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Penny Sweeting explains California's new SaaS tax law and its implications for growing businesses.

California's New SaaS Tax Law Explained State tax rules can quietly become one of the biggest risks facing growing businesses. Penny Sweeting is a Senior Tax Manager at Withum specializing in state and local tax (SALT), nexus, and multi-state expansion. She helps businesses identify tax exposure before it becomes an expensive compliance problem, particularly as companies grow across state lines, hire remote employees, or prepare for mergers and acquisitions. In this episode, Penny explains what tax nexus really means, how economic and physical presence create tax obligations, why California's new SaaS tax rules are a major development, and how proactive planning can reduce risk, uncover savings, and protect business value during growth. Key Takeaways: ● Physical and economic nexus create different tax obligations that every growing business should understand. ● Remote employees, third-party inventory, and e-commerce expansion can unexpectedly trigger multi-state tax exposure. ● California's new SaaS tax rules make it critical for software companies selling into the state to prepare before 2027. ● M&A due diligence frequently uncovers hidden state tax liabilities that can…

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Host: Seth Greene

Guest: Penny Sweeting

Topics covered

• tax law
• SaaS
• California
• business growth
• tax compliance

Keywords

• SaaS tax
• California tax law
• tax nexus
• business compliance
• multi-state tax

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Withum

Products: SaaS

Places: California

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