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Texas Comptroller Finds Insurance Tracking Services Not Taxable Data Processing Services
Grant Thornton LLP
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The Texas Comptroller has issued a private letter ruling holding that a taxpayer providing insurance tracking/notification services to lenders was not providing taxable services.
The Texas Comptroller has issued a private letter
ruling holding that a taxpayer providing insurance
tracking/notification services to lenders was not providing taxable
services. Although the taxpayer used computers in performing the
service, the Comptroller found that such service was not considered
a taxable data processing service or a taxable insurance service.
This private letter ruling is significant because it demonstrates
the Comptroller’s consideration of all relevant facts in
determining the “essence of the transaction.”