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In this installment of A Pinch of SALT for Tax Notes State, Eversheds Sutherland attorneys Eric Coffill and Annie Rothschild review the Franchise Tax Board’s proposed amendments to California’s market-based sourcing regulation, including its conception and eight important changes to watch as it moves through the approval process.

Read the full article here.

Residency/domicile is a critical issue in a state-tax analysis because, as a general principle, a state taxes its own residents on all their income from whatever sources it is derived (typically with a credit mechanism for some or all tax paid to another state on that same income). However, regardless of residency and regardless of

The California Legislature adjourned on September 10 and ended the 2021 legislative session without passing any major tax increase bills during the session. Several proposals were under consideration during the early part of the session, but were not revived before adjournment.

In his article for Financial Advisor Magazine, Senior Counsel Eric Coffill describes important

This installment of “Behind the Board,” which highlights the milestones, challenges, and lessons of Tax Notes State’s advisory board, focuses on Senior Counsel Eric Coffill.

Read more about Eric’s career and reflections here.

In a world and state already riddled with uncertainty, California holds a recall election. Through it all, however, taxes remain a constant.

On September 15, join Eversheds Sutherland attorneys Tim Gustafson and Eric Coffill as they cover key tax events that occurred in California during the first three quarters of 2021 and how the recall

A three-judge panel of California’s Office of Tax Appeals (“OTA”) issued a precedential decision ruling that taxpayers remained domiciled in and residents of California at the time they sold their aviation business despite renting an apartment in Nevada prior to purchasing a home in the same area.

At the time of the sale, the taxpayers

On May 17, 2021, the New York Tax Appeals Tribunal (Tribunal) held that when determining whether a New York C corporation must mandatorily elect to be treated as an S corporation as a result of the investment ratio test provided by New York Tax Law § 660(i), such test requires that “federal gross income” adopt

AB 71 was introduced earlier this year (see our prior coverage here) to provide additional state funding for homelessness programs, derived – in part – from increasing taxes on business income. In March, AB 71 was amended to eliminate steep corporate tax increases. The bill as amended, however, still would require corporate taxpayers that