TaxConnex

MAY 6, 2021

In the trendiest sales tax news (aside, of course, from Florida finally passing economic nexus legislation), Connecticut lawmakers have proposed a digital advertising services tax similar, experts say, to one recently enacted in Maryland. Observers say the Maryland refinements are expected to become law without the governor’s signature.

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CPA Practice

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

The fee would apply once per transaction even if the items are delivered in multiple shipments, so long as the purchase contains one item of tangible personal property subject to Maryland sales tax.

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TaxConnex

MARCH 10, 2022

Maryland has greenlighted the nation’s first tax on digital advertisements ; the gross receipts tax on digital ads ranges from 2.5% to 10% on advertising businesses with global revenues exceeding $100 million, so long as they have at least $1 million in advertising revenue within Maryland for the calendar year.

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CPA Practice

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

A day after announcing it had acquired Signature Analytics , a San Diego-based outsourced accounting and advisory firm, top 20 accounting firm Citrin Cooperman has gobbled up another firm, this time Owings Mills, MD-based Clearview Group. Financial terms of the deal, which is expected to close this month, weren’t disclosed.

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TaxConnex

JANUARY 11, 2022

Stating the shipping cost separately on the invoice affects its taxability in Alabama, Arizona, Illinois, Iowa, Maryland, Oklahoma, Utah, Virginia and Wyoming. In Maryland, the shipping charge becomes taxable when it’s combined with handling. Taxability can also depend on how the bill/invoice is presented.

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TaxConnex

APRIL 9, 2024

The products incur sales tax in most states (Massachusetts casts an especially wide net) but are more or less exempt in Connecticut, Florida, Maryland, Michigan, New Jersey, New York, Texas, West Virginia and Wyoming.

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Withum

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

A recent alert from Maryland-based cybersecurity firm Huntress highlights a concerning vulnerability for construction companies using on-premise accounting and project management software with default login credentials.

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Accounting Today

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

The state of Maryland has become the latest to sign up for the IRS Direct File program for filing season 2025, offering residents a free way to file their taxes.

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CPA Practice

AUGUST 27, 2024

Top 30 accounting firm Sikich on Tuesday said it’s acquiring Saggar & Rosenberg, a full-service CPA firm based in Rockville, MD. Financial terms of the deal weren’t disclosed.

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TaxConnex

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Maryland socks you with a late-filing penalty of 10% and interest at a rate of not less than 1% per month. Those “legal processes” that Maryland mentioned can be punishing. Annapolis goes further by threatening a lien against you or your business if you refuse or fail to follow through on arrangements of payments. Avoid problems.

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TaxConnex

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

The products are tax-exempt (more or less) in the District of Columbia, Florida, Maryland, Michigan, New Jersey, New York, Texas, Vermont, West Virginia and Wyoming. Here’s a rundown of what some other states do (this changes frequently – check with an individual state if you have questions and want the latest regulations).

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TaxConnex

DECEMBER 10, 2020

Maryland lawmakers might soon revive a proposal to expand the state’s sales tax to sales of digital products, both downloads and streaming. The state – one of only two with a sales tax that don’t require remote sellers to collect and remit those taxes – is looking at a $2.7 billion budget shortfall.

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TaxConnex

JULY 15, 2021

Maryland is offering a vendor credit of up to $3,000 on sales tax returns for the months of March, April and May 2021. The Maryland Comptroller has issued a revised version of Business Tax Tip #29 , which clarifies the Comptroller’s interpretation of its sales and use tax on “digital products,” including software.

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TaxConnex

AUGUST 5, 2021

announced last year that it would start collecting local utility and communications taxes in California, New York, Maryland, and Virginia. Zoom Video Communications Inc. The specific taxes and their rates vary depending on the state and locality in which the user is located.

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CPA Practice

OCTOBER 17, 2024

in finance and accounting from the University of Maryland Robert H. Prior to Extend, Mike held various finance and accounting roles at IAS, BSE Global, MLB Advanced Media, and Deloitte. He earned an MBA from NYU Stern School of Business, a B.S. Smith School of Business, and holds his CPA license.

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CPA Practice

MAY 24, 2024

Twenty emerging accounting and finance leaders learned the skills they’ll need to take their teams, their careers, and their profession to the next level during the Maryland Association of CPAs’ 2024 Leadership Academy. Spending time with these 20 emerging leaders gave me great pride in Maryland CPAs and great hope for our future.”

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Accounting Today

JUNE 14, 2022

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CPA Practice

MAY 2, 2024

The Maryland-based accounting firm Simon, Krowitz, Meadows & Bortnick, P.A. In combining with SKMB, Marcum reinforces its commitment to client-focused services and gains the regional insights of a firm with a 75-year legacy in Maryland. SKMB”) has joined Marcum LLP, effective May 1, 2024. The terms of the deal remain confidential.

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TaxConnex

MARCH 1, 2022

In recent years, Connecticut, Maryland, and California toyed with levying state sales tax on accounting services but found it a tough fight in the face of intense lobbying from accountants’ groups. Several states levy their sales tax or its equivalent on services, among them Hawaii (which has a general excise tax, or GET), and New Mexico.

