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6 May 2008, 7:00 am
The first post outlined the facts, and this post covers the tax collection issues applicable to Noorani, the corporation that was originally audited and assessed by the Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts for unpaid sales taxes.Noorani asserted on appeal that the evidence was legally and factually insufficient to support the tax assessment against it. [read post]
23 Sep 2010, 5:00 am by Alan E. Sherman
Audits of 2008 and 2009 reports filed under the revised franchise tax, the so-called “Margin Tax,” have been “in full swing” for awhile according to the July 2010 issue of the Tax Policy News, the electronic tax policy newsletter of the Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts (it’s available on the agency’s web site, the Window on State Government). [read post]
18 Apr 2012, 11:00 am by Alan E. Sherman
A recent administrative proceeding involving a Texas sales tax assessment on an aircraft transaction resulted in a good-news-bad-news decision by the Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts. [read post]
25 Jun 2008, 1:00 pm
The Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts has just posted the June 2008 issue of the Tax Policy News, the Comptroller’s monthly electronic tax policy newsletter, on the agency’s web site, the Window on State Government. [read post]
16 Jun 2008, 1:00 pm
The Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts recently reaffirmed the agency’s policy that taxable data processing services include situations where the customer enters the data into application software located on a third party service provider’s server. [read post]
22 Oct 2010, 2:53 pm by Alan E. Sherman
The Dallas Morning News is reporting in a copyrighted story on its web site that the Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts has assessed Amazon.com $269 million in uncollected Texas sales taxes. [read post]
2 Jan 2008, 6:00 am
A recent taxability memorandum issued by the Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts concluded that “…computer and network related services to ascertain [a taxpayer’s] vulnerability to Internet hackers and others…” is a taxable security service. [read post]
11 Oct 2007, 7:00 am
The Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts’ September 17th press release announcing the proposed rules to implement the revised franchise tax or “Margin Tax” also briefly referred to the threshold revenue and tax amounts that taxable entities must exceed before they will have to pay the revised tax. [read post]
9 Mar 2011, 4:00 am by Alan E. Sherman
As mentioned in a previous post on this site captioned “Amazon.com apparently has been assessed $269 million in uncollected Texas sales taxes,” last fall the Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts made a $269 million sales and use tax assessment against Amazon.com, Inc. [read post]
5 Sep 2012, 5:00 am by Alan E. Sherman
A recent letter ruling from the Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts contains the surprising conclusion that providing “instant” (or “streamed”) videos to Texas customers over the Internet constitutes a taxable cable television service. [read post]
4 Jan 2010, 4:00 am by Alan E. Sherman
A few developments expected from the Comptroller of Public Accounts, the state Courts and the Legislature are summarized below. [read post]
18 Sep 2006, 7:38 pm
Food sellers in Texas should review the new sales tax rule adopted by the Comptroller of Public Accounts that took effect today. [read post]
18 Sep 2006, 7:38 pm
Food sellers in Texas should review the new sales tax rule adopted by the Comptroller of Public Accounts that took effect today. [read post]
6 Jan 2009, 4:00 am
The November 2008 issue of the Tax Policy News, the Comptroller of Public Accounts’ online tax policy newsletter, contained a brief article about buying high-priced items overseas. [read post]
21 Jun 2011, 5:00 am by Alan E. Sherman
Last Friday, the May 2011 Comptroller of Public Accounts Case List and Summary of Issues (updated through June 14, 2011) appeared on the Texas Attorney General’s web site. [read post]
3 Jun 2008, 7:00 am
The Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts recently posted the May 2008 issue of the Tax Policy News, the Comptroller’s monthly electronic tax policy newsletter, on the agency’s web site, the Window on State Government. [read post]
30 Jan 2016, 7:45 am by David Snyder
The Texas Legislature has directed the Texas comptroller of public accounts to assemble an online database of entities claiming eminent domain powers in Texas. [read post]
4 Jun 2013, 2:26 pm by Amanda Traphagan
Second, in response to comments from the State Tax Committee of the Texas Society of Certified Public Accountants and the Section of Taxation of the State Bar of Texas, the Texas Comptroller revised the definition of “labor costs” for cost of goods sold purposes to be slightly broader in scope. [read post]
11 Aug 2011, 9:00 am by Alan E. Sherman
This past July 15th, a representative of the Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts’ Tax Policy Division issued a letter ruling, indexed as STAR Accession No. 201107164L, declaring that an item qualifying as a “drug” or “medicine” purchased by a Texas customer over the telephone from an Arizona pharmacy is exempt from Texas sales and use tax when prescribed by a veterinarian for the customer’s animals, such as… [read post]
18 Jan 2008, 4:00 pm
The Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts has just posted a notice on the revised franchise tax page of the agency’s web site stating that the initial franchise tax reports of newly taxable corporations and limited liability companies otherwise due between January 1st and April 30th of 2008 will be due instead on May 1st in order to accommodate changes to the Comptroller’s data processing system required by the revised… [read post]