Multistate Tax Group Downplays Fear of Big Digital Tax Hikes

The leader of a multistate effort aimed at uniformity in the tax treatment of digital goods and services sought to assuage business sector worries that the group is essentially engineering a massive tax increase.

Gil Brewer, chair of the Multistate Tax Commission’s work group on sales tax on digital products, joked Thursday that tax attorneys representing tech companies have accused him of convening a process “promoting the largest tax increase in history.” But he assured more than 70 tax administrators and representatives of taxpayer groups attending a virtual work group meeting that “we aren’t doing this to try to convince ...