Shaking things up in state and local tax
Shaking things up in state and local tax
On April 1, 2019, the Arkansas Office of Hearings and Appeals held that a taxpayer could not deduct interest expense for long-term debt used to finance a cash dividend as a non-business expense allocable to Arkansas because there was no corresponding non-business income allocable to the state.
The taxpayer was a corporation based in Arkansas…
On June 13, 2018, an Arkansas Administrative Law Judge concluded that a taxpayer’s proceeds from dispositions of tax credits were apportionable business income. In Arkansas, business income arises from either: (1) transactions and activity in the regular course of the taxpayer’s business (the transactional test); or (2) income from the acquisition, management and disposition of…
By Madison Barnett and Stephanie Do
Many foreign companies are surprised to learn that US states are not generally bound by income tax treaties entered into by the US with foreign countries. Under these treaties, for US federal income tax purposes, certain non-US corporations and residents of foreign countries may be exempt from tax or…
By Chris Mehrmann and Carley Roberts
An administrative law judge (ALJ) of the Arkansas Department of Finance and Administration upheld the denial of a taxpayer’s corporate income tax refund claim, after the taxpayer attempted to amend its returns to apply the cost of performance method of sourcing income. Arkansas has adopted section 18 of the…
By Stephen Burroughs and Scott Wright
The Supreme Court of Arkansas recently upheld use tax assessments imposed upon a contractor that purchased and installed equipment used in a water treatment facility expansion. Arkansas exempts from sales and use tax purchases of machinery and equipment used to create or expand a manufacturing or processing facility in…
