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Sales Tax Update – March 2024

Michael T Dillon, Dillon Tax Consulting LLC
3/21/2024

On March 11, 2024, Delegate David Moon (D) introduced H.B. 1515 to the House Ways and Means Committee of the Maryland General Assembly, through which he proposed to broadly expand the sales tax base to cover many services, while reducing the sales tax rate from 6% to 5%.  Delegate Moon proposed that expanding the sales and use tax to include services could result in a total revenue increase of approximately $1.4 billion in fiscal 2025 and $4.2 billion in fiscal 2029. This would significantly offset any rate reduction, resulting is significant increases to the State’s General ...

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Gross Receipts Tax

Sales Tax Audits

Dillon Tax Consulting
10/16/2023

ARE YOU READY?

It’s no secret that states are running the most significant budget shortfalls in the Post-WWII era. As a remedy, they can either raise tax rates, increase the base, add more taxes, or heighten enforcement. Clearly the most pragmatic thing, and least politically problematic thing to do is heighten enforcement. And the ...

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Amazon Affiliate Nexus

Dillon Tax Consulting
10/16/2013

IS YOUR STATE NEXT?

I was recently approached regarding a nexus question by a company that was physically located in one state. The company was considering entering into a contractual arrangement with a third-party marketing company located in numerous states. The marketing company proposed to market and promote the company through links on the marketing ...

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Sales Tax

Dillon Tax Consulting
10/16/2013

YOU DON’T KNOW THAT YOU DON’T KNOW

When I am referred in to a new client, the client and I go through a set of diagnostic questions designed to help us evaluate the company’s taxable presence, current sales tax compliance, and historical sales tax exposure. Often times, as I begin asking the ...

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State Tax Amnesties Provide a Limited Time Offer

Dillon Tax Consulting
10/16/2013

CLEANING UP THE PAST

The City of Los Angeles, Connecticut, Louisiana and Vermont currently have amnesty programs open to past taxpayer sales and/or use tax liabilities. These programs are typically only open for 8 to 10 weeks (LA, Louisiana and Connecticut’s essentially end in November 2013, and Vermont’s ends by May 1 ...

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