Maryland Prepares Forms for Filing of Embattled Digital Ad Tax

Despite a raging legal fight over the constitutionality of Maryland’s tax on digital advertising, the state is moving forward with plans to collect the first round of payments due April 15.

The state comptroller will release its “estimated tax declaration form” by the end of the month for companies to pay the state’s first-in-the-nation digital advertising gross revenues tax. The actual tax return, for taxes due on annual gross advertising revenue attributable to Maryland, will be published in December, Debora Gorman, deputy director of the Revenue Administration Division, said in an email Wednesday.

With big tech objecting to ...