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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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Gross Receipts Tax

Sales Tax Audits

Dillon Tax Consulting
10/16/2023

ARE YOU READY?

It’s no secret that states are running the most significant budget shortfalls in the Post-WWII era. As a remedy, they can either raise tax rates, increase the base, add more taxes, or heighten enforcement. Clearly the most pragmatic thing, and least politically problematic thing to do is heighten enforcement. And the ...

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Amazon Affiliate Nexus

Dillon Tax Consulting
10/16/2013

IS YOUR STATE NEXT?

I was recently approached regarding a nexus question by a company that was physically located in one state. The company was considering entering into a contractual arrangement with a third-party marketing company located in numerous states. The marketing company proposed to market and promote the company through links on the marketing ...

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Sales Tax

Dillon Tax Consulting
10/16/2013

YOU DON’T KNOW THAT YOU DON’T KNOW

When I am referred in to a new client, the client and I go through a set of diagnostic questions designed to help us evaluate the company’s taxable presence, current sales tax compliance, and historical sales tax exposure. Often times, as I begin asking the ...

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State Tax Amnesties Provide a Limited Time Offer

Dillon Tax Consulting
10/16/2013

CLEANING UP THE PAST

The City of Los Angeles, Connecticut, Louisiana and Vermont currently have amnesty programs open to past taxpayer sales and/or use tax liabilities. These programs are typically only open for 8 to 10 weeks (LA, Louisiana and Connecticut’s essentially end in November 2013, and Vermont’s ends by May 1 ...

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