Lege Trend: Taxing the Cloud

In 2013 Massachusettes taxed the cloud, as in cloud data storage, not mother nature. Two months later Massachusettes repealed the “tech tax.”

How to tax cloud based and technology based services? In 2012 Texas Comptroller defined cloud computing as data processing services for tax purposes. 

Tech companies dislike the murky, state taxation rule adjustments as much as they dislike new state laws, which leaves tech taxation and cloud taxation up to future legislatures to solve.

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