[Hidden-tech] IT Sales tax on writing a website vs writing a program?

[Kelly Albrecht]

This is obviously a beta-release. We just need to make sure we file all of
our bug reports promptly. Perhaps, we have a shot at something more
sensible in the next iteration.

However, while it can work fine for software development, I do hope
releasing new laws this way doesn't catch on.

kelly


On Fri, Aug 16, 2013 at 8:48 PM, Don Lesser <dlesser at ptraining.com> wrote:

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>
> The problem is that depending on your reading of the law, are you
> "customizing commercial software" or writing "custom software?" The first
> is taxable, the second not. The problem is that unless you write in machine
> code (and even then) are you using a software tool (C#, PHP, "raw" HTML) or
> customizing a program (MS SQL, PeopleSoft, MS Access, Excel VBA,
> WordPress)? We all know what we want to be the interpretation. Is
> customizing adding additional code to the actual application or is it using
> the GUI or query/programming language? They have yet to rule on it.
>
> Please understand, I am no apologist for the law. I am only trying to
> interpret it. The real issue is whether the law is discriminatory, whether
> it will negatively affect a vital Mass industry, whether it was so poorly
> understood by the legislature that in thinking they were going to be less
> restrictive than the governor that they did not understand what the law
> would cover, and, whether in rushing to implement the law in 9 days, they
> missed the opportunity to have the IT community weigh in and ask these
> questions before the law went into effect instead of after.
>
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> > From: "Bobbi Melville" <bobbimelville at gmail.com>
> > Sent: Friday, August 16, 2013 8:18 PM
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> > Subject: [Hidden-tech] IT Sales tax on writing a website vs writing a
> program?
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> >
> > Thanks, Don, for posting the official "clarification" of the new tax.
> I'm
> > still confused, though. If I write a custom website for an organization,
> > using html, css, and perhaps a javascript or two - is that taxable?
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