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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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Does the Sales Tax Nexus “Physical Presence” Standard Exist?

Dillon Tax Consulting
2/22/2017

U.S. Supreme Court Declines to Review Florida Sales Tax Imposed on Out of State Inventory Delivered to Out of State Customers

In yet another blow for taxpayers, the U.S. Supreme Court has denied a taxpayer's request to review the Florida Supreme Court's decision upholding Florida sales and use tax on Internet ...

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Try, Try Again ... Illinois Imposes a New and “Improved?” Affiliate Nexus Law

Dillon Tax Consulting
2/10/2015

Effective January 1, 2015, out-of-state retailers are once again presumed to have sales tax nexus in Illinois if they satisfy the following criteria:

  • the out-of-state retailer has a contract with a person in Illinois;
  • under the contract, the person in Illinois refers potential customers to the retailer and the retailer pays to the person in ...
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