Hold Harmless for Error in GIS Database Data

Sales and Use Tax Simplification Task Force. The department of revenue owns and maintains a GIS database that is provided to vendors to determine the jurisdictions to which tax is owed and to calculate appropriate sales and use tax rates for individual addresses. The bill establishes that any vendor that properly uses and reasonably relies on the information in the GIS database to determine the tax rate and local taxing jurisdictions to which sales or use tax is owed is held harmless in an audit by a local taxing jurisdiction for an underpayment of tax, charge, or fee liability that results solely from an error or omission in the GIS database data. The bill requires the department of revenue to update the GIS database within 30 days of its receipt of updated or corrected information from a local taxing jurisdiction, provide a reasonably convenient method for a local taxing jurisdiction to report an error in the GIS database data, and ensure the data in the GIS database, including jurisdictional boundaries and tax rates, is at least 95% accurate.

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(Note: This summary applies to the reengrossed version of this bill as introduced in the second house.)