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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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Sales Tax: Strategic Thinking as Your Business Plans for 2024

Michael T Dillon, Dillon Tax Consulting LLC
11/21/2023

As 2023 comes to an end, lets recap a few important sales tax changes and offer insight into what taxpayers can expect for 2024:

·      Economic Nexus Transaction Counts – Initially, more than half of the states adopting economic nexus thresholds included a transaction count element as part of the threshold, meaning that a remote seller would ...

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