Thompson, Steve (SCI TW) wrote:
If you are a contract programmer in the state of Ohio, you must charge
sales tax any time the work you do involves the installation or
modification of the operating system!
Having done that very thing in this very state in the dim and distant past, I
became mildly curious.
tax.ohio.gov/divisions/legal/rules/final/5703_09/5703_9_46.stm seems to be the
current incarnation of the applicable rules.
Ok, so I asked the state to define the O/S in the area of mainframes
(specifically). They agreed that it was very complicated and so told me
that it was any component that exercised control over hardware. And
finally they said that I was the expert so I should make the decision as
to when something was sales taxable! [Hmmmm. Fox, hen house, what a
mental image!]
If the notion of fox-hen house-state government excercises your imagination, I
can only infer that you don't live here.
So I made sure to not write channel commands or work on
anything in JES2 (exits) where it would be argued that I was controlling
or modifying the control of hardware, etc.
It's probably just as well that I haven't written either CCW programs or
device-support code for thirty years.
Bob
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