State Tax for Online Purchases

[Stephanie59]

Are online software subscriptions and professional/other memberships taxed?

LinkedIn and Microsoft charge state tax, but no other. Should I be including all my software subscriptions (MS, Adobe, Grammarly, etc) and professional memberships (LinkedIn, APMP, ACE, etc) and Costco and job sites like Flexjobs.com in my online purchases that didn't charge me state tax?

[DMarkM1]

Depends on the state involved, but usually the use tax only involves goods or merchandise that is bought outside of the state and brought into or delivered into the state.  it does not appear that subscriptions/memberships would fit that definition.  Again however, you state tax authority will have a definition and examples of state taxable items.