In 2021, the Alabama Legislature unanimously enacted an elective pass-through entity tax (PTE Tax) as a workaround to the so-called “SALT Cap,” which was part of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017. The Alabama Electing...more
7/12/2023
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Readers may recall that the Alabama Legislature unanimously enacted an elective pass-through entity tax (PTE Tax) last year as a workaround to the so-called “SALT Cap,” which was part of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017. The...more
6/27/2022
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Earlier this year, Alabama became one of 19 or so states to enact a pass-through entity tax as a workaround to the so-called "SALT Cap" enacted as part of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017, which limits the deductibility of...more
11/15/2021
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Earlier this year, Alabama became one of 19 or so states to enact a pass-through entity tax as a workaround to the so-called “SALT Cap” enacted as part of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 that limits the deductibility of...more
9/7/2021
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On April 27, 2021, the Multistate Tax Commission (MTC) Uniformity Committee voted to accept its Standing Subcommittee’s recommendation to create a work group to study several key issues relating to multistate taxation of...more
At the urging of the Alabama Society of CPAs and other groups, the Alabama Department of Revenue (ADOR) recently issued preliminary guidance on (a) how the new pass-through entity (PTE) tax election interacts with the...more
4/8/2021
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On February 12, Gov. Kay Ivey signed into law Act 2021-1, introduced only two weeks before as House Bill 170 (and its counterpart SB 98), and designated three separate acts: (1) the Alabama Taxpayer Stimulus Freedom Act of...more
On January 28, HB 170 and its Senate counterpart, SB 98, were prefiled with the Alabama Legislature and designated as three separate acts: (i) The Alabama Taxpayer Stimulus Freedom Act of 2021, (ii) The Alabama Business Tax...more
2/2/2021
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Retired Navy SEALs apparently have a persistence that other taxpayers may not have. Case in point (literally)—Noell Industries, Inc. v. Idaho State Tax Commission, decided on May 22, 2020, by the Idaho Supreme...more
The Alabama Legislature was stymied last year over proposals to decouple from or conform with various provisions of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 (TCJA). As a compromise, the Legislature formed a Joint Legislative Task...more
2/21/2020
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On December 16, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and the Treasury Department issued proposed regulations... that provide some good news and needed clarification for C corporations, individuals, and S corporations and other...more
12/19/2019
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Now that the Treasury Department and Internal Revenue Service have issued ?nal regulations to address at least some variations of so-called ‘‘SALT cap workarounds’’ to the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act’s limitation on individual...more
Now that the dust has settled following the issuance of the final “SALT cap workaround” regulations by the Treasury Department, here’s a summary of those regulations, the IRS guidance issued in connection with the final...more
7/15/2019
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Sometimes the law of unintended consequences is difficult to correct after the fact. The most recent example may be the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act’s $10,000 annual limitation on state and local tax deductions claimed by...more
1/4/2019
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On July 31, the Alabama Department of Revenue (ADOR or Department) released its long-awaited and quite comprehensive analysis of the impact of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 (otherwise known as “federal tax reform”) on...more
9/5/2018
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On July 31, the Alabama Department of Revenue (ADOR) released its long-awaited “Analysis of Federal Tax Law Revisions on the State of Alabama,” a comprehensive review of the changes brought about by the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act...more
8/13/2018
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Gov. Kay Ivey signed House Bill 384, into law last Wednesday, March 28, ending a debate that has lasted for almost a decade over the scope of the individual income tax credit for certain taxes paid to other states. ...more
Details of a final agreement among House and Senate Republicans emerged last week -- including rate cuts for “C” corporations, individuals and pass-through businesses. Here’s a summary of what the conferees have agreed to,...more
12/18/2017
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Readers may recall that Alabama Act 2012-427 permitted Alabama residents that owned interests in multistate pass-through entities (e.g., LLCs, partnerships, and S corporations) to claim a credit against their Alabama income...more