On November 18, 2024, the New York Tax Appeals Tribunal (TAT) determined that Sunoco, Inc. (R&M) Combined Affiliates (Sunoco) was not entitled to include receipts from buy/sell agreements in its New York receipts factor because they were derived from inventory exchanges, not bona fide sales for monetary consideration.

Sunoco refined and marketed oil, and entered

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

The New York State Division of Tax Appeals determined that income from the vesting of restricted stock units of a nonresident taxpayer were subject to New York State personal income tax based on the taxpayer’s performance of services in New York during the restricted stock units’ vesting period. The Tribunal also determined that dividends on

New York continues to closely review the application of state sales tax to services performed using software platforms. 

Recently, two May decisions by the New York Tax Appeals Tribunal and the New York Division of Tax Appeals affirmed the Division of Taxation’s decision to tax service providers for the sales of prewritten computer software in

The New York Tax Appeals Tribunal held that a company’s fees related to sales of its labor procurement system were taxable sales of pre-written software.

Taxpayer, Beeline.com Inc., provides services to assist customers in gathering, organizing, managing and assembling their contingent labor force. As part of its service contracts, taxpayer grants its customers license to

A New York appellate court denied a motor fuel distributor’s (Distributor) motor fuel excise tax refund request on motor fuel brought into the state and delivered to a fuel refiner, marketer, and transporter (Marketer) “pursuant to an exchange agreement … whereby either company was permitted to remove fuel product from the terminal of its counterpart