Maryland Tech Tax Survives Repeal Efforts at Bill Deadline

Attempts to repeal or carve out certain business purchases from Maryland’s 3% sales tax on data and information technology services stalled at a key legislative deadline Monday.

Lawmakers were required to pass legislation out of at least one chamber by the end of the day. The Maryland Senate narrowly defeated an attempt to repeal the tech tax in the state budget bill last week. And it declined to advance a bill (SB 600) that would have exempted business inputs from the tax—a chief complaint when the tax was enacted last year.

Supporters of rolling ...