BATON ROUGE – A state sales tax holiday to provide relief for Louisiana residents recovering from hurricanes Laura and Delta, in addition to the COVID-19 public health emergency, will take place Friday, Nov. 20 and Saturday, Nov. 21. Act 16 of the 2020 Second Extraordinary Session of the Louisiana Legislature exempts the first $2,500 of most…
IA – For Iowa sales and use tax purposes, a yoga franchisee’s (taxpayer’s) classes were not subject to sales and use tax as the instruction charges qualified for the statutory exemption. In this matter, the taxpayer offered yoga classes to customers and petitioned for a declaratory order clarifying whether its services of yoga classes to…
Missouri: A corporation was not liable for the Missouri sales and use tax on fees paid by its customers for the taxpayer’s guided fly fishing trips as the taxpayer was neither a place of amusement nor did it control the place of amusement. In this matter, the taxpayer admitted that it did not offer classes,…
Texas discusses the sales and use tax treatment of Electronic Cigarettes and Cigarettes. It clarifies that cigarette tax is only due on cigarettes made of tobacco or tobacco mixed with another ingredient and E-cigarettes do not fall within this definition because they do not contain tobacco. However, E-cigarettes are subject to sales and use tax….
Georgia: In a letter ruling, the Georgia Department of Revenue (department) discussed sales and use tax treatment of a retail seller’s sale of hemp extract dietary supplements. The taxpayer explained that it was rolling out five new dietary supplement products containing hemp extracts. The taxpayer sold those products through distributors, who paid a fee when…
D.C. Attorney General Karl A. Racine has filed a lawsuit against the grocery delivery service Instacart, alleging it has failed to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars in D.C. sales tax and deceived local consumers into believing extra service fees were actually tips for workers. Instacart, which operates nationwide and relies on gig economy workers,…
We were celebrating 20 years of success. Follow us as we take a trip down DDH Memory Lane and review some highlights! 2017 marked a milestone year at Davis Davis & Harmon LLC – Sales Tax Expert. Our firm and leadership team accomplished so much! Top 3 Business Highlights of 2017 DFWMSDC names Davis and…
Illinois—Sales and Use Tax: Rates of Reimbursement for Physician Services Increased; Provisions Relating to Annual Assessments on Hospitals Changed An amendment to Illinois sales and use tax legislation discusses that (1) the Department of Public Health (department) is increasing rates of reimbursement for physician services to as close to 60% of Medicare rates in effect…
Rates are constantly changing, and business owners should check their state comptrollers’ offices to update their rates. Key Findings are: Forty-five states and the District of Columbia collect statewide sales taxes. Local sales taxes are collected in 38 states. In some cases, they can rival or even exceed state rates. The five states with the highest…
Colorado – The restoration of a 2% county lodging tax rate for certain Colorado counties has been adopted. County Lodging Tax Rate of 2% A county’s lodging tax rate will be restored to 2% if: the county had imposed a 2% county lodging tax by resolution and it remained in effect on July 1, 2020;…
