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Sales Tax Update - January 2026

1/8/2026

2026 - THE YEAR OF THE SALES TAX AUDIT

As we predicted at the beginning of last year, 2025 brought heightened enforcement and increased sales tax audit activity for remote sellers and all sellers, particularly in e-commerce, SAAS and digital service industries.  In 2025, Dillon Tax Consulting represented taxpayers in more sales tax audits that in any of our previous years (30+) in multistate sales tax.  Furthermore, the states were far more aggressive in their pursuit of additional revenues than in previous experiences.  So what are some of the reasons for this, and why do we predict that it will continue ...

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Sales Tax Update - January 2026

1/8/2026

2026 - THE YEAR OF THE SALES TAX AUDIT

As we predicted at the beginning of last year, 2025 brought heightened enforcement and increased sales tax audit activity for remote sellers and all sellers, particularly in e-commerce, SAAS and digital service industries.  In 2025, Dillon Tax Consulting represented taxpayers in more sales tax audits that in ...

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Sales Tax Update - June 2025

6/2/2025

Maryland Imposes New 3% Sales Tax on List of Software, IT and Data Services

On May 20, 2025 Governor Moore signed House Bill 352, enacting a 3% tax on a long list of software, data and IT services.  Recall that in 2021, Maryland expanded its sales tax to include digital products, which its defined broadly ...

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Sales Tax Update - April 2025

by Michael T. Dillon, Esq., Dillon Tax Consulting LLC
4/26/2025

Texas Comptroller Adopts Changes to Data Processing Services

Effective April 2, 2025, the Texas Comptroller effected changes to Texas Administrative Code Rule 3.330, addressing the definition and sales tax treatment of data processing services, most specifically (1) refining what constitutes and does not constitute data processing services, and (2) adopting an exclusion for data ...

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Sales Tax Update – March 2025

Michael T Dillon, Dillon Tax Consulting LLC
3/3/2025

North Carolina Clarifies Subscriptions to Access Software vs. Digital Content

In a November 1, 2024 decision, the North Carolina Department of Revenue determined that a subscription to access digital content is taxable, whereas the same subscription to access nontaxable content is not subject to sales tax.  Taxpayer, for a subscription fee, provided users with access ...

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E-Commerce and Drop Shipment Consulting

1/15/2025

Having previously served as Tax Director for a publicly traded e-commerce retailer, Mike not only brings his technical expertise to each client relationship, but also the practical wisdom of having successfully addressed these issues for the company.  Mike understands that every technical tax issue a company faces has practical implications which must be weighed and ...

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