Sales tax nexus report now requires a % of sales fee to view?????

Accounting & Taxes

Topic summary

Shopify removed the previously included sales tax liability/nexus report from standard financial reports and no longer offers it in any plan. Access now requires paying a fee equal to 0.35% of sales.

Sales tax nexus refers to crossing thresholds that create an obligation to collect and remit sales tax in a state; the report helped merchants see when they were approaching those thresholds.

Cost example provided: at $100,000/month in sales, the new fee would be about $4,200 per year, in addition to existing Shopify fees and subscriptions.

The poster argues this is “basic but critical” information and criticizes the shift to a percentage-of-sales pricing model.

No alternative solutions, official responses, or workarounds are presented in the thread. The discussion remains open and centers on dissatisfaction with the change.

Summarized with AI on January 27. AI used: gpt-5.
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Shopify previously provided a sales tax liability report that would show you if you were approaching a sales tax nexus in any state. This was useful information and was included as a standard financial report.

I went to go review it and find it is no longer included with any Shopify plan.

Not only is this basic but critical information not available you now have to pay a percentage of sales just to get access to it again. They charge .35% of sales to access this. If you average $100k/month you are looking at $4,200 a year EXTRA just to get access to this report. This is in addition to all your other Shopify fees and subscriptions.

Thanks Shopify for continuing to take away features that were previously included and not only making them part of a higher tier plan but going above and beyond to charge a percentage of sales. Whoever thought this was a good idea should be fired.