This is the first edition of the Eversheds Sutherland SALT Scoreboard for 2022. Since 2016, we have tallied the results of significant taxpayer wins and losses and analyzed those results.
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The Maryland Court of Appeals held that a for-profit company’s purchases for non-profit hospitals were subject to Maryland’s sales and use tax because there was no agency relationship between the company and the hospitals, and even if an agency relationship existed, that alone would not entitle the for-profit company to an exemption.
Johns Hopkins Health
The Minnesota Tax Court ruled that the federal Anti-Head Tax Act (AHTA) preempts using Alaska Airlines’ gross receipts when calculating the Minnesota Franchise Tax Minimum Fee. The AHTA prohibits states from taxing gross receipts from air commerce or transportation. Minnesota’s Minimum Fee, imposed on taxpayers exercising a corporate franchise in the state, is calculated based
The Colorado Court of Appeals held that sales tax bad debt credits may not be claimed by a financial company that issued private label credit cards. As a private label retail credit card issuer, Capital One financed purchases made by its cardholders. Under the terms of its agreements with retailers, Capital One financed purchases made
This is the fourth edition of the Eversheds Sutherland SALT Scoreboard for 2021. Since 2016, we have tallied the results of significant taxpayer wins and losses and analyzed those results.
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2021 will be remembered for many reasons: the continuation of the pandemic, the commercialization of space travel, and the rise of meme stocks among others. 2021 also will be remembered for the frenetic pace of state tax developments. The Eversheds Sutherland SALT team was kept busy tracking and summarizing state and local tax developments –
The Louisiana Court of Appeal, Second Circuit ruled that a city franchise fee imposed on a telecommunications company was discriminatory in violation of the federal Telecommunications Act of 1996 (the “Act”) where the fee was charged to a taxpayer pursuant to a bilateral contract but not charged to the taxpayer’s competitor.
The city brought a
This is the third edition of the Eversheds Sutherland SALT Scoreboard for 2021. Since 2016, we have tallied the results of significant taxpayer wins and losses and analyzed those results.
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The Ohio Supreme Court recently held that Cincinnati’s billboard excise tax is unconstitutional because the tax violated the First Amendment of the United States Constitution, finding that Cincinnati’s need to raise revenue by imposing the tax solely on a small number of billboard operators did not survive strict scrutiny.
In 2018, the Cincinnati City Council
This is the second edition of the Eversheds Sutherland SALT Scoreboard for 2021. Since 2016, we have tallied the results of significant taxpayer wins and losses and analyzed those results.
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