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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 processing that is sold for a single charge with another service if the data processing service (a) does not have a separate value and (b) is ancillary to the other service.  Data processing is defined as “the computerized entry, retrieval, search, compilation, manipulation, or storage ...

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Economic Nexus Update: July 8, 2020 – TN, LA, IL

Michael T Dillon, Dillon Tax Consulting LLC
7/8/2020

As we have previously reported, since the U.S. Supreme Court’s landmark decision in South Dakota v. Wayfair, 585 U.S. __ (June 21, 2018), forty-four (44) states have adopted economic nexus provisions for sales tax compliance purposes.  The biggest trends right now continue to be that states are revising their thresholds and also adopting ...

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Where States Will Turn for Revenue in Response to Declining Sales Tax Collections?

Michael T Dillon, Dillon Tax Consulting LLC
5/27/2020

As I predicted in my March 25th post, Sales Tax Strategies During the Economic Disruption of the COVID-19 Outbreak, every state is revising its FY 2020 revenue forecasts in response to declining tax collections for March and April.  [https://www.ncsl.org/research/fiscal-policy/ coronavirus-covid-19-state-budget-updates-and-revenue-projections637208306.aspx ]  As reported by the National Conference for State Legislatures ...

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Sales Tax Strategies During the Economic Disruption of the COVID-19 Outbreak

Michael T Dillon, Dillon Tax Consulting LLC
3/25/2020

As we all hunker down or at least change our daily routines to include working from home and social distancing amidst the COVID-19 outbreak, the economy struggles to adapt to the acute and devastating change in business and consumer spending.  While the U.S. and global economy is dynamic and will undoubtedly adapt and recover ...

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