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North Carolina Clarifies Subscriptions to Access Software vs. Digital Content

In a November 1, 2024 decision, the North Carolina Department of Revenue determined that a subscription to access digital content is taxable, whereas the same subscription to access nontaxable content is not subject to sales tax.  Taxpayer, for a subscription fee, provided users with access ...

As 2021 comes to an end, lets recap a few important sales tax changes and offer insight into what taxpayers can expect for 2022:

  • Economic Nexus – As of July 2021, two states, Florida and Kansas, have sales tax economic nexus. While both measures impose a safe harbor threshold of $100,000 in annual sales, below ...

As I predicted in my March 25th post, Sales Tax Strategies During the Economic Disruption of the COVID-19 Outbreak, every state is revising its FY 2020 revenue forecasts in response to declining tax collections for March and April.  [https://www.ncsl.org/research/fiscal-policy/ coronavirus-covid-19-state-budget-updates-and-revenue-projections637208306.aspx ]  As reported by the National Conference for State Legislatures ...

A number of sales tax decisions in Tennessee, Indiana and Illinois serve to remind us all of the uncertainty involving cloud computing transactions, and the importance to seek guidance from tax practitioners regarding your specific facts. While each taxpayers’ facts involved the access to and/or provision of cloud-based services, the transactions for each were ...