Congratulations to our Pillsbury SALT team, again earning recognition in the Chambers USA ranking guide. Our California SALT team earned a Band 1 ranking for the 4th year, with partners Jeffrey Vesely (Band 1) earning his 18th ranking, Carley Roberts (Band 1) with her 16th ranking, and Robert Merten (Band 2) with his 2nd ranking this year. Congratulations!
The New Mexico Court of Appeals has held that a multinational oil and gas production company did not constitute a “unitary corporation” with its foreign subsidiaries, pursuant to statutory carve-out language regarding the term “unitary corporation.”
The New Jersey Tax Court held that a taxpayer was entitled to a refund of corporation business tax (CBT) for tax years 2011 and 2012 after determining the taxpayer correctly used a market-based sourcing methodology to source service receipts to New Jersey. In its unpublished April 11, 2024, opinion, the court rejected the argument that the law and regulations in effect during the tax years at issue, which preceded 2018 legislation adopting market-based sourcing, required the use of a cost of performance (COP) methodology.
Zack Atkins’ comments in Law360 Tax Authority regarding newly passed legislation in Tennessee that could provide taxpayers with up to $1.6 billion in rebates for portions of three years of past payments and up to $400 million in new savings each year.
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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.
Pillsbury SALT partner Breann Robowski will present at this year’s Wichita Property 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.
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 Corporation & Subsidiaries (Appeal of Microsoft) and by granting the Franchise Tax Board’s (FTB) quasi-legislative rulemaking authority exempt from the procedural protections afforded by the Administrative Procedure Act. The May Revision also proposes to suspend net operating loss (NOL) deductions and limit tax credit utilization to $5 million per year for tax years 2025-2027; however, the legislature proposes to apply the changes to tax years 2024-2026 instead.
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.
Pillsbury SALT partner Evan Hamme will be presenting at COST’s 2024 Intermediate/Advanced State Income Tax School on May 20.
