that starts at least thirty days later, for the rest of that year and the next | A.R.S. 42-5044 |
| Colorado | By the first day of the first month starting at least 90 days after current-year sales exceed $100,000; the whole year if the previous year exceeded it | CDOR |
| Iowa | First day of the next month that starts at least 30 days after crossing; through that year and the whole next year | IDR |
| Maine | On or before the first day of the first month starting at least thirty days after crossing; may cancel after two calendar years under the threshold | IB 43 |
| Missouri | No later than three months after the close of the quarter in which the 12-month total exceeds $100,000 | DOR FAQ |
| North Dakota | From the following calendar year, or 60 days after crossing, whichever is earlier | Tax Commissioner |
| New Jersey | On taxable transactions after the threshold is met (not the one that meets it), with a grace period of up to 30 calendar days to register and begin collecting | Taxation FAQ |
| Pennsylvania | Collection year runs 1 April to 31 March, based on the previous calendar year | DOR online retailers |
| South Carolina | Retail licence and remittance from the first day of the second calendar month after nexus | SC Policy Manual |
| South Dakota | By the first day of the month that starts at least thirty days after crossing | SD MP bulletin |
| Texas | No later than the first day of the fourth month after the month the $500,000 safe harbor is exceeded | Remote sellers |
| Washington | First day of the month starting at least 30 days after crossing, if not met the prior year | DOR remote sellers |
| West Virginia | On sales made after the day a threshold is reached in the current year | Tax Division |
For other states, read the start rule on the row's source. Filing frequencies and due dates are set by each state after registration and are not covered here.
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