Release notes for 25.02.01
Form revisions
If a multiple location version of a return listed here exists in ONESOURCE Sales and Use Tax Compliance, the revisions have been applied to that return as well.
- Alabama Local, Jefferson County Consumer Use Tax Return
- Alabama Local, Jefferson County Sales Tax Return
- Alabama Local, Jefferson County Sellers Use Tax Return
- Louisiana, R-1029, Sales Tax Return
- Louisiana, R-1029E, Sales Tax Return for Electronic Filing Only
- Louisiana Local, East Feliciana Parish, Sales and Use Tax Report
- Louisiana Local, Jefferson Parish, Sales and Use Tax Report
- Louisiana Local, Lafayette Parish, Sales and Use Tax Report
- Louisiana Local, Lincoln Parish, Sales and Use Tax Report
- Louisiana Local, St. John the Baptist Parish, Sales and Use Tax Report
- Louisiana Local, Union Parish, Sales and Use Tax Report
- Michigan 5081, Sales, Use and Withholding Taxes Annual Return
- Missouri Local, City of Branson, Tourism Tax Return
- New York, ST-101, New York State and Local Annual Sales and Use Tax Return
- New York, ST-100, New York State and Local Quarterly Sales and Use Tax Return
- New York, ST-810, New York State and Local Sales and Use Tax Return for Part-Quarterly Filers
- Tennessee, SLS-450, Sales and Use Tax Return
- Vermont, B-2 Notice of Change
- Virginia Local, Gloucester County Monthly Remittance of Prepared Food and Beverage Tax
- Virginia Local, Halifax County Meals Tax Form
- # South Carolina Local, Cherokee County Hospitality Tax Reporting and Computation Form
note
- *Indicates print preview return name change
- #Indicates new return
Next release
ONESOURCE Sales and Use Tax Compliance Version 25.03.1 is scheduled for release on March 28, 2025.
State notes
All the following changes were incorporated into the returns and accompanying schedules for that state or locale. Listed changes are effective February 1, 2025, unless noted otherwise.
Alabama Locals
- Chilton County changed administration from Avenu/RDS to ADOR.
- Jefferson County updated the local self-administered forms for Sales, Sellers Use and Consumer Use Returns to make them 2 pages instead of 1 page per form. Page 2 is now available for all 3 forms, and has details for deductions.
- Jefferson County released a further updated form for their Consumer Use Return that will include a separate line for food/grocery tax; however our deadline for development had already passed when they published this change. The Jefferson County Consumer Use Return will be adjusted in our next release to have a separate line for food/grocery taxes.
Louisiana 2024 Third Extraordinary Sessions 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 subsequent releases of ONESOURCE Sales and Use Tax as the individual parishes make their updated tax returns reflecting the previous changes available.
Tax rate changes
All tax rate changes noted here were incorporated into the application. Listed changes are effective February 1, 2025, unless noted otherwise.
Alaska locals
The city of Napaskiak imposed a remote seller tax rate of 3.000%.
Iowa
The cities of Stanley and Sumner in Fayette County imposed a 1.000% Local Option Sales Tax (LOST).
Tennessee
- Davidson County imposed a 0.5% surcharge on the local option sales tax, which increased the sales and use tax rate from 2.250% to 2.750%.
- Giles County increased the sales and use tax rate from 2.500% to 2.750%.
- Hendersonville has enacted a local sales tax rate reduction on the retail sale of food and food ingredients. The new reduced local sales tax rate for food and food ingredients sold in the City of Hendersonville is 2.250%.
Minnesota locals
Lanesboro - Effective January 1, 2025, the City of Lanesboro sale and use tax rate reduced from 0.500% to 0.000%.
Application updates
Key release highlights
- Business challenge:A detailed ledger is used quite frequently by the customers, but there is no unique identifier that refers to exactly 1 record in that ledger.
- Solution:OSU enables the customers to identify each ledger record using ‘Ledger Id’.
- Product updates:A new field ‘Ledger Id’ is added to the grid of the detailed ledger, to the immediate left of the ‘Journal Id’ field.
- Business challenge:Batch processes are getting stuck when there are duplicate entities in the batch template.
- Solution:OSU completes the batch processes even if there are duplicate entities in the selected batch.
- Product updates:OSU batch processing is enhanced to ensure that the batch processes will be completed without getting stuck, even if there are duplicate entities.
- UI enhancementsTheTemplate Maintenancetools screen now features a navigation menu on the left, with the active menu highlighted in amber.Key benefits:The navigation of theTemplate Maintenancemenu will be the same as how it is for Content Tools, maximizing the consistency in the customer experience.
Ledger updates
- A new field ‘Ledger Id’ is added to the Detailed Ledger at binder-level.
- Key Benefits: This new field on that ledger will serve as a unique identifier for each record of that ledger.
Processes View and Dashboard updates
- On step-1 of the batch processing screen, selecting any of the old batches is intermittently loading duplicate entities, due to which the customer can select the same entity multiple times. Batch processing is enhanced to ensure that such processes are completed without getting stuck in processing.
- Key Benefits: The batch process will be completed successfully even if there are duplicate entities in the previous selection.
- The process log of binder-level and work area-level processes are enhanced so that the description of each log entry in the process log is more verbose. Also, more log entries are added in those process logs.Key Benefits:
- Verbose log entry descriptions will be more informative to the customers.
- More log entries are added to improve the granularity of how the process is progressing to completion.
Open issues
TN – SLS 450, Sales and Use Tax Return
The Tennessee Department of Revenue (TNDOR) released a new version of the SLS-450 that includes changes to Schedule B, Schedule C, Schedule E and a new Schedule I for February due to newly enacted legislation on Davidson County and the city of Hendersonville. Due to the state's late release and the complex nature of changes, we are still testing with the state. Withhold TN e-file submissions until after the February interim release scheduled for March 7, 2025.
Closed issues
Arizona
The CountySubTotals section of the XML will now generate the Credit amounts when there are overrides of "NONE".
Louisiana
The schema for Form 1029 has been updated for e-filing February returns and later.
Louisiana Locals
- The rate for the city of Elizabeth in Allen Parish has been corrected from 1.300% to 0.300%.
- The Calcasieu single and multiple sales and use returns will now print the correct "Month Of" in the header for non-monthly filed returns.
Arizona
Vermont Sales and Use tax return has been updated to include Local Option Sales Tax for the City of Berlin with a rate of 1.000 %.