Illinois sales and uses tax update
Form ST-1, sales and use tax and E911 surcharge return
Effective January 1, 2025, retailers previously obligated to collect and remit Illinois Use Tax (UT) on retail sales sourced outside of Illinois and made to Illinois customers are now subject to destination-based retailers’ occupation tax (ROT). This change affects retailers with any kind of physical presence in Illinois who make sales that are sourced outside of this State1 to Illinois customers. (See 35 ILCS 120/1, 120/2, 120/2-12, and Public Act 103-983.)
For more information, please refer to Help in OneSource.
Retailers’ allowance for certain transaction returns capped at $1,000 per month
For sales and use tax and other related returns due on or after January 1, 2025, the retailers’ discount amount is limited to $1,000 per month. See Public Act 103-592.
Illinois sales and use tax applies to leased or rented tangible personal property
Effective January 1, 2025, if you lease or rent tangible personal property in the ordinary course of your business, you're considered a retailer subject to Illinois’ Sales and Use Tax laws, and you must register with the Illinois Department of Revenue (IDOR) and pay tax on your lease or rental receipts. See P.A. 103-592.
The Personal Property Lease Transaction Tax (Form 7550) applies to businesses or individuals that either are a lessor or lessee of personal property used in Chicago
Effective January 1, 2025, 11% of receipts or charges for all leases, including the non-possessory lease of a computer to input, modify, or retrieve data supplied by the customer.
Leases: HB 4951 extends sales and use tax to the retail lease of tangible personal property
(other than motor vehicles, watercraft, aircraft and semitrailers),
effective for leases in effect, entered into, or renewed on or after January 1, 2025.
An exemption applies for (1) a lessee's use of software that was transferred under a license that meets certain requirements and (2) those licenses subject to tax by a home-rule jurisdiction (licenses taxed under the
Personal Property Lease Transaction Tax in Chicago will be exempt
).
Revenue from lease transactions is sourced as follows: (1) for leases requiring recurring periodic payments for property delivered to the lessee, each periodic payment is sourced to the primary property location for each period covered by the payment, and (2) for all other leases, the payment is sourced as provided for sales at retail, other than leases. Such leases are also subject to applicable local sales and use taxes.
Kansas
In accordance with 2022 House Bill 2106, starting January 1, 2023, the state sales and use tax rate on food and food ingredients, and certain prepared food, will be reduced from 6.500% to 4.000%. Starting on January 1, 2024, the state sales tax rate will be reduced to 2.000% and starting on January 1, 2025, the state sales tax rate will be reduced to 0.000%.
Louisiana 2024 third extraordinary session of the LA legislature
A special session was held by the Louisiana Legislature that requires all parishes to report both prescription drugs and manufacturing machinery and equipment on a separate line item of their return. Additionally, the vendor’s compensation discount has been repealed for all parishes. These changes will be reflected in the subsequent releases of ONESOURCE Sales and Use Tax as the individual parishes make their updated tax returns reflecting the above changes available.
Maine sales taxation of rentals of tangible personal property update
Beginning January 1, 2025, the imposition of Maine sales tax on tangible personal property, including products transferred electronically, leased or rented in Maine will shift to impose the sales tax on each periodic lease or rental payment paid by the lessee. For leases in effect, entered into, or renewed on or after January 1, 2025, lessors are required to charge and collect Maine sales tax from the lessee on each lease or rental payment. Lessors need to report these types of transactions on Line 1 Gross Sales of ST-7 which subject to the general 5.500% Maine sales tax rate.
These transactions are reported as
Rental
tax type in ONESOURCE. You have the option of cross-referencing your internal tax type code to the rental tax type using a Tax Type chart or passing the following tax type code in your balance import file for these transactions:
Maine service provider tax update
Beginning January 1, 2025, service provider tax will no longer be imposed on sales of private nonmedical institution services; community support services for persons with mental health diagnoses; community support services for persons with intellectual disabilities or autism; home support services; and group residential services for persons with brain injuries. These types of services are no longer subject to the 6% Service Provider Tax, they don't need to report on lines 9-13 of SPT-1.
Utah TC-62M South Jordan HTRZ (18-704)
Due to the late content delivery from the state, South Jordan HTRZ (18-704) will be included in the 25.02.1 release. This is a new project area.