Multistate Digital Products Tax Project Takes New Approach

A multistate effort aimed at uniformity in the tax treatment of digital goods will likely be broken into smaller research and drafting teams to move the project forward and ensure a more valuable final product, the project’s chairman said.

Pointing to the breadth of the Multistate Tax Commission’s project addressing the taxation of digital products, work group Chairman Gil Brewer suggested reorganizing into issue-focused groups.

“Given the number and the complexity of the issues remaining here, and the fact that it would be nice ...