In This Issue

• Your April compliance checklist: Q1 quarterlies are due, don't get caught off guard 

• Tax holidays to know: Missouri, Texas, and what's coming in May 

• Platform updates: introducing custom analytics views

• Customer story: How Symbiome put sales tax on autopilot 

This month, we hit a milestone we’re very proud of: automated sales tax, VAT, and GST coverage across 100+ countries.

Our goal has always been to make sure sales tax compliance doesn't become a barrier to growth. Every market we've added has reinforced the same lesson: fragmented tools and local workarounds create real structural risk as you scale.

We're not done yet. Our goal is global coverage that empowers organizations of all sizes to grow, even across borders.

Your April 2026 Compliance Checklist

April is one of the heavier months on the compliance calendar. Q1 quarterlies are due, monthly filings are on the usual schedule, and state revenue departments are paying attention.

Between nexus reviews, return prep, exemption certificate refreshes, and deadline tracking across multiple states, it adds up fast.

📋➡️Get the April 2026 Sales Tax Compliance Checklist here. 

Tax Holidays

If you sell qualifying products into Texas, May 23-25 requires preparation across two overlapping exemption categories. Start your product mapping now.

🔷 Texas: Annual Energy Star Holiday May 23-25
Qualifying products include Energy Star home appliances ranging from refrigerators to lightbulbs. Water-saving products used for groundwater conservation or ambient temperature reduction also qualify.

🔷 Texas: Water Efficient Products Holiday May 23-25
Any product displaying a WaterSense logo qualifies.

Platform Updates

⚡Most of our customers spend only minutes per month on sales tax. We’re constantly improving transaction processing speed to save customers even more time: this month, we’ve reduced processing time to half what it used to take. 

For high-volume sellers, this completely changes the game when it comes to reconciliation, filing prep, and waiting time. 

Success Stories

Symbiome is a science-led skincare brand that's been a Kintsugi customer since 2022. Three years in, COO Adam Klausner spends less than 30 minutes a month on sales tax compliance, and that includes checking the dashboard. Now, as Symbiome reaches nexus in new states, Kintsugi catches and handles it automatically. The Shopify integration runs seamlessly in the background. Adam is the only one who logs in, and rarely for long.

➡️ Read the full story

Ask Kintsugi

Real questions from customers, answered by our tax experts.

🤔 A customer is moving out of a state but plans to continue using that state's address in our system. What should they update their presence category to?

🤔 The correct category for this scenario is "Telecommuting or Remote Employee." This ensures the nexus classification reflects the actual situation, which matters for accurate monitoring and filing.

🤔 Does a customer need to register in every state where a third-party fulfillment center like Amazon is holding inventory?

🤔 Yes. Inventory stored in a fulfillment center creates physical nexus in that state, which means registration is required in each state where inventory is held. The good news: most states (with the exception of Alabama and Massachusetts) allow a future start date on registrations, so customers aren't filing $0 returns before inventory actually arrives. 

Have a question of your own? Ask in the comments, and one of our tax experts will address it in next month’s issue of Kintsugi Sales Tax Monthly.

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