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H.R. 8021: More Preemption of State Taxing Authority
The recent United States Budget Reconciliation bill included language that modifies the provisions of P.L. 86-272, the 1959 federal statute that prohibits states from imposing income taxes on out-of-state business if their only activity in a state is soliciting the...
Commercial Domicile: The Crumbling Pillar of Corporate Income Taxation
In the case of certain nonbusiness income, courts and legislatures have long assigned taxing rights to a multistate business’s state of commercial domicile. In this recent article published in Tax Notes State, MTC Senior Counsel Brian Hamer explains that in the...
Credits: Cure for Use Tax Apportionment
Ellingson Drainage v. South Dakota - In this article published September 16, 2024 in Tax Analysts Tax Notes State, MTC National Nexus Program Director Richard Cram examines the South Dakota Supreme Courtʹs decision in Ellingson Drainage upholding the Department’s...
TCJA Effects on State Taxes
In this article recently published in Tax Notes State, MTC Senior Counsel Bruce Fort argues that the states need to re-evaluate their policies regarding conformity to the TCJA to ensure that domestic and multinational companies are being taxed on an equal basis....
MTC Letter to California OTA on Microsoft Case
On May 23, 2024, MTC Executive Director Greg Matson submitted a letter asking the OTA not to make their ruling precedential and explaining that the MTC agrees with the FTB that the result does not fairly reflect California’s share of Microsoft’s income. View...
80/20 Exclusion Is a Bad Idea for States
Pepsi Tax Case Shows Why 80/20 Exclusion Is a Bad Idea for States In this article, Senior Counsel Bruce Fort explains how the use of the “80/20” company exclusion from several states’ water’s edge combined filing group enables taxpayers to shift domestic income to...
MTC Files Amicus Brief in Health Net v. Oregon Dep’t of Revenue
On June 16, the MTC filed an amicus brief in Health Net, which is currently pending in the Oregon Supreme Court on direct appeal from Oregon's Tax Court. The case arises out of the same issue as Gillette: whether the state must allow the taxpayer to use the income...
DMA v. Brohl—Is It Time to Stop Fighting the Last War?
Helen Hecht and Lila Disque of the MTC propose that rather than continuing the battle to persuade Congress or the Supreme Court to remove restraints on the states’ existing tax collection mechanism, states might consider an alternative mechanism that makes use of...
DMA and the Overture to Overturn Quill
Helen Hecht and Lila Disque of the MTC consider Justice Kennedy’s concurrence in the Direct Marketing Association case inviting states to bring a challenge to Quill, and the general problems in mounting such a test case. The article also discusses what Justice...
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