Pillsbury SALT is excited to welcome back Annie H. Huang to the team! Annie’s experience focuses on state and local tax matters, including corporate franchise and income, personal income, sales and use, and gross receipts and other local taxes. Annie brings not only strong legal experience but also a genuine…
The California Attorney General has confirmed the Office of Tax Appeals (OTA) may decline to apply a tax regulation in a taxpayer appeal if it conflicts with the relevant statute. OTA must afford appropriate deference to the issuing agency, but its authority extends to setting aside the regulation for that…
Pillsbury SALT partner Aruna Chittiappa will be speaking at NYU’s Introduction to State and Local Tax program. Join Aruna at the Introduction to State and Local Taxation conference for a series of in-depth discussions on state and local taxation, partnership taxation, trusts and estates, subchapter S, like-kind exchanges and international taxation…
Join Pillsbury SALT attorneys for this live webinar presented by COST. On June 18, Pillsbury SALT attorneys will join COST’s California Corporate Income Tax webinar for a discussion on California corporate income tax issues and San Francisco’s changes to its tax structure. Our attorneys will lead the following sessions: Jeff…
Pillsbury SALT partner Robert P. Merten III will be an instructor for the 2025 Summer Tax Institute, hosted by the UC Davis School of Law. Join Robert at the 35th annual Summer Tax Institute, scheduled for June 9 – 12, 2025, for this intensive, four-day educational program for tax professionals.…
Senate Bill 711 (S.B. 711) would update California’s conformity date to the Internal Revenue Code (IRC) from January 1, 2015, to January 1, 2025. If enacted, this change would apply to taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 2025, and would align California tax law with numerous federal provisions…
SALT partners Aruna Chittiappa and Evan Hamme will be presenting at COST’s 2025 Spring Conference taking place April 28 – May 1, 2025. Aruna is presenting on April 29 on the topic “Here Today…Gone Tomorrow.” This session will review states’ authority to offset taxes due with credits and when and…
In the Appeal of Mather, the California Office of Tax Appeals (OTA) held in a precedential opinion that New York City’s (NYC) Unincorporated Business Tax (UBT) was not a tax “imposed by and paid to another state,” as required to claim the Other State Tax Credit (OSTC), because New York…
SALT attorneys Zachary Atkins, Evan Hamme, Taylor Wolff and Breanna Zagorski will be presenting at the COST Pacific Northwest Regional State Tax Seminar on December 5. This seminar will present an update on significant state tax issues for California, the Pacific Northwest States, and other significant states around the country.…
The California Franchise Tax Board (FTB) announced it has initiated the formal rulemaking process to amend Regulation Section 25136-2, which governs the sourcing of receipts from services and intangible property. The proposed changes would apply to taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 2024. The proposed amendments include several…