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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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South Carolina

South Carolina's Expansive Treatment of Cloud Computing Services as Taxable Communications

Dillon Tax Consulting
11/24/2014

As states continue to wrestle to define tax policy for the services that comprise the expanding world of cloud computing, South Carolina has again asserted its expansive approach for taxing anything that resembles communications services, including charges for Software As a Service (SAaS) or Platform As a Service (PAaS). [Private Letter Ruling #14-4, South Carolina ...

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