Tag: sales tax
SC court rules against sales tax exemption
July 29, 2024HME News Staff
COLUMBIA, S.C. – The South Carolina Supreme Court has ruled the sales and use tax exemption for DME is unconstitutional. In Orthofix vs. S.C. Department of Revenue and KCI USA vs. S.C. Department of Revenue, the court found that certain language within the exemption discriminates against interstate commerce, which is prohibited under the dormant Commerce Clause. The state’s Department of Revenue has posted SC Information Letter #24-10 notifying DME providers that they are required to...
Aeroflow Healthcare backs Florida’s decision on tax exemption
July 5, 2023HME News Staff
ASHEVILLE, N.C. – Aeroflow Healthcare supports Florida’s decision to permanently exempt breast pumps, diapers and senior incontinence supplies from the state sales tax. Previously, the state exempted only diapers for children and only for one year until June 30, 2023. "Aeroflow is a staunch advocate for providing access to critical medical supplies that new moms, children, seniors and other patients across all income levels depend on and is thrilled to participate in this legislative...
Stakeholders, including PAMES, push for complex rehab carve-out
February 14, 2023HME News Staff
OLYMPIA, Wash. – The Pacific Association of Medical Equipment Services (PAMES) and providers in Washington state are working closely with patient advocates to build support for legislation to create a sales and use tax exemption for complex rehab technology products, according to AAHomecare. Providers and patient and disability advocates recently testified in support of S-5218 during a hearing before the Ways & Means Committee of the state Senate. In addition, PAMES and patient advocates...
AAH state update: Tennessee, Ohio, Illinois, Rhode Island
April 4, 2022HME News Staff
The Tennessee Senate has passed SB 2134, legislation to strengthen access to complex rehab technology. It would prohibit insurers from considering the location where CRT products will be used when making a medical necessity determination; require insurers to offer a prior authorization process for coverage determinations; and require insurers to pay 100% of benefits approved in a prior authorization issued by a plan. The legislation now heads to the Tennessee House for consideration. A companion...
PAMS gets sales tax dropped for breast pumps
August 9, 2021HME News Staff
HARRISBURG, Pa. – The Pennsylvania Association of Medical Suppliers (PAMS) has successfully exempted breast pumps from sales tax as part of HB 725, which was recently passed by the state’s General Assembly, AAHomecare reports. The elimination of the sales tax will be applicable to all retail sales of items initiating, supporting or sustaining breast feeding effective Jan. 1, 2022. “I am thankful that we are able to help provide some relief to our members, as this endeavor was delayed...
Retail sales: Know your Nexus
November 12, 2019Kamal Haddad
Q. I have an e-commerce website; what is my sales tax exposure?A. The general rule used to be you have to collect and remit sales tax in the states you have a physical location or Nexus. What is nexus? It's a connection between how and where you do business in a particular state. It could be a physical office, it could be a remote office, it could be where your sales reps live. But for the most part it was based on where your business had a physical presence, whether it be a location or agents. Unfortunately,...
NC waives tax for incontinence supplies
July 18, 2019HME News Staff
RALEIGH, N.C. - The North Carolina General Assembly has passed a bill that exempts medically prescribed diapers and incontinence products covered under the Medicaid program from the state sales tax starting Oct. 1, according to AAHomecare. “This is a great win for the industry that was accomplished by the collaborative work of our lobbyist working with AAHomecare, ACMESA and other provider lobbyists,” said Gayle Devins, CEO of ActivStyle. The bill, S. 523, now moves to Gov. Roy Cooper...
State news: Oklahoma, North Carolina
February 7, 2019Theresa Flaherty, Managing Editor
Fifteen members of the Oklahoma Medical Equipment Providers Association (OMEPA), other providers from the state and VGM's Jay Kopriva joined forces at the state capitol in Oklahoma City on Feb. 5 to educate and gather support from their state representatives for H.B. 1407, a bill that would exempt HME from sales tax. Currently, Oklahoma is one of only a few states that charges sales tax on HME and supplies. “We received overwhelming support for the bill,” Kopriva said in a VGM bulletin....
Nevada: DME exempted from sales tax
November 14, 2018HME News Staff
CARSON CITY, Nev. - Residents of Nevada last week voted in favor of exempting durable medical equipment from sales tax, according to a bulletin from VGM. Sixty-seven percent of voters approved the measure, which amends the Nevada Constitution to remove sales tax applied to DME, oxygen delivery equipment and mobility equipment when prescribed by a licensed healthcare provider. Provider Doug Bennett, of Bennett Medical Services and NAMPS, rallied grassroots efforts to advocate for the change.
Providers seek tax-exempt status for HME
June 30, 2016HME News Staff
LAS VEGAS - A group of providers on June 27 submitted more than 100,000 signatures to qualify an initiative to exempt certain HME from taxation for the November ballot, according to news reports. If it qualifies for the ballot, the initiative will ask voters whether certain HME, including oxygen tanks, ventilators and wheelchairs, should be exempt from the state's sales and use tax. Orthotics, prosthetics and certain other medical supplies are already exempt. Provider Doug Bennett of Bennett Medical...