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The Massachusetts Appellate Tax Board (ATB) held that an auto body repair shop owed sales tax on the full receipts from its repair services because it failed to separately state nontaxable labor charges from taxable tangible personal property costs, notwithstanding that the shop itself paid sales tax when purchasing the tangible personal property incorporated into…

The U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois ruled that the National Bank Act (NBA) does not preempt Illinois’ Interchange Fee Prohibition Act (IFPA), which prohibits credit card and debit card transaction processors from charging interchange fees on the portion of any card transaction that includes state and local taxes and gratuities.

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Bundled and mixed transactions continue to play an ever‑increasing role in New York sales tax determinations, particularly where nontaxable services are sold with software or other taxable property for one nonitemized price.

In this installment of “A Pinch of SALT,” published by Tax Notes State, Eversheds Sutherland attorneys Jeremy Gove and Periklis Fokaidis examine…

In Det. No. 23-0004, 45 WTD 013 (2026), the Washington Department of Revenue (DOR) concluded that professional implementation services and associated travel reimbursements are subject to retail sales tax when provided exclusively in connection with a Digital Automated Service (DAS).

The taxpayer was a software provider that offered cloud-based solutions to state and local…

On July 23, 2025, the Indiana Department of State Revenue issued Revenue Ruling # 2025-02-RST holding that generative artificial intelligence (AI) services accessed through web browsers or application programming interfaces are considered services and not subject to sales/use tax. The ruling involved a company headquartered outside of Indiana that provides advanced AI services to customers…

The New York Division of Tax Appeals determined that the taxpayer’s sale of a document management services was a taxable sale of software. While the taxpayer argued that its service was a nontaxable, cloud-based platform-as-a-service, the ALJ disagreed. Instead, the ALJ concluded that the taxpayer’s software was the “core element” of the platform, and customers…

The New York Appellate Division, Third Department recently held that a group of taxpayer-plaintiffs were not required to exhaust administrative remedies before commencing an action to declare their services were exempt from sales tax, even though they had not challenged their audit determinations before the New York State Tax Appeals Tribunal. 

Ordinarily, taxpayers in New…

On May 20, 2025, the last day for bill signing, Washington Governor Ferguson signed two key tax bills that expand the sales tax to include additional services and increase the rates of the (awful) business and occupation (B&O) tax. Some of these increases are targeted at certain industries and will incite litigation. A projected budget…

The Iowa Department of Revenue ruled that while a data center property owner and its tenant can both independently qualify for the sales tax exemption for data center businesses, the property owner and the tenant cannot aggregate their investments to meet the minimum investment requirement. Iowa law provides a sales tax exemption for data center…