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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.

While state and local governments have ended or relaxed mandatory work-from-home orders and are trying to bring back the in-person workforce, some employees remain hesitant to return to in-office work for numerous reasons. This trend may result in unanticipated tax obligations for employers and employees because many of the pandemic-related hold-harmless protections from withholding and…

On a recent episode of Tax Notes Talk, a weekly podcast of cutting-edge developments in tax from Tax Notes, Eversheds Sutherland Partner Nikki Dobay discusses the SALT cap workarounds for passthrough entities that many states have adopted, and possible coming developments for those policies.

On August 17, 2021, the Multistate Tax Commission (MTC) held its first meeting of the State Taxation of Partnerships Project (the Partnership Project), during which the work group discussed a draft outline of partnership issues. The Partnership Project is being chaired by Laurie McEhatton (California Franchise Tax Board) and staffed by Helen Hecht (General Counsel…

In their article for the July-August issue of Tax Executive, Eversheds Sutherland attorneys Jeff Friedman, Todd Lard and Justin Brown discuss the Tax Injunction Act (TIA), specifically justifications for modernizing the TIA, including highlighting issues that the TIA has created and the legal and business changes that have taken place since 1937, when Congress…

On June 15, 2021, the Multistate Tax Commission (“MTC”) held its first meeting to discuss the “Project on State Taxation of Partnerships.” The work group intends to focus on the “underdeveloped” state partnership tax rules and provide guidance and structure in the state partnership taxation realm.

During the first meeting, the work group focused on…