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SALT Scoreboard - Quarter 2, 2024

This is the second edition of the Eversheds Sutherland SALT Scoreboard for 2024. Since 2016, we have tallied the results of what we deem to be significant taxpayer wins and losses and analyzed those results. Our entire SALT...more

Doing less with Moore: Supreme Court upholds section 965 transition tax in Moore v. United States

Almost exactly a year after it shook the tax world by granting certiorari, on June 20, 2024, the Supreme Court issued its opinion in Moore v. United States, No. 22-800. By a vote of 7-2, the Court upheld the constitutionality...more

SALT Scoreboard - Quarter 1, 2024

This is the first edition of the Eversheds Sutherland SALT Scoreboard for 2024. Since 2016, we have tallied the results of what we deem to be significant taxpayer wins and losses and analyzed those results. Our entire SALT...more

Proposal to reform San Francisco gross receipts tax

On May 6, 2024, the San Francisco Controller and Treasurer released their proposed final tax reform ordinance language. To become effective, San Francisco voters will have to pass a measure on the November 5, 2024 ballot by a...more

Georgia’s 2024 legislative session: Major tax legislation moving forward

This year’s Georgia’s legislative session is quickly progressing, with some major tax legislation moving towards passage. Last Thursday, February 29, 2024 was “Crossover Day”—the 28th legislative day of 40 total legislative...more

Better than a box of chocolates: Foreign dividends included in California sales factor denominator

On February 14, 2024, the California Office of Tax Appeals (OTA) denied the California Franchise Tax Board’s (FTB) request for rehearing in the Appeal of Microsoft Corporation and Subsidiaries (OTA Case No. 21037336)....more

SALT Scoreboard - Quarter 4, 2023

This is the fourth edition of the Eversheds Sutherland SALT Scoreboard for 2023. Since 2016, we have tallied the results of what we deem to be significant taxpayer wins and losses and analyzed those results. Our entire SALT...more

Reforming San Francisco’s gross receipts tax

On February 5, 2024, the Offices of the Controller and Treasurer & Tax Collector for the City and County of San Francisco published a report outlining tax reform recommendations in time to inform a potential ballot measure...more

Five things to know about the Supreme Court’s grant of certiorari in Moore v. United States

The Supreme Court granted certiorari on June 26 with respect to the Ninth Circuit’s decision in Moore v. United States. The question presented is whether the section 965 transition tax is a “direct tax” that violates the...more

A dash of SALT on the deal: Key takeaways from TEI's 2023 M&A Seminar

State and local tax (SALT) issues may arise from mergers, acquisitions, or dispositions. Eversheds Sutherland Partner Todd Betor presented on Unique State Tax Issues at Tax Executives Institute’s 2023 Mergers & Acquisitions...more

Florida District Court of Appeals hears oral arguments in addback dispute

​​​​​​​On October 11, 2022, the Florida District Court of Appeals, First District held oral arguments on State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company v. Florida Department of Revenue, a case relating to the “add back” to...more

Maryland’s zombie digital ad tax is not dead

Maryland lawmakers are expected to revive a pair of failed controversial tax expansion proposals shortly after the scheduled start of the next legislative session on January 13, 2021. On May 7, Governor Larry Hogan vetoed...more

Massachusetts Appeals Court issues opinion favorably interpreting Internet Tax Freedom Act’s screening software requirement

On September 4, 2020, in New Cingular Wireless PCS LLC v. Commissioner of Revenue, No. 18-P-1317, the Massachusetts Appeals Court held that the Internet Tax Freedom Act (ITFA) preempted Massachusetts’ sales tax on New...more

Merely deriving receipts from New Jersey sources does not create nexus for Corporation Business Tax purposes

On September, 9, 2020, the New Jersey Appellate Division ruled against the taxpayer in Preserve II, Inc. v. Director, Div. of Taxation, No. A-1331-17T3. On its face, the decision looks like a disappointing taxpayer loss...more

CARES Act loans and related programs come with increased oversight and risk of False Claims Act prosecution: Borrowers beware

On March 27, 2020, the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act of 2020 (CARES Act) came into effect as part of an ongoing effort to combat the financial crisis arising from the COVID-19 pandemic. The CARES Act...more

Missouri bill would require payment processors to collect sales tax

The Missouri House of Representatives is considering legislation (House Bill 648) that would impose sales tax collection obligations on payment processors. House Bill 648 was introduced on January 23, 2019, was read in the...more

New York instructs taxpayers on GILTI apportionment

The New York State Department of Taxation and Finance released guidance in the form of tax return instructions addressing how it will account for global intangible low-taxed income (referred to as GILTI) for apportionment...more

It’s Not the Eggnog – New Jersey Proposes to Specially Allocate GILTI Based on GDP

On December 21, the New Jersey Division of Taxation released Technical Bulletin TB-85, which addresses how the Division will expect taxpayers to calculate the amount of so-called global intangible low-taxed income (GILTI) and...more

Results are in - state tax ballot measures

The dust is beginning to settle from the 2018 midterm elections. Though the nation has been focused this week on the federal House and Senate races, several state ballot measures have significant state and local tax...more

Overlooked opportunities? State tax considerations relating to investments in federal qualified opportunity zones

The year 2018 has been a monumental one for the state and local tax community. If the sweeping changes to the US federal tax code made by the federal Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 (TCJA) and continued efforts by the states to...more

New York bill introduced to exempt GILTI

On June 11, 2018, Senate Bill 8991 (the Bill) was introduced by New York Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan. The Bill would decouple from the federal treatment of Global Intangible Low-Taxed Income (GILTI). ...more

New York State budget adopts substantial changes in response to federal TCJA 

The New York Legislature passed its 2018-2019 Fiscal Year budget on March 30, 2018 (Budget), which is expected to be signed into law by Governor Cuomo. The starting point for determining New York taxable income is federal...more

US Supreme Court’s Ruling Bolsters Taxpayers’ First Amendment Right To Pass Through Fees (and Taxes)

On March 29, 2017, in a unanimous ruling, the US Supreme Court ruled that a New York statute, which prohibits identifying a surcharge to customers for credit card payments, regulates speech and is therefore subject to...more

Louisiana DOR Proposed Unique - and Troubling - Addback Regulation

The Louisiana Department of Revenue proposed a new regulation expansively interpreting Louisiana’s recently enacted related party expense addback statute. La. Reg. vol. 42, no. 10, pg. 1767 (Oct. 20, 2016) (the Proposed...more

Ho! Ho! Ho! Delaware Sets its Sights–Again–on Uncashed Rebate Checks

There’s never a dull moment in Delaware when it comes to unclaimed property. The latest salvo comes by way of a lawsuit filed by the Delaware Department of Finance against Blackhawk Engagement Solutions (DE), Inc. (formerly...more

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