Approximately 34 states require market sourcing to source sales of other than tangible personal property. Many states adopted market-sourcing rules in recent years and are only now beginning to finalize regulations regarding their implementation. A number of states have also adopted market-sourcing regulations attempting to provide additional clarity through more detailed rules.
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In this episode of the SALT Shaker Podcast, Eversheds Sutherland Associate Jeremy Gove breaks down the ‘affirmative’ Commerce Clause with Partner Eric Tresh. Eric recently authored an article in Tax Notes State on the topic with Partner Maria Todorova and Associate Fahad Mithavayani, which you can read here. 
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The principle of nondiscrimination plays a pivotal role in the field of state and local taxation. Discriminatory taxes are said to deter cross-border activity, distort competitive neutrality, and hinder economic efficiency by placing a thumb on the scale of the competitive marketplace. Recognizing these issues, federal and state governments have prohibited discrimination since the founding
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On February 2, the Multistate Tax Commission’s State Intercompany Transactions Advisory Service Committee (SITAS) held a public teleconference to address comments provided by Eversheds Sutherland and to schedule the first meeting of those states that have signed on to an Information Sharing Agreement (Agreement).
Eversheds Sutherland submitted a letter to the MTC Executive Committee in
The Massachusetts Appellate Tax Board found that software-as-a-service (SaaS) provider Akamai Technologies Inc. was a manufacturing corporation, rather than a service provider. Akamai, headquartered in Massachusetts, provided software-based cloud services allowing customers to manage the delivery of web and media content over the Internet. In Massachusetts, a manufacturing corporation must use single sales factor apportionment,
In this installment of A Pinch of SALT for Tax Notes State, Eversheds Sutherland attorneys Breen Schiller, Eric Tresh and Jeremy Gove explore the Illinois franchise tax and recommend that taxpayers reacquaint themselves with the mechanics of the tax to understand the potential pitfalls of various corporate transactions.
In this episode of the SALT Shaker Podcast, new host and Eversheds Sutherland Associate Jeremy Gove is joined by colleagues and Eversheds Sutherland Partners Nikki Dobay and Eric Tresh to discuss declaratory judgments as a potential tool to obtain certainty on state tax matters. A recent Alaska Supreme Court decision highlights the limitations of the
Sales taxes are imposed by all but five states. While the types of sales that are subject to tax vary significantly by state, virtually all sales tax states look to the actual consideration paid by the buyer to the seller to determine the sales price. Despite this long-standing and almost uniform measure of the sales
