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In this installment of “A Pinch of SALT,” published by Tax Notes State, Eversheds Sutherland attorneys Charlie Kearns, Cyavash Ahmadi and Constance Chien examine different state approaches to exempting digital inputs, including uniformity efforts in the Streamlined Sales and Use Tax Agreement and under review by the Multistate Tax Commission. They also highlight states…

There is a lot of uncertainty around state tax penalties. The standards are murky because the authority to impose penalties often turns on whether a taxpayer exercised “ordinary business care” or had “reasonable cause” for its tax positions. And while many states use similar standards, courts interpret them differently.

Taxpayers are in a tough spot…

Beginning in 2026, Georgia will have a new judicial branch tax court, replacing the existing Georgia Tax Tribunal, which currently operates within the executive branch.

In this installment of “A Pinch of SALT” published in Tax Notes State, Eversheds Sutherland attorneys Jonathan Feldman, Scott Wright, and Alla Raykin outline the benefits the new Georgia…

For decades, the sales factor has been a primary focus of state and local tax articles and a hot topic of discussion at conferences across the country, and the attention is well deserved. There has been no shortage of impactful legislative changes, interesting administrative rulings, and significant (and at times frustrating) judicial decisions regarding the…

The California Franchise Tax Board’s method of taxing banks and financial institutions is consistently complex, and a bit messy. This complexity would worsen under the January budget proposal of California Governor Gavin Newsom to tax banks (and savings and loans) using single-sales-factor apportionment.

In this installment of “A Pinch of SALT” published by Tax Notes…

Midway through 2024, and without any notice, the California Franchise Tax Board (FTB) pulled all Technical Advice Memorandums from its website. Overnight, decades of responses by the FTB’s Legal Division to FTB staff requests regarding the interpretation of existing tax law or the application of existing tax law to a specific set of facts literally…

In this article, originally published by CalCPA in the January/February 2025 issue of California CPA, Eversheds Sutherland Senior Counsel Eric Coffill spotlights the recent disappearance of Technical Advice Memorandums (TAMs) from the California Franchise Tax Board (FTB) website.

Read the full article here.