The Nebraska Supreme Court upheld a lower court decision that a couple, partial owners of large trucking company, failed to prove that they changed their domicile from Nebraska to Florida for income tax purposes from 2010 to 2014. The taxpayers argued that they had changed their domicile to Florida, asserting that they had acquired a
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5 proof of domicile takeaways from Calif. Tax Appeals ruling
A recent significant precedential and unanimous decision by the California Office of Tax Appeals, Matter of the Appeal of Beckwith, provided more guidance on how to determine California domicile and residency for state personal income tax purposes.
In his article for Law360, Eversheds Sutherland Senior Counsel Eric Coffill provides five domicile takeaways and…
Pass/Fail: Evaluating the test for D.C. statutory residency
The District of Columbia occupies a unique position among subnational jurisdictions in the United States given its status as a nonstate, federal enclave. The District’s status allows it to impose individual income tax on only residents under the district clause of the US Constitution, the Home Rule Act of 1973, and implementing statutes that are…
D.C. Attorney General pursues False Claims Act case in individual income tax matter
On August 31, 2022, the D.C. Attorney General Karl Racine announced that his office was pursuing an action against an individual, Michael Saylor, for allegedly owing individual income tax to the District as a resident under a “fraudulent scheme.” The Attorney General is also pursuing a violation of the False Claims Act related to his…
New York finds taxpayers’ evidence to establish new domicile is insufficient
The New York State Tax Appeals Tribunal affirmed an Administrative Law Judge determination that two taxpayers remained New York residents because the taxpayers did not establish that they had changed their domicile to Florida during the relevant tax years. Because the taxpayers spent “more than 30 but less than 184 days in New York,” the…
Kansas Supreme Court holds pizza restaurant franchisee was a Florida domiciliary
On May 20, 2022, the Kansas Supreme Court ruled that a taxpayer had met his burden of demonstrating that he had changed his domicile from Kansas to Florida. If he were deemed a resident of Kansas, he would have owed over $42 million of back taxes, interest, and penalties, in part from the sale of…
Taxpayers buck the domicile presumption – Utah Supreme Court rules they are nonresidents
The Utah Supreme Court ruled for taxpayers John and Brooke Buck, finding they were not domiciled in Utah during tax year 2012. The Court held that the State Tax Commission had incorrectly applied Utah’s statutory domicile presumption that attaches when a taxpayer claims a residential exemption for property tax purposes. As addressed in more detail…
What makes a California resident?
In this episode of the SALT Shaker Podcast, host and Eversheds Sutherland Associate Jeremy Gove discusses the ins and outs of California residency with Partner Tim Gustafson. They outline the various tests used in determining residency for California income tax purposes and identify common pitfalls for individuals who are considering a move out of…
Breaking domicile is hard to do: Arkansas OHA holds couple did not abandon Arkansas domicile
In a decision dated January 18, 2022, the Arkansas Office of Hearings and Appeals (OHA) held that a married couple remained domiciled in and residents of Arkansas for individual income tax purposes for the 2013 through 2018 tax years, rejecting the couple’s assertion that they had abandoned their Arkansas domicile by relocating to another state.…
Hell (and tax residency) hath no fury: DC Court of Appeals upholds tax evasion conviction in residency dispute
In a personal income tax residency decision that involves a fair amount of schadenfreude, the District of Columbia Court of Appeals affirmed a criminal tax evasion conviction of a District domiciliary and denied a motion to suppress documents obtained through extensive summonses issued by the Office of Tax and Revenue.
For background, the taxpayer filed…