Starting next month, Zoom meetings will come with an extra fee on the monthly bill.

Zoom, the videoconferencing platform that became a go-to for meetings and events in the pandemic, sent a notification to users last week that it will charge a sales tax on telecommunications services. Per the email, the company said it will charge 8% sales tax for businesses and residents who use the service in Baltimore city. It will charge 9% sales tax for users in Prince George’s County.

“Like many other unified communications companies, Zoom is required to collect certain taxes from some of its users depending on where they’re located,” a company spokesperson said in a statement in response to questions from Technical.ly. “Effective November 1, 2020, Zoom will begin collecting and remitting these taxes to the appropriate local governments. The potential tax is dependent on where the user is located in Maryland and the specific services the user purchases from Zoom.”

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