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SD officials say tax due on some online purchases
• PIERRE, S.D. (AP) -- State officials say South Dakotans doing their holiday shopping online should remember that state and city taxes may be due on their purchases.
• State Business Tax Director Doug Schinkel says many people don't realize that most Internet retailers are not collecting sales tax on items bought online. He says when sales tax is not charged on such purchases, the buyer owes a use tax.
• The state use tax is 4 percent, the same as the state sales tax. Many cities also charge a sales and use tax.
• Schinkel says online shoppers can find use tax reporting forms and other information on the state Revenue Department's website at http://www.state.sd.us/drr2/businesstax/st/usetax.htm
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Colorado Tech closing SD campus within 4 years
• SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) -- Colorado Technical University is closing its campus in South Dakota's largest city within four years, citing falling enrollment due to more people going back to work as the nation's economy improves.
• The for-profit school stopped enrolling students in Sioux Falls on Wednesday and said it would give current students a reasonable amount of time to complete their program of study. Officials expect the campus to remain open through September 2016.
• "This is certainly not an easy day," Campus President David Heflin told the Argus Leader. "The students are naturally concerned about what this means to them, but they know us well enough to know that when we say we'll take care of them, we mean it."
• Heflin declined to release enrollment data.
• The closing also will affect about 100 staff members. Transferring to other campuses will be an option for some staff, Heflin said. Colorado Tech also has campuses in the Colorado cities of Colorado Springs, Denver and Pueblo, Co., as well as in Kansas City, Mo., though the school said it also plans to close the branch in Pueblo in the next few years as students there finish up their programs.
• Colorado Tech offers more than 100 undergraduate and graduate degree programs, with a focus on criminal justice, business, information technology and health care management. KELO-TV reports that university services will be available after September 2016 through the Internet.
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