by Michael Whitener, VistaLaw For most of us, the tax man has already come and done his damage for the tax year, taking his allotted pound of flesh from our personal and/or corporate accounts. So with memory of that pain still fresh, it may be worthwhile to look at how a specific type of tax—the value-added tax (VAT)—applies to sales of Software as a Service. In an earlier article,  we looked at the impact of U.S. sales taxes on software transactions, including delivery of SaaS. We saw that this area is very murky, but that an increasing number of states