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Maryland’s High Court Hands the State a Big Win in its Digital Ad Tax Dispute, More Challenges to Follow

Last fall, when a Maryland County Circuit Court held that the Maryland Digital Ad Tax violated the dormant commerce clause, the supremacy clause, the Internet Tax Freedom Act, and the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution,...more

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The Wayfair Decision: How Technology is Changing State Tax Laws

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The U.S. Supreme Court decision in South Dakota v. Wayfair, Inc. 138 S. Ct. 2080 (2018) upended how businesses think about state tax compliance. In Wayfair, the Court upheld a South Dakota sales tax law that taxed...more

Miller Nash LLP

When Worlds Collide: How Tangible Tax Burdens Attach to Digital Commerce in the United States (Part 2)

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Part 1 of this series discussed the proposals adopted by various countries to impose taxes on the digital economy, particularly by taxing various types of digital advertising and other digital services. These taxes allow...more

Rivkin Radler LLP

Like A Good Neighbor, New York Is Still Free To Tax You – Sorry For The Inconvenience

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NH vs MA- Last week, the U.S. Supreme Court denied New Hampshire’s request that the Court exercise its original jurisdiction under the Constitution[i] to hear and resolve a conflict involving the taxation by Massachusetts...more

Akerman LLP - SALT Insights

Updated: Maryland’s Latest Attempt to Fix its Digital Ad Tax May Lead to More Litigation

Shortly after Maryland passed the country’s first “Digital Advertising Gross Revenues Tax”, H.B. 732, the Maryland Senate went to work attempting to fix a few known glitches in the law. Senate Bill 787, which passed the...more

Morgan Lewis - Tech & Sourcing

Maryland Is First State to Enact Digital Advertising Tax

Maryland enacted a state tax on digital advertising gross revenues on February 12, after overriding the governor’s veto. The passed law, which is the first of its kind in the United States, imposes “a tax on certain annual...more

Akerman LLP - SALT Insights

Word Play: The Curious Case of Economic Nexus Legislation in Florida

In June 2018, the United States Supreme Court in Wayfair held that the physical presence of the taxpayer was no longer a prerequisite for imposition of a sales tax. In so doing, the Court blessed the concept of “economic...more

Akerman LLP - SALT Insights

Maryland’s Latest Attempt to Fix its Digital Ad Tax May Lead to More Litigation

Shortly after Maryland passed the country’s first “Digital Advertising Gross Revenues Tax,” H.B. 732, the Maryland Senate went to work attempting to fix a few known glitches in the law. ...more

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Coronavirus: The Hill and the Headlines – COVID-19 D.C. Update – September 2020 # 13

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In Washington - Trump health administration officials testified Wednesday before the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee on the nation's response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Dr. Anthony Fauci of the NIH,...more

Eversheds Sutherland (US) LLP

Tax on digital advertising introduced in Maryland Senate, hon

Maryland State Senators Miller and Ferguson have introduced legislation (Senate Bill 2) that would impose a new Digital Advertising Gross Revenues Tax for all taxable years beginning after December 31, 2020. If signed into...more

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Arizona's Remote Seller/Marketplace Facilitator Legislation Takes Effect October 1

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Arizona Governor Doug Ducey signed House Bill (H.B.) 2757 into law on May 31, 2019. H.B. 2757 requires “remote sellers” and “marketplace facilitators” to begin filing and paying transaction privilege tax (TPT) in Arizona...more

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Connecticut Seeks a Part of the Wayfair Action

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A bill passed in Connecticut’s 2018 legislative session seeks to expand the conditions under which certain out-of-state retailers must collect and remit Connecticut sales tax....more

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Iowa Legislature Passes Kill-Quill Bill

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On May 5, 2018, the Iowa Legislature passed Senate File 2417. It is the most significant Iowa income tax cut bill in recent memory and substantially lowers individual Iowa income tax rates. It conforms to many provisions of...more

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

Two Recent Business License Tax Cases Show Increasingly Aggressive Municipalities

Alabama local governments are combatting revenue losses and concomitant budget issues primarily because of the loss of their sales tax base to online sellers and because of their citizens’ demand for more or increasingly...more

Eversheds Sutherland (US) LLP

Here’s the Deal: Georgia Governor Signs Several Significant Tax Bills

Following the conclusion of Georgia’s 2016 legislative session, Governor Nathan Deal signed into law several tax bills touching on a wide range of tax matters, including sales and use taxes, property taxes, corporate income...more

Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner

E-Commerce: Do I have an obligation to collect state sales tax?

When making sales or conducting business on the internet, it is easy to overlook state sales tax. Whether you make a sale of tangible property online, on the phone, by fax, via a purchase order, or other medium, you are...more

Eversheds Sutherland (US) LLP

The Grandpappy of All Extensions: Congress Permanently Extends the Internet Tax Freedom Act

On February 11, the United States Senate approved a permanent extension of the Internet Tax Freedom Act (ITFA) contained in the Conference Report accompanying H.R. 644, the “Trade Facilitation and Trade Enforcement Act of...more

McDermott Will & Emery

House Judiciary Committee Approves Three State Tax Bills

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Yesterday, on June 17, 2015, three state tax bills were favorably reported to the United States House of Representatives (House) by the House Judiciary Committee (House Judiciary) after considering each during a half-day...more

Eversheds Sutherland (US) LLP

New York State ALJ Determines Travel Reservation Facilitation Receipts and Online Advertising Receipts Constitute Service Receipts...

There has been significant controversy in New York regarding whether receipts from services—particularly those that may be delivered via the Internet—constitute “service” receipts or “other business receipts” for corporate...more

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