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CPA Practice

DECEMBER 9, 2024

Department of Labor and the Maryland Department of Labor. Jason Perkins-Cohen, Deputy Secretary of the Maryland Department of Labor, delivered an inspiring keynote address about the opportunities that apprenticeships provide, while Jeffrey Smith of the U.S.

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TaxConnex

MAY 10, 2022

Maryland held that a for-profit company’s purchases for non-profit hospitals were subject to the state’s sales and use tax because there was no agency relationship between the company and the hospitals and, even if an agency relationship existed, that alone would not entitle the for-profit company to an exemption.

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TaxConnex

JANUARY 3, 2023

Digital products can also create complex sale tax situations, though recently Maryland suffered a setback in court regarding its proposed taxing of digital ad sales. Note that services may also increasingly create economic nexus in a growing number of states (Colorado might be next). Economic nexus is in addition to physical presence rules.

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TaxConnex

JANUARY 19, 2023

Rules allow states to demand payment under certain circumstances against any responsible person (which means possibly other leaders in your company – see the Maryland statutes, for instance). You’re not the only one potentially on the hook.

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TaxConnex

AUGUST 30, 2022

Maryland (a state famous for spearheading efforts to levy sales tax on digital advertising ) also recently broadened its sales and use tax definition to include apps. Apps are specifically mentioned in the sales tax regs of D.C., Pennsylvania and the state of Washington (check thoroughly in the case of the latter), among many others.

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TaxConnex

MARCH 3, 2022

States also continue to debate taxing digital advertising services, especially in the wake of Maryland enacting the nation’s first digital advertising tax. Many states have recently mentioned taxing services; it cropped up notably in West Virginia’s 2021 State of the State address.

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TaxConnex

JANUARY 16, 2024

This includes whether you’re selling to a business or a consumer (as in Iowa, Maryland and Ohio), unique state sales tax rates (Connecticut), home-rule jurisdictions (Colorado and Illinois), partial exemptions (Texas), to name a few. SaaS incurs sales tax in roughly half the states. Many nuances affect sales tax and SaaS in various states.

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TaxConnex

JULY 8, 2021

Other states like Maryland, Missouri, Texas, and Virginia have holidays for energy-efficient devices. Many states grant a holiday for going back to school and exempt sales tax on such items as clothes, footwear, computers, calculators, school supplies, books, and backpacks.

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TaxConnex

JULY 25, 2023

Other states also impose a gross receipts tax specifically on telecommunications services: Pennsylvania has a 5-percent gross receipts tax, for instance; Maryland is 2-percent and New York is 2.5-percent. These are annual corporate-type taxes, many times requiring an estimated payment like a corporate income tax.

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Accounting Today

OCTOBER 25, 2022

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TaxConnex

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Pennsylvania , Maryland and New York impose a gross receipts tax specifically on communications services: These are annual corporate-type taxes, often requiring an estimated payment like a corporate income tax.

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CPA Practice

APRIL 9, 2024

with Maryland and Virginia) West Virginia (with Kentucky, Maryland, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Virginia) Wisconsin (with Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, and Michigan) Paying payroll taxes can be a daunting task for business owners, but with expert advice and guidance from their CPAs, it becomes more manageable.

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TaxConnex

JUNE 8, 2021

Digital services is a hot new area in which to require collection and remittance of sales tax – especially after Maryland broke the ground of taxing digital advertising earlier this year. States don’t seem to be sitting back on their unexpected riches: Online sales are clearly too rich a lode to ignore.

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CPA Practice

JULY 28, 2023

This has been playing out in Maryland over the last few years as the state has become a national litmus test for the legality of taxing companies based on their digital advertising revenue. Controversial From the Start In 2021, Maryland enacted the Digital Advertising Gross Revenues Tax (DAGRT) [1]. The tax levies a rate of 2.5%

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TaxConnex

OCTOBER 8, 2020

Texas and Maryland. A measure using IP addresses to track the location of sales does appear to have been upheld from a recent digital-advertising bill in the Maryland Senate. As global governments begin to increasingly view digital services as taxable, American states are starting to jump on the band wagon.

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CPA Practice

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

CohnReznick’s McCafferty selected to MACPA’s 2024 Women to Watch CohnReznick LLP, one of the leading advisory, assurance, and tax firms in the United States, announced that Molly McCafferty, Partner, Assurance, has been selected as one of four 2024 Women to Watch by the Maryland Association of CPA’s (MACPA) Foundation.

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TaxConnex

AUGUST 19, 2021

Missouri, the final holdout state, followed suit a few months later when Gov. Mike Parson signed SB153 (combined with SB97) into law, though their law does not go into effect until 2023. has a domestically groundbreaking new tax on?digital digital advertising?and state’s existing sales and use tax to the sale of?such?digital digital goods?as

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TaxConnex

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Excise taxes vary widely from state to state, but in recent years states collecting the highest per-capita excise taxes include Vermont, Nevada, Hawaii, Minnesota, and Maryland. Latest estimates are that at the federal level the U.S. collects about 4% of its revenue from excise taxes.

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