Pillsbury SALT partner Robert P. Merten III will participate as an instructor in the 2024 Summer Tax Institute put on by the UC Davis School of Law. The 34th annual Summer Tax Institute, scheduled for June 17-20, 2024, is an intensive, four-day educational program for tax professionals. The institute has…
Pillsbury SALT partner Evan Hamme will be presenting at COST’s 2024 Intermediate/Advanced State Income Tax School on May 20. Evan, along with Trevor Mauck (Baker & McKenzie), will be presenting on the topic “Filing Methodologies.” This session will cover the various income tax filing methodologies used by the states,…
The California Office of Tax Appeals (OTA), in a decision marked “not precedential” in the Matter of the Appeal of Microsoft Corporation & Subsidiaries, held 100 percent of repatriated dividends under the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) must be included in the taxpayer’s sales factor denominator. First, the OTA…
SALT partners Zachary Atkins and Evan Hamme will speak at COST’s upcoming Spring Conference. This three-and-a-half day conference will bring multistate tax professionals together and will provide updates on key SALT issues and insights regarding state tax trends and opportunities. Join Zack and Evan as they speak on the following…
The California Franchise Tax Board (FTB), California Department of Tax and Fee Administration (CDTFA) and California Employment Development Department (EDD) announced tax relief for certain California counties affected by severe winter storms. The FTB automatically extended the filing and payment deadlines for businesses and individuals in San Diego County (only),…
The Supreme Court of Ohio has held the Ohio legislature did not violate the Due Process Clause of the U.S. Constitution by directing an Ohio citizen to pay taxes to the municipality where the employee’s principal place of work was located rather than to where the employee actually worked. During…
A California trial court denied the Franchise Tax Board’s (FTB) motion to vacate and modify the judgment declaring FTB Technical Advice Memorandum (TAM) 2022-01 and FTB Publication 1050 invalid underground regulations adopted in violation of the Administrative Procedure Act. Seeking to limit the scope and effect of the…
The New York State Tax Appeals Tribunal (Tribunal) held that a taxpayer’s distributive share income from a partnership was intangible income properly sourced to the taxpayer’s residence and not to the location of the partnership’s underlying operations. In the Matter of Greenberg, the taxpayer was a New York resident partner…
A New York nonresident taxpayer, Edward Zelinsky, recently filed a notice of exception to a Division of Tax Appeals’ (DTA) determination that he must allocate all his wages to New York under the so-called “convenience of the employer” rule.[1] Zelinsky, a Connecticut resident who had previously challenged New York’s controversial…
The California Office of Tax Appeals (OTA) recently issued two opinions addressing the burden of proof taxpayers must meet to substantiate entitlement to California’s research and development (R&D) tax credit for qualified expenditures under California Revenue and Taxation Code section 23609. In both opinions, the OTA ruled in favor of…