Pillsbury SALT partner Robert P. Merten III will be participating as an instructor in the 2022 Summer Tax Institute put on by the UC Davis School of Law. The 32nd annual Summer Tax Institute is scheduled for June 13-16, 2022. It is an intensive, four-day educational program for tax professionals.…
Pillsbury SALT partner Breann Robowski will participate in the CalTax webinar series on June 7. Breann is partnering with Cris O’Neall (Greenberg Traurig) and Richard Ayoob (Ajalat, Polley, Ayoob, Matarese & Broege) to present on the topic, “Is Due Process Possible in Remote Assessment Appeals Hearings?” The speakers will discuss…
Pillsbury SALT partner Carley Roberts will be participating in a panel discussion on income tax at the CalTax Annual Meeting on June 2. Carley is partnering with Shail Shah (Reed Smith LLP) and Michael Vigil (Andersen) to discuss the topic, “Navigating California Income Tax: An Essential Update on the FTB.”…
Pillsbury SALT partner Breann Robowski will present during the 2022 ABA/IPT Virtual Advanced Tax Seminars in March. The Institute for Professionals in Taxation and the ABA Section of Taxation will once again host three jointly sponsored seminars in Sales Tax, Property Tax, and State Income Tax. These seminars will feature…
The Alabama Tax Tribunal held the taxpayers’ wholesale sales of fuel that entered and exited the state via the Colonial Pipeline were subject to the state’s wholesale oil license fee. The sales in question were made to Alabama license holders and involved fuel imported from out-of-state. The fuel would either…
California Governor Gavin Newsom has signed legislation (i.e., S.B. 113) to, among other things, reinstate business tax credits and net operating loss (NOL) deductions originally limited by the enactment of A.B. 85 in 2020. At the beginning of the pandemic, California anticipated the state would face a large tax revenue…
Pillsbury SALT partner Craig Becker will participate in the CalTax webinar series on February 8. Craig is partnering with Dan Goodwin (Ventura County Assessor) and Jordan Marks (Taxpayer Advocate, San Diego County Assessor’s Office) to present on the topic, “Is Remote Work Doing a Job on Commercial Property Values?” The…
Pillsbury SALT attorneys Carley Roberts, Robert P. Merten III, Jeff Phang, and Lexi Louderback recently published “How to Be Reasonable When Reasonably Approximating the Market: Part II” in Tax Notes State. Read more here.
California Supreme Court holds that courts can entertain arguments that a BID assessment scheme violates certain provisions of Proposition 218 when raised by a party who did not articulate these objections in public hearings held to consider protests. On December 20, 2021, the California Supreme Court reversed the court of…
Pillsbury SALT partner Craig Becker will present during the California Alliance of Taxpayer Advocates Annual Conference on December 10. Craig is presenting on the topic, “The Changing Battle of Assessment Appeals in the Age of COVID-19.” The conference runs from December 8 – 10, 2021 and is being held at…