The growth in emerging technologies and the rise of innovative digital products—from internet streaming, to the provision of traditional services through automated means, to online travel and hotel bookings—have disrupted longstanding assumptions about tax liability and provoked new questions over how digital goods should be taxed, especially in relation to comparable traditional products and methods.

Akerman’s Tax Practice Group is at the forefront of emerging tax issues and compliance with complex and varying state tax laws, including the impact of emerging technologies, telecommunications, digital goods, software, cloud computing, and internet sales. We assist producers, distributors, app and other software developers, and retailers of digital products such as satellite television, GPS, and VOIP communications, in developing comprehensive tax strategies, managing compliance programs, and navigating the wide ranging patchwork of state and local tax laws governing their businesses.

In addition to planning and compliance, we represent cutting edge technology companies in controversy and litigation matters involving state departments of revenue and others involving constitutional questions related to taxation as technology development challenges basic assumptions that have governed taxability for decades.