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Sales Tax Update - June 2025

6/2/2025

Maryland Imposes New 3% Sales Tax on List of Software, IT and Data Services

On May 20, 2025 Governor Moore signed House Bill 352, enacting a 3% tax on a long list of software, data and IT services.  Recall that in 2021, Maryland expanded its sales tax to include digital products, which its defined broadly to include computer software regardless of method of delivery and certain business to business services. Excluded from taxable software requires configuration (i.e., does not operate immediately “out of the box”) and customized software.  In July 2022, Maryland effected additional sales tax legislation to exclude ...

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2022 – the Year of the Sales Tax Audit

Michael T Dillon, Dillon Tax Consulting LLC
12/8/2021

2022 is expected to bring heightened enforcement and increased sales tax audit activity for remote sellers.  Charles Maniace, a vice president at the tax software firm Sovos, states that “States are now truly ready to [start] being fairly aggressive in their enforcement against existing online sellers.”  [Forbes, Sales Taxes in 2022 – Issues to Watch for ...

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States Are Looking for Unregistered / Unpaid Sales Tax . . . Are You at Risk?

Dillon Tax Consulting
2/9/2017

With New Years Day comes New Years Resolutions, some of which we keep, some of which we don’t, and some of which we fail to make because we aren’t even aware that one is needed. The same holds true for your business. Often times, “We Don’t Know What We Don’t Know ...

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