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.”…
An administrative law judge in the New York State Division of Tax Appeals rejected the New York State Division of Taxation’s use of a look-through approach for sourcing fees paid to a broker-dealer for marketing, recordkeeping, and support services. The April 28, 2022 determination in Matter of TD Ameritrade, Inc.,…
Pillsbury SALT Counsel Evan Hamme will be an instructor at the COST Intermediate and Advanced Income Tax School scheduled for May 15-19, 2022. COST’s Intermediate and Advanced Income Tax School is being held simultaneously with COST’s SALT Basics School and Intermediate and Advanced Sales and Use Tax School in Atlanta,…
The Texas Supreme Court issued a decision holding that service receipts are sourced to the physical location of the taxpayer’s personnel or equipment that performed the service for which the customer paid. The decision resolves disagreement regarding the proper interpretation of a Texas franchise tax apportionment statute that addresses the…
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…
Pillsbury SALT partner Carley Roberts will present at COST’s 2022 Sales Tax Conference & Audit Session on March 10. Carley is partnering with Mark Loyd (Dentons) to present on the topic, “Defending Against States’ Use of Deference, Substance Over Form, & Sham Transaction Doctrines.” State Tax Administrators have pushed the use…
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…