West Virginia Digital Products Sales Tax Guide — 2026

“Digital products” covers eBooks, audiobooks, video downloads, online courses, streaming subscriptions, digital artwork, stock photos, music, and similar non-physical delivered goods. Whether West Virginia taxes them depends on how the state classifies the product — “specified digital products”, “electronic transfer of canned software”, or a service. Rules vary more than for physical goods.

If taxable in West Virginia, the product is subject to 6.00% state rate plus any applicable local rate based on the buyer's address.

Most states sort digital goods using the Streamlined Sales Tax definition of “specified digital products”, which splits them into three subcategories a state can tax or exempt independently:

• Digital audio-visual works — downloaded or streamed movies, shows, and recorded events. Streaming video subscriptions fall here.
• Digital audio works — downloaded or streamed music, podcasts, audiobooks, and ringtones. Streaming music subscriptions fall here.
• Digital books — eBooks. Newspapers, periodicals, blogs, and databases are excluded from the “book” definition and follow their own rules.

Because a state may tax one subcategory and exempt another, “are digital products taxable” rarely has a single yes/no answer. Where West Virginia taxes a subcategory, the charge is subject to the 6.00% state rate plus any local rate at the buyer’s address. Software subscriptions (SaaS and electronically delivered “canned” software) sit outside this framework and follow West Virginia’s separate software-taxability rule — see the SaaS guide for that determination.

Framework source: Streamlined Sales Tax Governing Board — “Specified Digital Products” definition (SSUTA §332). date_retrieved: 2026-06-04. State-by-state taxability still varies; verify each subcategory with the West Virginia Department of Revenue before invoicing.

• Specified digital products. Many states (adopting Streamlined Sales Tax definitions) tax SDPs — digital audio/video/books.
• Online courses and education. Most states treat live-instruction courses as non-taxable services but treat pre-recorded course access as taxable digital products. Watch for this split if you sell both.
• Subscriptions. Bundled subscription boxes with mixed digital + physical content are often taxed as a single taxable bundle — you can't allocate across taxable and non-taxable components unless the invoice separately states them.
• B2B vs B2C. Some states exempt B2B digital products when bought for resale or when the buyer has a direct-pay permit. Keep certificates on file.

• Treating all digital products the same across states — eBook tax treatment differs from SaaS, which differs from streaming.
• Bundling digital + physical goods without a line-item breakdown. Most states tax the full bundle at the physical rate if not itemized.
• Applying origin-based sourcing (your state's rate) when most states source digital products to the buyer's billing or shipping address.

West Virginia sales tax nexus and economic nexus threshold: remote sellers must collect West Virginia state and municipal sales and use taxes on West Virginia-delivered sales unless the small-seller exception applies. The Tax Division describes that exception as $100,000 or less in annual gross sales and fewer than 200 separate West Virginia transactions, so crossing either $100,000 in sales or 200 transactions creates the collection duty. The annual gross-sales and transaction counts include both taxable and nontaxable services delivered into West Virginia, and registered remote sellers collect applicable municipal sales/use tax when the destination municipality imposes it. West Virginia Tax Division source data last retrieved 2026-06-03.

Read the full West Virginia overview for thresholds, filing frequency, marketplace facilitator rules, and registration links. Use the nexus calculator to check whether you have crossed the threshold. For background on the post-Wayfair economic nexus framework, see the pillar guide.

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