Pillsbury SALT attorneys Carley Roberts, Jeffrey Vesely, Craig Becker, Robert P. Merten III, Zachary Atkins, Evan Hamme and Aruna Chittiappa will present at this year’s SALT Workshop for Technology Companies on August 14 and 15. Zachary Atkins: Escalating Burden of Gross Receipts Taxes and Local Taxes (Including Recent SF Activity)…
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2024 Wichita Property Tax Conference
Pillsbury SALT partner Breann Robowski will present at this year’s Wichita Property Tax Conference. Breann will present on the topic “Legal Update.” Held at Wichita State University, the Wichita Property Tax Conference is the world’s longest lasting and most well-attended conference for both newcomers and advanced professionals involved with complex…
NYU Introduction to State and Local Tax Conference
Pillsbury SALT attorney Aruna Chittiappa will be presenting at NYU’s Introduction to State and Local Tax conference taking place July 22-23, 2024 in New York. Aruna will be presenting on the topic “Overview of State Corporate Income Taxation.” This session will cover tax base and federal income tax conformity, common…
California’s 2024-2025 Budget Seeks to Block $1.3 Billion of Refunds for Water’s Edge Taxpayers, Suspend NOL Deductions, and Limit Tax Credit Utilization
The May Revision of California’s 2024-2025 state budget seeks to block refund claims, worth approximately $1.3 billion for historical tax years, and $200 million per year going forward, by codifying informal guidance recently rejected by the Office of Tax Appeal’s (OTA) decision in the Matter of the Appeal of Microsoft…
2024 Summer Tax Institute
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…
COST’s 2024 Intermediate/Advanced State Income Tax School
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,…
Proposed Initiative to Amend San Francisco Business Taxes
A proposed initiative (available here) is being circulated to place on the November 5, 2024 ballot, an ordinance amending the Business and Tax Regulations Code effective January 1, 2025. The proposal would initially decrease total business taxes by almost $100 million a year making it one of the biggest tax…
New Jersey Issues Guidance on Adoption of Federal Partnership Audit Regime
On April 5, 2024, the New Jersey Division of Taxation issued guidance discussing New Jersey’s adoption of the federal centralized partnership audit regime enacted as part of the federal Bipartisan Budget Act of 2015, P.L. 114-74. The guidance was released over a year after the Senate and General Assembly of…
South Carolina Legislature Forces New Standards for Forced Combination on Revenue Department
Under a new bill signed into law on March 11, 2024, the South Carolina Department of Revenue will have to satisfy additional standards before it may force affiliated corporate taxpayers to file a unitary combined return. These new standards, enacted as part of Senate Bill 298, are expected to rein…
Reminder: “Gross” Does Not Mean “Net” – California OTA Holds All Repatriated Dividends Must Be Included in Sales Factor
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…