On January 23, 2013, Massachusetts Governor Patrick submitted his budget recommendations for Fiscal Year 2014 to the Massachusetts Legislature. The bill contains tax proposals that include: adopting a market based approach for services and other receipts, along with a 'throw-out' rule; taxing security corporations and utility corporations like other business corporations; repealing the FAS 109 deduction for eligible corporations; increasing the personal income tax rate to 6.25%; lowering the sales and use tax rate to 4.5%; and extending the sales and use tax to computer and data processing services and custom software.
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