Pillsbury SALT is excited to welcome Lauren Durborow to the team!
Lauren’s experience includes variety of state and local tax matters, including multistate litigation, planning, audit defense and controversy issues.
She joins Pillsbury’s New York office as an associate.
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SALT attorney Jeff Phang will be presenting at an event hosted by the Sacramento Young Tax Lawyers (SacYTL), in collaboration with the California Lawyers Association – Tax Section.
SALT partners Carley Roberts, Robert P. Merten III, Aruna Chittiappa and Evan Hamme will be speaking at COST’s Digital Workshop taking place March 2–4, 2026.
SALT partners Craig Becker and Robert P. Merten III will be presenting at this year’s CalTax Annual Meeting.
In a recent decision, the Wisconsin Tax Appeals Commission drew a bright line for sourcing receipts from software for sales factor apportionment purposes: without a contract with the end-user, a company cannot source receipts from software to the end-user’s location. Instead, the receipts must be sourced based on the location of the company’s immediate customer, even if most end-users are elsewhere.
SALT partner Breann Robowski will be presenting at the Western States Petroleum Association 2026 PSAC Conference.
A recent Bloomberg Law article suggests the coming year could bring pivotal state and local tax rulings with implications that extend well beyond the individual disputes.
Pending cases in New York, South Carolina and Maryland raise key questions involving foundational state tax issues that SALT practitioners will be watching closely in 2026.
In a recent article published by TaxNotes, our colleague Andrew Weiner commented on New York Governor Kathy Hochul’s veto of legislation that would have decoupled the state’s LLC Transparency Act from the federal Corporate Transparency Act.
The veto keeps New York’s beneficial ownership disclosure regime aligned with the narrowed federal rules, raising state and local tax–related compliance and administrative questions for foreign-formed and multistate LLCs doing business in New York. The article discusses the resulting uncertainty, including the absence of state guidance and the potential for ongoing state-level filing obligations that do not exist under federal law.
To read more (article behind TaxNotes paywall): New York Tied to Narrowed Scope of Federal Corporate Transparency Act | Tax Notes
Proponents of the 2026 Billionaire Tax Act amended the initiative, prompting opponents to file five new initiatives aimed at undermining various aspects of the measure. The 2026 Billionaire Tax Act would impose a one-time wealth tax on California residents and trusts with “net worth,” defined in the initiative, exceeding $1 billion, as discussed more detail in our prior article.
SALT partner Breann Robowski will be speaking at the California Alliance of Taxpayer Advocates 2025 Annual Conference on December 12.
