Shaking things up in state and local tax
Shaking things up in state and local tax
By Sahang-Hee Hahn and Andrew Appleby
Effective September 1, 2013, Texas will refund state sales and use taxes paid by providers of cable television, Internet access or telecommunications services on tangible personal property used in their businesses. On June 14, 2013, Governor Rick Perry signed H.B. 1133 into law, authorizing such refunds. Under the new…
During the Multistate Tax Commission’s Annual Conference and Committee Meetings in San Diego on July 22, 2013, the Income and Franchise Tax Uniformity Subcommittee discussed its effort to redesign the financial institution apportionment rules. In addition, the Sales and Use Tax Uniformity Subcommittee will move forward in drafting a model nexus statute.
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By Madison Barnett and Timothy Gustafson
The Tennessee Department of Revenue announced that the existing opportunity to compromise prior year liabilities related to the disallowance of certain intangible expense deductions will be closing on September 30, 2013. For several years, Tennessee has been issuing wide-scale assessments—using the Department’s discretionary authority—to taxpayers that deducted intangible expenses…
As part of its implementation of mandatory combined reporting, the District of Columbia’s Office of Tax and Revenue issued a taxpayer-friendly proposed regulation that would provide an automatic seven-month extension for calendar and fiscal year taxpayers.
For more details, read our legal alert, “D.C. Proposes to Extend Deadline for Combined Reports“
The Streamlined Sales Tax Governing Board, as well as its State and Local Advisory Council and Business Advisory Council, assembled in Minneapolis this week to discuss a number of policy matters related to Streamlined Sales and Use Tax Agreement. The overarching theme, however, was the continued viability of the Agreement in light of the Marketplace…
We invite you to read all of our articles from April 2013 here on our website, or read each article by clicking on the title. If you prefer, you may also view a printable PDF version.
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The Multistate Tax Commission’s Financial Institutions Working Group held its monthly meeting on April 23, 2013 to discuss a proposed apportionment formula for financial institutions. For additional details about the meeting, read our legal alert, “Hate the Sin, Love the Sinner: MTC’s Financial Institution Apportionment Effort.”
We hope you enjoy this very special edition of the Sutherland SALT Shaker newsletter. In this issue:
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As March comes to a close, we invite you to read all of our articles from the past month here on our website, or read each article by clicking on the title. If you prefer, you may also view a printable PDF version.
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On March 28, 2013, the New York State Legislature passed budget legislation (S.2609D/A.3009D) that replaces the existing New York State and City related-party royalty add-back requirements with provisions based on the Multistate Tax Commission’s model add-back statute. In addition, the legislation repeals the New York State and City royalty income exclusions, which permitted taxpayers to…
