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On March 24, the Georgia General Assembly passed House Bill 960, which would adjust the statutory interest rate applicable to tax assessments and refunds and addresses other issues related to refund claims for Georgia sales and use taxes. H.B. 960 passed the legislature while the Georgia Department of Revenue continues to consider regulatory action that would …

On March 22nd, South Dakota Governor Daugaard signed into law Senate Bill 106, the passage of which may be the ultimate vehicle to challenge Quill at the U.S. Supreme Court. With landslide support in the South Dakota Senate and House of Representatives, S.B. 106 adopts an economic nexus standard for sales tax remittance and allows…

Over the last decade, multistate employers have witnessed a blizzard of state enforcement efforts of their nonresident withholding requirements. During that same time, large business tax departments have been snowed under by internal auditors’ questions of policies and procedures related to state nonresident withholding compliance. Even the U.S. Congress has shown an interest in plowing…

SACRAMENTO—Sutherland Asbill & Brennan LLP is pleased to announce that Eric J. Coffill has joined the firm’s 37-attorney State and Local Tax (SALT) practice. Prior to joining Sutherland’s Sacramento office, Mr. Coffill was the managing partner of Morrison & Foerster LLP’s Sacramento office.

Widely respected nationwide for his state tax counsel, Mr. Coffill has …