Idaho’s cloud-services act needs improvement

In the early days of technology innovation, software was distributed on CDs that users could place on the hard drives of their personal computers. During this era, a policy was developed by the Idaho Tax Commission that treated software sales, like other goods, as subject to sales tax.

But software, as most of us know, evolved into a service delivered by web-based subscription systems. The industry segment is actually called "software as a service." State tax policy was blind to that transformation.

By JAY LARSEN

President and founder of the Idaho Technology Council

Read more here: http://www.idahostatesman.com/2014/01/15/2971534/cloud-services-clarification-act.html#storylink=cpy