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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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MTC Amnesty Program Provides Current Solution for Online Sellers Seeking to Resolve Sales Tax Compliance Nightmares

9/7/2017


If you’re an online seller using the Amazon FBA program to facilitate sales, there’s a lot to absorb and consider these days regarding sales tax compliance.  Depending on who you talk to, you may get different advice:

  1. Some attorneys, hungry to fight the legal issues in court (a highly costly endeavor with no ...
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“What’s A Remote Seller To Do?” you ask. “Register and Collect,” states say.

Dillon Tax Consulting
7/29/2015

Ohio is the most recent of states to have enacted a click-through nexus provision. To date, 24 other states have adopted (by statute or otherwise) some form of either an affiliate nexus or a click-through nexus provision.

Under an affiliate nexus provision, a rebuttable presumption of nexus is typically established for an out-of-state seller that ...

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Try, Try Again ... Illinois Imposes a New and “Improved?” Affiliate Nexus Law

Dillon Tax Consulting
2/10/2015

Effective January 1, 2015, out-of-state retailers are once again presumed to have sales tax nexus in Illinois if they satisfy the following criteria:

  • the out-of-state retailer has a contract with a person in Illinois;
  • under the contract, the person in Illinois refers potential customers to the retailer and the retailer pays to the person in ...
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