One of my earliest memories is crawling under a quilt frame, lying on my back on the swept floor, and looking up at the patchwork quilt being finished above me. The quilters were my mother, her mother (Granna), and her mother (Granny.) We were in a 2-room clapboard house in…

When lawmakers and pundits talk about online sales tax, they often use the phrase “level the playing field.” When throwing this term around, they generally mean that online sellers should collect sales tax on all sales to any buyer, just like their brick and mortar counterparts do. …

When I started my first business in 2008, I had some convoluted ideas about business tax. First off, being used to the W-2 grind, I barely kept any financial records. (Which didn’t turn out as badly as it could have, since I barely made any money). And when it came…

By the time most of us here at TaxJar meet in person for the first time, we’ve chatted on Flowdock daily, spoken on video chat at least once per week (or daily if we’re on the same team), and even witnessed each other belting out our best attempt at a…

At TaxJar, we love working remotely. And we’ve created a team culture and strategies that we feel make us very successful as a distributed team. We work hard and have fun daily, and our team standups and our chats over Flowdock keep us connected. Still, some of our most fun…