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New Jersey's $5,000 to $1.5 Million Data Broker Law: What Selling Customer Data Now Costs Small Businesses
New Jersey's A5328 (signed June 30 2026) charges $5,000 to $1.5 million a year to register as a data broker, and extends that regime to first-party 'data collectors' that sell data gathered from their own customers. Selling sensitive data is banned outright with no consent exception at $50,000 per record, effective immediately, while registration and fees are expected to be enforced from June 2027 under a $2,500-per-day penalty.
Outsourcing Fulfillment to a 3PL: The Inventory Accounting Playbook for E-Commerce Sellers
A 3PL never owns your inventory — it stays on your balance sheet at cost until a customer buys it. Map the fee stack (receiving, storage, pick/pack, returns) to a chart of accounts, post the five journal entries you actually need, reconcile WMS on-hand to your ledger monthly, and apply LCNRV write-downs to aged stock under ASC 330.
The Federal 1099-K Threshold Is $20,000 Again — But Your State May Still Require One at $600: A State-by-State Guide for Online Sellers and Gig Platforms
Federal 1099-K filing reverted to $20,000 and more than 200 transactions for 2026, but Maryland, Massachusetts, Vermont, Virginia, DC, Montana and North Carolina still require it at $600 — learn which states keep the lower threshold, how payment-card and TPSO rules differ, and how to book gross, fees, and sales tax so your books tie to every form you receive.
Amazon's 2026 FBA Fee Overhaul: How the Fuel Surcharge, Price Bands, and Low-Inventory Fees Change Your Per-Unit Margin Math
Amazon's 2026 FBA fee overhaul restructured US fulfillment fees into price bands (under $10, $10–$50, over $50), layered on a 3.5% fuel surcharge that is excluded from the published rate card, and moved the low-inventory fee to the per-SKU level — changes that quietly reshape per-unit margin math for FBA sellers.
Product Liability Insurance for Online Sellers: What Dropshippers and Amazon FBA Merchants Actually Need
Online sellers, dropshippers, and Amazon FBA merchants sit inside the strict-liability distribution chain even when they never touch the goods. This guide covers Amazon's $1 million insurance requirement, the gaps standard policies leave — recalls, fines, claims-made traps — and the bookkeeping records that make an eighteen-month-old claim survivable.
California Just Legalized DTC Spirits Shipping: What AB 1246's One-Year Pilot Means for Craft Distillers
AB 1246 creates a Jan 1 2026–Jan 1 2027 pilot letting qualifying craft distillers ship spirits direct to California consumers — permits, limits, and bookkeeping.
Colorado Eliminates the Sales Tax Vendor Fee Jan 1, 2026: What Retailers Lose and How to Adjust
Colorado HB25B-1005 eliminates the state sales tax vendor fee Jan 1 2026 — retailers must remit 100% of state sales tax, no 4% allowance. What changes.
Form 1099-K Threshold Reverts to $20,000 and 200 Transactions: What the One Big Beautiful Bill Changed
IR-2025-107 and Fact Sheet 2025-08: One Big Beautiful Bill retroactively reinstates $20,000 and 200-transaction 1099-K threshold, undoing ARPA $600 rule. What sellers must still track.
Maine Started Taxing Netflix and Spotify on January 1, 2026: What Sellers of Digital Audio and Audiovisual Services Must Collect
Maine taxes digital audiovisual and audio services at 5.5% from Jan 1 2026 — streaming, music, podcasts, audiobooks. Who must collect and how to comply.
Retail Delivery Fees Are the Next Sales Tax Headache: What Colorado and Minnesota Charge and Who Must Collect
Colorado charges $0.29 per retail delivery and Minnesota $0.50 on orders $100+ — separate from sales tax. Thresholds, collection, and bookkeeping for 2026.
Amazon's Expanded New Selection Program: Referral Fee Caps, Free Storage, and the October 31 Deadline
Amazon's July 30, 2026 New Selection Program update caps referral fees at 10% on the first 100 units and 5% on the next 100 for new-to-FBA parent ASINs, waives storage and liquidation fees on the first 200 units for 120 days, and adds $125 in Vine and coupon credits — but existing enrollees must reconfirm by October 31, 2026 to keep qualifying new listings.
AI Shopping Agents Are Buying Things Now: A Small Seller's Guide to UCP, ACP, and the 2026 Protocol Land Grab
Four competing agentic commerce protocols — Google's UCP, OpenAI's ACP, Alibaba's trust protocol, and Stripe's MPP — launched within months of each other in early 2026. What small online sellers should actually do about machine-readable catalogs, automatic enrollment, and reconciling revenue across four new checkout channels.