Illinois will stop waiving penalties and interest on unpaid sales tax for out-of-state online sellers after Saturday, Oct. 31, according to the Illinois Department of Revenue. If you ship $100,000 or more of physical goods a year to Illinois buyers and never collected the state’s tax, the Department’s bulletin offers a flat payment with the […]

The 10-year Treasury yield hit about 5.35% on Oct. 7, its highest level since 2002, and Fed minutes that day signaled another rate hike before year end. If you run a high-ticket store the way readers of Ecommerce Paradise do, that lands in three places at once: the interest on your credit lines and business […]

Thailand’s Revenue Department has published a draft law for a 1,000-baht departure tax on every air traveler, with public comment open until October 29. If you run a store from Chiang Mai, Bangkok or an island with decent Wi-Fi, this is the latest in a run of changes that has hit Thailand-based operators in about […]

Google said its September 2026 spam update finished rolling out on October 8 after 14 days, about five times longer than its August update. If your store earns any revenue from organic search, the window that muddied your Search Console data is now closed. You can finally compare a clean before with a clean after, […]

ASOS says hackers who broke into the third-party platforms it uses to message shoppers took customer names and contact details. That matters to you because the same setup sits behind every store with a customer list. If you run email, SMS, push, a helpdesk or a CRM, those tools hold names, phone numbers and addresses, […]

Shopify will start calculating sales tax on return shipping fees for US orders on Oct. 23, according to a changelog post the company published Sept. 25. If you run a high-ticket Shopify store that charges a flat fee when a customer sends back a sofa, a treadmill or a power station, that fee is about […]

Amazon cut fewer than 1,000 corporate jobs this week, including selling partner support staff, according to Reuters and GeekWire reports. If you sell on Amazon next to a Shopify store, the people who handle suspended listings and account-health cases just got thinner, and nobody outside Amazon knows by how much. If you run only your […]

American Express National Bank agreed Thursday to a $350 million penalty from the OCC over anti-money-laundering failures tied to about $13 billion in suspected trade-based money laundering. If you run ad spend, inventory and supplier payments through an Amex business card, that is your card issuer’s regulator saying its monitoring fell short. Nothing in the […]