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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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Seeking What You Need To Hear vs. Seeking What You Want To Hear

Dillon Tax Consulting
6/30/2014

Sometimes my job can be quite difficult. I don’t enjoy telling the client that they have nexus, and/or that they have sales tax exposure in a state that they should address as soon as possible. Trust me, I would much rather share the news with a client that everything they are doing is ...

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Maryland High Court Attributes Nexus To Out-of-State Affiliates Due To Lack Of ‘Economic Substance’, Not Based On Unitary Nexus

Dillon Tax Consulting
4/2/2014

On March 24, 2014, Maryland’s highest court, the Court of Appeals, upheld a finding of nexus against two Delaware affiliates of W.L. Gore & Associates, Ltd. (Gore), on the premise that the affiliates lacked any economic substance [ Gore Enterprise Holdings, Inc. v. Comptroller of the Treasury, Md. Ct. App., No 36 (March 24, 2014 ...

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