Pillsbury SALT is pleased to welcome Joseph Chan to the team!
Joseph’s experience includes audit defense, protests and tax controversies and all aspects of state and local tax matters.
He joins Pillsbury’s Sacramento office as an associate.
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Pillsbury SALT partner Carley Roberts will be presenting at California Taxpayers Association’s 97th Annual Meeting on March 23.
Pillsbury SALT attorney Aruna Chittiappa will be presenting at TEI’s 73rd Midyear Conference on March 21. 
Pillsbury SALT partners Carley Roberts and Breann Robowski will be presenting during the 2023 ABA/IPT Advanced Tax Seminars in March.
Pillsbury SALT is excited to welcome Chris Koester to the team!
Chris’ experience includes tax controversy, from audit defense through litigation, and also counsels on multistate tax planning and structuring matters.
He joins Pillsbury’s New York office as an associate.
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Pillsbury SALT partner Robert P. Merten III will be presenting at the 2023 COST Sales Tax Conference taking place February 21-24, 2023.
The California Department of Tax and Fee Administration held its second interested parties meeting concerning the Department’s proposed revisions to its sales and use tax Audit Manual Chapter 13 (Statistical Sampling) and Chapter 4 (General Audit Procedures). The Department relies on statistical sampling during audits of large taxpayers to determine and project audit errors. The meeting and comments focused primarily on three proposed revisions by the Department: (1) elimination of the three-error rule; (2) treatment of progress payments; and (3) nonrecurring errors.
Pillsbury SALT is excited to welcome Breanna Zagorski to the team!
Breanna’s experience includes a variety of state and local tax matters, including multistate litigation, planning, audit defense and controversy issues.
She joins Pillsbury’s New York office as an associate.
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The Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts has proposed significant amendments to its service receipts sourcing regulation in the wake of the Texas Supreme Court’s decision in Sirius XM Radio, Inc. v. Hegar, 643 S.W.3d 402 (Tex. 2022). The proposed amendments would dispense with the Comptroller’s long-standing “receipts-producing, end-product act” test and align the underlying regulation with the SiriusXM decision.
Our state and local tax team collaborated with our real estate colleagues to summarize the effects of Measure ULA (Los Angeles), Measure GS (Santa Monica), Measure M (San Francisco) and Measure K (Palo Alto). 
Read More: Recent Measures Establish Tax Increases on Real Property in CA Cities (pillsburylaw.com)
