Shaking things up in state and local tax
Shaking things up in state and local tax
The DC Council is considering a new sales tax on advertising services, including digital advertising services, and personal information.
On July 6, the DC Council released the Committee Print of the Fiscal Year 2021 Budget Support Act of 2020, which includes a sales tax expansion to those services beginning October 1, 2020 at the reduced…
On June 24, the Rhode Island Governor signed into law S2650 Substitute A, which clarifies the state’s sales taxation of cloud computing and streaming digital products to comply with the Streamlined Sales & Use Tax Agreement. The bill amends the definition of a taxable sale to include any license, lease, or rental of prewritten…
Indiana released Information Bulletin #89 updating guidance for remote sellers and marketplace facilitators. The guidance, which became effective July 1, implements SEA 408. It also notes, among other things, that marketplace facilitators must include both transactions made on its own behalf and transactions facilitated on behalf of their sellers when making the determination as…
The recently introduced SB 8627 would require short-term rental platforms to collect and remit sales taxes on behalf of the hosts on rental units leased outside of New York City. A similar measure was introduced last year but died in committee.
Wisconsin’s Department of Revenue (DOR) released two proposed guidance documents answering common questions and clarifying rules applicable to marketplace sellers and providers. The proposed Marketplace Provider Common Questions generally explains the DOR registration process and offers other clarifications; for example, it notes that facilitators can prepare a single sales tax return that includes all facilitated…
On June 30, the North Carolina Governor signed into law a wide-ranging tax bill that includes marketplace facilitator rules for meals taxes and clarifies sales tax for download codes. HB 1080 extends marketplace facilitator collection and remittance obligations to local meals taxes, effective July 1, 2020. In addition, the law clarifies that the sale of…
On June 30, Mississippi became the latest state to enact a marketplace facilitator law after Governor Tate Reeves signed House Bill 379, also known as the “Mississippi Marketplace Facilitator Act of 2020.” The law requires most marketplace facilitators to collect sales and use tax on behalf of marketplace sellers beginning on July 1, 2020.…
On June 30, Tennessee’s governor signed SB 2932 into law as Public Chapter 759. Effective October 1, 2020, the law requires a dealer or marketplace facilitator with no physical presence in the state and $100,000 in total sales in the state in the previous 12 months to register and collect sales and use tax. The…
The New York State Assembly will consider AB 10706, the Digital Ad Tax Act or DATA, which would impose a sliding scale of taxes on digital advertising services that use personal information about the people the advertisements are targeting. The tax starts at 2.5% imposed on the annual gross revenues derived from digital advertising…
The Arkansas Department of Finance & Administration issued an opinion stating that the provision of certain “virtual services,” including bookkeeping, project management, business analysis, email management, research, and customer service, provided via the Internet, are not subject to Arkansas sales tax. Arkansas sales tax is imposed on the gross proceeds from all sales of tangible…
