[Hidden-tech] IT tax coming -- did you know ?

[Peter Pelland]

Yes, this tax is a pretty ill-conceived concept by knuckleheads in Boston (including the governor’s office) who are desperate to generate revenues however possible. Unfortunately, other states will probably all follow suit. Unless you are running a sole proprietorship with no employees, you should already have a business account setup with the DOR for the payment of payroll taxes as well as sales tax (which is due by the 20th of the following month). If you need to create an account, go to the following address and click on the “register” link in the upper left of the page:
https://wfb.dor.state.ma.us/webfile/business/public/webforms/login/login.aspx

My interpretation is that most (if not all) services that have previously been non-taxable will now be taxable, but only for clients who are physically located in Massachusetts. Work for clients in other states should still be considered “exempt sales” from a sales tax perspective.

Of course, those are my personal opinions and interpretations. People should contact a qualified tax accountant if they are uncertain.

Peter Pelland
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From: David Korpiewski 
Sent: Friday, July 26, 2013 11:35 AM
To: Paul Stallman 
Cc: webmaster ; hidden-discuss 
Subject: Re: [Hidden-tech] IT tax coming -- did you know ?

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Does anyone know how I can get a sales tax ID?  I've been in business 
for 12 year but haven't sold anything except my computer services so I 
haven't gotten a sales tax ID before.  If I'm supposed to start 
collecting taxes next week, I am not even set up for that.   Is this a 
simple process or something I have to get lawyer to set up? :-P

I assume non-profits are exempt from this tax still?  Most of my work is 
for non-profits.  Don't I have to get a tax exempt form from them? What 
do I do with it, send it to the state?

Damn state!

Thanks,
David





On 7/25/2013 7:12 PM, Paul Stallman wrote:
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> This Tax is so vaguely described for something I'm supposed to start
> collecting on next week.  Unlike a product that you physically sell at a
> location or ship to a state, how will it be determined who should pay
> the "services" tax.  Do I have to collect for my California clients?
>   What if I'm hosting a website but it's not hosted in MA, then do I
> still have to collect?  If a website counts what about email marketing?
>   What about SEO or doing a google Adwords campaign.  And does the
> graphic design portion of a website not get taxed but the development
> does?  And if I'm using wordpress am I really developing a website, or
> just changing settings and writing text.  Then again copywriting, is
> that taxable too because it's part of a website.
>
> Wow this is some ill conceived tax law.
>
>  From now I'm selling apparel with a free website.
>
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> On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 4:00 PM, ussailis at shaysnet.com
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>     The Boston section IEEE consultants network has been talking about
>     this for
>     a few weeks now. They figure it will impact them, also.
>
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>     Jim Ussailis
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