Monthly Minute | January 2020
Key Takeaways ..The Ohio Supreme Court decision in NASCAR Holdings, Inc. v. McClain is an Ohio commercial activity tax case that provides another recent example of state courts wrestling with how to apply statutory...more
Late in the evening of July 7, 2022, Governor Tom Wolf signed Act 53 of 2022 (Act 53) into law. Act 53 significantly modifies the corporate net income tax (CNIT), subjects certain ride-sharing agreements to sales tax,...more
Pennsylvania’s 2022-2023 budget, Act of Jul. 8, 2022, P.L. __. No. 53 (Act 2022-53) (HB 1342) implements sweeping tax reform and revises some of Pennsylvania’s most business-unfriendly tax provisions. The bill will:.....more
The Source of Income from the Sale of Personal Property Generally, income from the sale of personal property is “sourced” to the residence of the seller. If the seller is a U.S. tax resident the source of the income is deemed...more
Tax Litigation: The Week of February 7 – February 11, 2022 Williams v. Commissioner Sloane v. Commissioner TBL Licensing LLC v. Comm’r, Corrected 158 T.C. 1 | February 8, 2022 | Filed January 31, 2022 | Halpern, J. | Dkt. No....more
Since 2017, the California Franchise Tax Board has been working on revisions to its regulations for market-based sourcing regulation for income from services and intangibles and for petitioning for alternative apportionment....more
Massachusetts is already an unattractive state of residency from an estate tax planning perspective because of its low estate tax filing threshold of $1,000,000 per person. Once a person’s adjusted taxable estate is over $1M...more
The final and proposed regulations under sections 951A and 954 of the US Internal Revenue Code contain certain rules that may present planning opportunities—or possibly onerous results—depending on a taxpayer’s specific fact...more
We invite you to join us for a discussion on current tax issues including: • Judicial deference and potential impact on TCJA audits • Developments and planning considerations for intangible assets o US tax...more
The unfolding Altera Corporation & Subsidiaries v. Commissioner (Altera) saga bore witness to another taxpayer-unfriendly development on June 7, when the Ninth Circuit chose in a 2-1 vote to uphold certain Treasury...more
Qualified Opportunity Zone Businesses - BACKGROUND - In December 2017, as part of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (“TCJA”), Congress established a new tax incentive program to promote investment in certain low-income...more
• As noted in Part 1 of this series, new H.R. 1, informally known as the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (Tax Act), has been the most important change to the U.S. tax code in a generation. • In Part 2, this client alert continues to...more
On April 11, 2018, the General Assembly’s Revenue Laws Study Committee released a draft tax bill for possible introduction in the legislative session that convenes May 16. This Alert provides a summary of the more important...more
The recently released final regulations are generally consistent with the 2014 proposed regulations in their treatment of renewable energy and transmission assets, with several useful clarifications provided. ...more
I. Overview - On August 6, 2015, the Internal Revenue Service (the “IRS”) and the Treasury Department announced their intention in Notice 2015-54 (the “Notice”) to issue regulations (the “Future Regulations”) under...more
In This Issue: - Important Changes at NYS and NYC Tax Agencies - Court of Appeals Upholds Constitutionality of Taxing Nonresidents on Gain from S Corporation Stock Sale in Two Separate Decisions - NYC Tribunal...more
In This Issue: - State Tribunal Affirms Decision Imposing Sales Tax on Information Services - Appellate Division Upholds Applicability of Sales Tax to Environmental Testing and Monitoring Services - Bulk...more
In this issue: - No Expressions of Goodwill from Arizona Department of Revenue - California Court of Appeal: ITFA Doesn’t Make the CUT - Round We Go: Indiana Denies Taxpayer’s Intercompany “Residual...more
Representative Dave Reed (R-Indiana Co.), with more than fifty co-sponsors, has reintroduced legislation (H.B. 440) that would require corporations preparing PA Corporate Net Income Tax returns to add-back any “intangible...more