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An Illinois appellate court held that a PepsiCo, Inc. subsidiary—Frito-Lay North America, Inc. (FLNA)—was not an 80/20 company excluded from PepsiCo’s unitary group. Illinois excludes 80/20 companies for the unitary group, where such companies have over 80% of their payroll and property from outside the United States. After a restructuring, PepsiCo created a single-member LLC

The Merrimack County Superior Court held that the carryback long-term capital losses of one member of a unitary combined group can be used to offset the long-term capital gains of a different member of the group for purposes of computing the group’s Business Profits Tax. The New Hampshire Department of Revenue Administration argued that the

The New York Tax Appeals Tribunal affirmed a Division of Tax Appeals (DTA) ruling, holding that deferred compensation earned by a partnership should be allocated to New York based on the business allocation percentage (BAP) from the year in which the services were performed, rather than the year in which the deferred income was recognized.

The New Jersey Tax Court determined that a New Jersey-based couple was not required to include Section 965 amounts in New Jersey income, as deemed repatriated dividends are not subject to the New Jersey Gross Income Tax (GIT), New Jersey’s personal income tax.

The taxpayers owned several interests in controlled foreign corporations (CFCs) and in

In his draft budget plan for Fiscal Year 2025-2026 released on January 10, 2025, California Governor Gavin Newsom proposed to bring financial institutions in line with most other corporate taxpayers when it comes to apportioning multistate income. Banks and “financial corporations” currently use a three-factor apportionment formula consisting of property, payroll and sales to apportion

The Arkansas Supreme Court held that a taxpayer’s interest expense is allocable to Arkansas resulting in a refund. This decision is an example of a taxpayer successfully arguing that it can fully deduct – rather than apportion – its interest expense in its state of commercial domicile. 

Arkansas adopted the Uniform Division of Income for

The New York Division of Tax Appeals (DTA) held that a taxpayer’s employment severance payment received over a year after her relocation out of the state was allocable to New York for personal income tax purposes.

The taxpayer worked for a school in New York for 11 years before going on sabbatical leave and moving