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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

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

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

Maryland’s digital advertising tax bill passes out of committee with amendments

Earlier today, the Maryland Senate Budget and Taxation Committee voted to pass out of committee Senate Bill 2, which would impose a new tax on digital advertising services. The committee amended the bill to include a new...more

Congressional hearing on Wayfair raises sales tax burden issues

On March 3, 2020, the United States House of Representatives’ Committee on Small Business, Subcommittee on Economic Growth, Tax, and Capital Access, held a hearing titled, “South Dakota v. Wayfair, Inc.: Online Sales Taxes...more

California’s use tax nexus and marketplace collection requirements

On April 25, 2019, California Governor Gavin Newsom signed Assembly Bill 147 into law, modifying use tax nexus thresholds for state and local district taxes, and establishing marketplace collection requirements. These...more

New York Budget Bill passes Legislature

On March 31, 2019, the New York Legislature approved budget legislation for the Fiscal Year 2020 (the “Budget Bill”). Among other things, the Budget Bill codifies the position of the New York State Department of Taxation and...more

New York Governor proposes significant tax changes

New York State Governor Andrew Cuomo released his Fiscal Year 2020 budget and accompanying legislation on January 15, 2019 (the Budget Bill). Among other things, the Budget Bill proposes statutory revisions to respond to 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

Thanksgiving dinner arrives early – New Jersey serves up some amnesty dessert with some penalty turkey

New Jersey launched its tax Amnesty program on November 15, 2018. The program runs through January 15, 2019. Here are the top things you need to know about the program...more

Virginia Supreme Court Limits Corporate Income Tax Addback Exception

On August 31, 2017, the Virginia Supreme Court issued its opinion holding that only the portion of royalties that are actually taxed by another state falls within its “subject to tax” exception to Virginia’s addback statute...more

Quill Part Deux: North Dakota Lost the Nexus Battle. Will South Dakota Win the War?

On March 22nd, South Dakota Governor Daugaard signed into law Senate Bill 106 (S.B. 106), the passage of which may be the ultimate vehicle to challenge Quill at the U.S. Supreme Court. With landslide support in the South...more

All Nine Agree: U.S. Supreme Court Holds that the Tax Injunction Act Does Not Bar DMA’s Action in Federal Court

Yesterday the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously held in Direct Marketing Ass’n v. Brohl that the Tax Injunction Act (TIA) does not bar Direct Marketing Association’s federal lawsuit against Colorado.1 The TIA provides that...more

MTC Launches Transfer Pricing Effort

On June 2, the Arm’s Length Advisory Group (the Group) of the Multistate Tax Commission (MTC) met in St. Louis, Missouri, to begin the process of developing a multistate arm’s length pricing adjustment service. States...more

MTC Executive Committee Advances Significant Part of UDITPA Rewrite

On Thursday, May 8, the Multistate Tax Commission’s (MTC) Executive Committee (Committee) met in Washington, DC. During the meeting the Committee voted to advance its amendments to the Multistate Tax Compact’s (Compact)...more

Legal Alert: New York Tax Reform to Impact Captive Insurance Companies

In January, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo proposed broad corporate tax reform in his budget bill, which is currently winding its way through the legislature. The most significant proposal is a shift from a separate entity...more

A Pinch of SALT: 20 Years of Ambiguity in Addback Statutes

It has been more than 20 years since Ohio enacted legislation requiring taxpayers to add back some expenses paid to related parties for state income tax purposes. Since then, more than 20 states have enacted similar...more

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