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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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Maryland

Maryland imposes sales and use tax on the sale of software and digital products

Michael T Dillon, Dillon Tax Consulting LLC
3/9/2021

Maryland will begin imposing sales tax on the sale of digital products, starting March 14, 2021.  This is an abrupt change in tax policy for a state that has historically steered away from imposing sales tax on electronically delivered and remotely accessible software, digital products, and cloud-based data and information services.  These changes may be ...

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