Upcoming National Meeting 2025 Spring Conference / Audit Session This Spring Conference/Audit Session will bring multistate tax professionals, with various levels of experience in state and local income/franchise taxes and sales/use taxes together in an environment that allows for extensive interaction and exchange of information as well as updates on key SALT issues and insights regarding state tax trends and opportunities. The program is targeted to all level
Legislative Alert ISSUE 25-19; April 22, 2025 COST Opposes California Legislation Removing the Tax Bar in the State’s False Claims Act; COST Opposes Washington’s Expansion of Sales Tax to Business Services
Cost Conscious ISSUE 25-08; April 25, 2025 Spring Conference Topics of Interest: Which one of the following sessions offered at the 2025 COST Spring Meeting and Audit Conference are you most excited for? (choose one)
COST - Council on State Taxation Amicus Briefs Amazon Services LLC v. Department of Revenue On November 19 COST filed a motion for leave to file an amicus brief at the South Carolina Supreme Court in support of Amazon Services LLC. Amazon Services LLC v. Department of Revenue. The Court of Appeals held that the Amazon. Services was in the business of selling tangible personal property and thus responsible for collecting and remitting sales tax on third-party sales made from the Amazon m
COST - Council on State Taxation COST Comments & Testimony Letter to Governor Requesting Veto of S.B. 5814 – Taxation of Business Inputs COST sent a letter to Governor Ferguson of Washington urging his veto of Senate Bill 5814, which would extend the Retail Sales Tax to select services that are mostly, if not exclusively, purchased by businesses.