State Tax Day - Current, S.10, Rhode Island—Sales and Use Tax: Report Generated through AI and Human Review was Taxable, (Sep 24, 2026)
A report produced by artificial intelligence and human review to help communicate needs of neurodivergent individuals to schools and other settings was subject to Rhode Island sales and use tax as a product of vendor-hosted prewritten computer software.
Here, the company sold access to software that allowed customers to provide information for, and obtain via an online dashbord, the report. The access was to a set of coded instructions designed to cause automatic data processing equipment to perform a task. Since the software was not designed for a specific purchaser, the report produced by the software was taxable.
Ruling Request No. 2026-01, Rhode Island Division of Taxation, August 31, 2026, ¶201-175
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Explanations at ¶60-310