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MTC Adopts Allocation and Apportionment Regulations

In a rare special meeting on February 24, 2017, the Multistate Tax Commission (MTC) adopted amendments to the MTC’s Model General Allocation and Apportionment Regulations (Model Regulations) that it has worked on since 2014....more

The Grandpappy of All Extensions: Congress Permanently Extends the Internet Tax Freedom Act

On February 11, the United States Senate approved a permanent extension of the Internet Tax Freedom Act (ITFA) contained in the Conference Report accompanying H.R. 644, the “Trade Facilitation and Trade Enforcement Act of...more

Bueller? Bueller? MTC Still Calling on States to Join ALAS Program

The Multistate Tax Commission (MTC) advanced several items of interest during its annual fall meetings held in Charleston, South Carolina, this week, including the creation of a new committee to continue gathering support for...more

Wynne’s First Casualty: First Marblehead Corp. v. Commissioner

Today, the U.S. Supreme Court vacated the decision of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (SJC) in First Marblehead Corp. v. Commissioner of Revenue (First Marblehead) and remanded the case back to the court for...more

Congress Extends Internet Tax Freedom Act as part of Short-Term Spending Bill

On September 30, the U.S. House of Representative voted in favor of H.R. 719, which includes provisions extending the Internet Tax Freedom Act (ITFA) through December 11, 2015. The bill, passed earlier in the day by the...more

The Windy City’s Taxes on Cloud Computing, Streaming Services

On August 7, the Chicago Department of Finance delayed the effective date of the imposition of the Personal Property Lease Transaction Tax (the Lease Tax) on cloud computing services from September 1, 2015, to January 1,...more

Multistate Tax Commission Amends the Equitable Apportionment Provision of the Compact and Apportionment Rules for Financial...

Yesterday, the Multistate Tax Commission (MTC) held its annual meeting in Spokane, Washington. The meeting is the annual event where full MTC member states approve model laws in their final version. The approved versions are...more

Multistate Tax Commission Committees Discuss Apportionment Details and an Information-Sharing Program

Yesterday, the Multistate Tax Commission (MTC) held meetings of its Litigation, Uniformity, and Strategic Planning Steering Committees. The meetings were generally dominated by discussions of evolving apportionment issues,...more

MTC Nearing Completion of Model Sourcing Regulation for Services and Intangibles

The Multistate Tax Commission’s (MTC) Annual Conference and Committee Meetings are being held on July 27-30, 2015, in Spokane, Washington. On Tuesday, July 28, 2015, at approximately 1:00 pm PDT (exact time subject to...more

Multistate Tax Commission Commences Annual Conference, Expands Audit Program

Yesterday, the Multistate Tax Commission (MTC) kicked off its annual conference and committee meetings with meetings of the Audit and Nexus Committees. The MTC’s Audit program continues to grow by adding Iowa, Pennsylvania,...more

Triple Threat: U.S. House Subcommittee Considers Three State Tax Bills

On June 2, 2015, the U.S. House of Representatives Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on Regulatory Reform, Commercial and Antitrust Law conducted a hearing on three state tax bills: the Mobile Workforce State Income Tax...more

Alas, the MTC Executive Committee Approves Its Transfer Pricing Program Design

After nearly a year of planning, the Multistate Tax Commission Executive Committee today approved the Arm’s-Length Adjustment Services Advisory Group (the Group) Final Program Design. The following six states have agreed to...more

This is Not a Joke: Federal Court to Consider Quill and Comity

In the ongoing saga over Colorado’s use tax reporting laws in Direct Marketing Association v. Brohl (DMA), the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit ordered a full briefing on the Comity Doctrine and the Commerce Clause...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

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