Sales Tax

Cronkite News
Veronica Graff
https://cronkitenews.azpbs.org/2019/04/16/sales-tax-fairness/

Tuesday, April 16, 2019
PHOENIX – Arizona small business owners are fighting for sales tax equality with online retailers, similar to 39 other states trying to collect taxes on goods that consumers buy online. But experts said Arizona’s tax system complicates the situation.
Phoenix New Times
Stephen Lemons
https://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/news/arizona-state-university-omni-hote…

Arizona State University would like to take Sparky's trident to Attorney General Mark Brnovich's tuchis over the AG's legal objections to the university's multimillion-dollar real-estate deal with Omni Hotels.
The Arizona Republic
Mackenzie Shuman
https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/arizona/2019/04/10/arizona-s…

Netflix, ADP and GoDaddy are battling the Arizona Department of Revenue over their alleged improper taxation of digital goods.

The lawsuits come as the Arizona State Senate attempts to pass Senate Bill 1460, which would give tax-paying businesses clarity on which kinds of digital goods are taxed and which are not.
Arizona Capitol Times
Ben Giles
https://azcapitoltimes.com/news/2019/03/20/digital-goods-taxation-data-…
A lack of reliable data on the impact of a bill to forgo sales taxes on certain digital goods has again stymied legislators trying to settle the issue in state law.
The Arizona Republic
Paulina Pineda
https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/politics/legislature/2019/02/05/el…

Tempe resident Deloris Drebert stops by the grocery store several times a week to shop for her family of four. On a recent trip, she spent $35 and about 72 cents of her bill went to taxes.
The Arizona Republic
Russ Wiles
https://www.azcentral.com/story/money/business/economy/2018/09/09/arizo…
Sales taxes in Arizona are relatively high, with the average combined tax rate here ranking 11th in one national measure.

But at least the trend in recent years has been one of stability.
KJZZ
Mark Brodie
In a five to four vote, the U.S. Supreme Court Thursday ruled to allow states to collect sales tax from online and out-of-state retailers.

To look at how this ruling will impact Arizona, The Show reached out to Kevin McCarthy, president of the Arizona Tax Research Association.

https://kjzz.org/content/661404/how-us-supreme-court-ruling-online-sale…

Fox10 News AZ
Matt Galka
http://www.fox10phoenix.com/news/arizona-news/supreme-court-ruling-on-o…
PHOENIX (KSAZ) - A Supreme Court ruling is making shopping on the internet more expensive. It has to do with the way states collect taxes from internet sales.
The Arizona Capitol Times
Sean McCarthy
Did anyone else notice their bill for cloud storage went up last year because a sales tax (TPT) suddenly appeared? As an association who follows state tax law closely, we wondered what law or rule changed. It turns out nothing changed. Bureaucrats at the state simply decided to start taxing the cloud.
Phoenix Business Journal
Mike Sunnucks
https://www.bizjournals.com/phoenix/news/2018/03/11/arizona-wrestles-wi…

Arizona lawmakers are wading into some uncharted waters in deciding whether to tax digital streaming services and cloud technology and software.

Their actions could impact taxes on Microsoft office products, streaming services such as Netflix (Nasdaq; NFLX) and music services such as Spotify.