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Understanding State Tax Laws on Software as a Service (SaaS)

  • Taxability of Software as a Service (SaaS) is often misunderstood in sales tax arena
  • Basic questions to determine taxability include nexus creation and product taxability
  • Some states consider pre-written software tangible, while others exempt electronically downloaded software
  • More than 20 states impose sales tax on SaaS revenue stream, while others do not
  • Illinois does not tax SaaS revenue stream, but Chicago has its own tax on it

Source: taxconnections.com

Note that this post was (partially) written with the help of AI. It is always useful to review the original source material, and where needed to obtain (local) advice from a specialist.

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