Many tech companies consider themselves a service provider exempt from sales and use tax. But the 2018 Wayfair decision expanded the definition of nexus and and more of these businesses are now subject to sales and use tax collection, including on one of their product staples: apps.A mobile application, or app, is a program or software application to run on a mobile device. Designed once upon a time as just a helpmate to desktop computing, they’ve expanded into almost all areas of computing. Today there are more than 7 million apps, and counting. Some are free but many aren’t.
What about the sales tax?
Source: taxconnex.com
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