Latest Sales Tax News

Arkansas Sales Tax Situs of the sale items shipped into Arkansas The Arkansas Department of Finance and Administration Office of Hearings and Appeals upheld a use tax assessment against a taxpayer for transactions involving complimentary meals. The taxpayer contended that Arkansas sales tax applied to the transactions, placing the burden…

California Sales Tax collection from out-of-state customers on California exempt transactions The California Office of Tax Appeals has ruled that a weight loss and nutritional products retailer must remit tax collected from out-of-state customers on California exempt or nontaxable transactions. The retailer accepts customer orders through its California call center…

New Mexico Gross receipts sales tax on hospitals The New Mexico Taxation and Revenue Department has issued a publication that explains gross receipts tax and governmental gross receipts tax changes for hospitals arising out of statutory changes enacted during the 2019 legislative session and effective July 1, 2019. The publication…

Vehicle service contracts were Washington wholesale sales The Washington Court of Appeals reversed the decision of the Washington Superior Court granting summary judgment to the Department of Revenue and remanded the matter for the superior court to grant summary judgment in favor of the taxpayer. The taxpayer, a seller of vehicle…

Maryland Sales Tax Attorney Baltimore Maryland's outdoor advertising excise tax The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to review a Maryland Court of Appeals case that ruled the City of Baltimore's outdoor advertising excise tax is constitutional. The taxpayer owns and operates hundreds of billboards subject to the tax. Under the ordinance, the…

Kansas Sales Tax Equipment rental charges includable in gross receipts The Kansas Court of Appeals determined that rental charges and tax on such rental charges the taxpayer paid are includable in its gross receipts. Any cost of doing business that is recovered from a customer must be part of the…

Colorado Sales Tax Credit card surcharges The Colorado Department of Revenue has issued guidance on whether the purchase price for sales tax purposes includes surcharges on credit transactions and, thus, whether such surcharges are subject to sales tax. Under Colorado law, sales tax is imposed on retail sales of tangible…

Washington Digital photos subject to retail sales tax The Administrative Review and Hearings Division (ARHD) determined that the taxpayer's sales of digital photographs are subject to retail sales tax. The taxpayer, a portrait photography business, protested the Department of Revenue's assessment of retail sales tax on its sales of digital photographs on…

 Washington Sales Tax on Fees collected from a personal training business subject to tax The Administrative Review and Hearings Division (ARHD) determined that charges by the taxpayer, an operator of a gym, to a personal training business for the use of the gym to host fitness classes are properly subject to retail…

New York Sales Tax Ruling on usage agreement reversed The Tax Appeals Tribunal has reversed an a administrative law judge's (ALJ's) ruling that the taxpayer's usage agreement sales were not subject to sales tax. The taxpayer manufactures dermatological disorder treatment products, including a laser used by physicians to treat psoriasis and…