Pillsbury SALT partner Marc Simonetti will present during COST’s 2022 Income Tax Conference on April 27.
COST’s Income Tax Conference is a two-and-a-half-day conference taking place from April 25 – 28, 2022 at the Grand Hyatt in Denver, Colorado. The conference combines technical and policy presentations from professionals with a focus on current income and franchise tax issues.
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 sourcing of service receipts. The statute sources a service provider’s receipts to Texas to the extent the service is “performed” in Texas. The taxpayer argued that its receipts from sales of satellite radio programming subscriptions were properly sourced to the location where its personnel and equipment performed the radio production and transmission services necessary for its radio programming (“origination sourcing”). The Comptroller interpreted the apportionment statute to source service receipts to Texas if the “receipt-producing, end-product act” takes place in Texas, which the Comptroller argued occurred where each subscriber’s radio received and decrypted the taxpayer’s radio signal (“destination sourcing”).
Pillsbury SALT partners Breann Robowski and Marc Simonetti will present during the 2022 ABA/IPT Virtual Advanced Tax Seminars in March.
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 enter Alabama from out-of-state through the Colonial Pipeline or be injected in the pipeline at a point in Alabama. In either instance, the fuel was bound for final movement out of Alabama with there being no subsequent point in Alabama where the fuel could exit the pipeline.
Pillsbury SALT partner Carley Roberts will present at COST’s 2022 Sales Tax Conference & Audit Session on March 10.
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.
Two organizations, the Washington Bankers Association and American Bankers Association (collectively, the “Associations”), are urging the U.S. Supreme Court to review the constitutionality of Washington’s business and occupation surtax on large financial institutions. On January 28, 2022, the Associations filed a cert petition arguing that the surtax discriminates against interstate commerce in violation of the Commerce Clause and that the Washington Supreme Court’s decision upholding the surtax is erroneous.
The SALT team would like to extend our congratulations to Robert P. Merten III on his promotion to Partner!
Pillsbury SALT partner Craig Becker will participate in the CalTax webinar series on February 8.
Pillsbury SALT partner Robert P. Merten III will present during the 2022 Eagle Lodge West Conference taking place February 24-25.
