‘Axe the Food Tax’ campaign approved by Governor The US state of Kansas is to phase out sales tax on food and food ingredients, covering “substances, whether in liquid, concentrated, solid, frozen, dried or dehydrated form, that are sold for ingestion or chewing by humans and
The US’ Business Payments Coalition has launched a federal B2B electronic invoicing exchange pilot in the second half of 2022. The aim is to launch a full public scheme in 2023 for voluntary adoption. Over 75 international businesses have now joined the pilot as at
Digital and traditional services brought into sales tax net to fund income tax cuts The Kentucky general assembly has put aside a Governor attempt to stop an widening of the sales tax net which in turn is to be used to finance an income tax
Digital services and advertising services subject to 6% sales tax The US state of Maryland confirmed the 6% sales tax levy on a range of digital services, including: Streaming films and music, ring tones, e-books and audio books, online newspapers and cable, satellite and pay-per-view
A bill has been presented at the Alaskan House of Representatives to impose state-level sales tax for the first time. The draft rate is 2%, way below the average rate in other state of about 7%. Forty-five states and the District of Columbia collect state-wide sales
Sharing economy targeted for additional taxes The US state of New York is imposing a 2% tax on platforms facilitating peer-to-peer ride sharing. The tax will be levied on the gross fee for the ride share. This will become effective from 22 March 2022. Platforms
January 2022 – only $100,000 sales threshold test remote sellers or marketplaces The US state of Maine is to withdraw the 200 transactions threshold for the obligation by out-of-state (non-resident) sellers and facilitating marketplaces. This means the threshold will now only be the $100,000 annual
States disharmonies on sales tax for digital goods and services There is no federal-level Sales Tax in the United States. 45 (and District of Columbia) of the 50 US states impose a local Sales Tax, and then there is approximately 13,000 further local cities, counties
Missouri is to become the last of the sales taxing states to impose collections obligations on remote or foreign sellers. This will come into effect from 1 January 2023. South Dakota vs Wayfair economic nexus sales tax trigger 45 states plus Washington DC operate a
The US state of West Virginia has confirmed that streaming media services are liable to sales and use tax. However, other digital services remain exempted from the taxes. There is ambiguity on US sales tax on digital services which are sometimes overlooked in states. Around
