{"id":179657,"date":"2026-04-29T21:42:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T21:42:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/179657\/"},"modified":"2026-04-29T21:42:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T21:42:07","slug":"pennsylvania-weighs-digital-ad-tax-as-maryland-case-looms-large-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/179657\/","title":{"rendered":"Pennsylvania Weighs Digital Ad Tax as Maryland Case Looms Large"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pennsylvania lawmakers are considering legislation (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.palegis.us\/legislation\/bills\/2025\/hb1678\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">HB 1678)<\/a> that would expand the state\u2019s 5% gross receipts tax to digital advertising, making the state the latest to enter the fray over taxing social media companies.<\/p>\n<p>The Pennsylvania House Finance Committee brought up the bill Wednesday for discussion, weighing the risk of litigation from Big Tech and underscoring the state\u2019s need to find more revenue streams to fund services.<\/p>\n<p>The Pennsylvania debate comes a month after Utah <a data-terminal-id=\"TCIQPGKGZAJ2\" href=\"https:\/\/news.bloombergtax.com\/daily-tax-report-state\/utah-governor-signs-bill-creating-tax-on-targeted-ad-revenue\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">enacted<\/a> a targeted advertising tax that\u2019s <a data-terminal-id=\"TCVLRJKIJH9P\" href=\"https:\/\/news.bloombergtax.com\/daily-tax-report-state\/big-tech-legal-fight-looming-after-utah-enacts-targeted-ad-tax\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">likely to draw<\/a> a legal challenge similar to those brought against Maryland, which <a href=\"https:\/\/mgaleg.maryland.gov\/mgawebsite\/Legislation\/Details\/HB0732?ys=2020RS\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">adopted<\/a> a digital ad tax in &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pennsylvania lawmakers are considering legislation (HB 1678) that would expand the state\u2019s 5% gross receipts tax to digital&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":179646,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[80164,80163,80162,80167,28,30,29,50352,3652,1978,58921,80165,80166,80168],"class_list":["post-179657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-behavioral-advertising","tag-cyberlaw-legislation","tag-gross-receipts-tax","tag-limitations-on-authority-to-tax","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news","tag-sales-and-use-tax","tag-social-media","tag-state-budget","tag-state-tax","tag-state-tax-legislation","tag-taxation-of-digital-economy","tag-variable-interest-entities"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179657","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179657"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179657\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/179646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}