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Law firms periodically receive requests for advice from CPAs regarding a client’s need to come into compliance with the relatively new and sometimes confusing “economic nexus” or “Wayfair” rules for selling goods or providing...more
In determining whether the commerce clause of the U.S. Constitution prohibits a state’s taxation of a remote seller, the U.S. Supreme Court for decades has upheld a tax if (1) there is a substantial nexus between the taxing...more
The U.S. Supreme Court decision in South Dakota v. Wayfair, Inc. 138 S. Ct. 2080 (2018) upended how businesses think about state tax compliance. In Wayfair, the Court upheld a South Dakota sales tax law that taxed...more
Louisiana voters appear to have rejected a constitutional amendment that would have centralized its state and parish sales tax systems. Does this rejection mean that parish taxes remain unduly burdensome to interstate...more
The Washington Supreme Court recently reviewed the much-maligned additional Business & Occupation (“B&O”) tax on certain financial institutions. Washington Bankers Ass’n v. Dep’t of Revenue, No. 98760-2 (Wash. Sept. 30, 2021)...more
In this episode - an update to episode 98 - Matt Hunsaker explains the Washington Supreme Court's decision in Washington Bankers Association v. Wa. Department of Revenue, in which the court concluded that a tax designed to...more
The Supreme Court of the United States’ decision in Wayfair, in June 2018, changed the landscape for sales and use taxes nexus for on-line retailers and remote sellers. Due to budgetary deficits the states are facing due to...more
This post is part of our ongoing series on issues that municipalities may face in 2020. Will digital streaming services such as Netflix become a source of revenue for municipalities this year? Recent legal decisions may...more
Effective November 1, 2019, remote sellers no longer have the option to collect and remit Oklahoma tax or report sales information to the Oklahoma Tax Commission. However, SB 513, enacted in May of 2019, raises the annual...more
Jeffrey S. Reed, Chair of Kilpatrick Townsend’s State and Local Tax Group, spoke in Washington DC on November 29, 2018 at the International Tax Dispute Resolution & Litigation Summit, on the topic “U.S. Sales and Use Tax:...more
What’s something difficult to chew, changes colors rapidly, and is going to be around for a long time? If you answered the Wonka candy Everlasting Gobstopper, you would be correct....more
In June 2018, just before the US Supreme Court ruling in Wayfair, Illinois enacted an economic nexus standard modeled after South Dakota’s law. The new Illinois standard takes effect on October 1, 2018. On September 11, the...more
On June 21, 2018, the United States Supreme Court dramatically altered the state tax world when it issued its decision in South Dakota v. Wayfair, Inc....more
In a previous article, we summarized AT&T’s 16-year effort, in two separate lawsuits, to have declared unconstitutional two Mississippi income tax statutes on the alleged basis that they placed a greater tax burden on AT&T...more
In a 5-4 decision, the U.S. Supreme Court, in the case of Comptroller of the Treasury of Maryland v. Wynne, 575 U.S. ____ (2015), has struck down, under the “dormant” Commerce Clause, an aspect of Maryland’s income tax laws...more
In This Issue: Ringing in the New Year: Issues from 2013 That Will Likely Impact 2014; Upcoming Speaking Engagements; Defending Against Penalties; and Dueling “Doing Business” Interstate-Commerce Exemptions:...more
The Alabama Department of Revenue has just finalized its new local nexus regulation, Ala. Admin. Code Rule 810-6-5-.04.02, that will apply to transactions occurring on or after January 1, 2014, following its rule-making...more