The New York Division of Tax Appeals determined that the taxpayer’s sale of a document management services was a taxable sale of software. While the taxpayer argued that its service was a nontaxable, cloud-based platform-as-a-service, the ALJ disagreed. Instead, the ALJ concluded that the taxpayer’s software was the “core element” of the platform, and customers

The New York Appellate Division, Third Department recently held that a group of taxpayer-plaintiffs were not required to exhaust administrative remedies before commencing an action to declare their services were exempt from sales tax, even though they had not challenged their audit determinations before the New York State Tax Appeals Tribunal. 

Ordinarily, taxpayers in New

The New York Tax Appeals Tribunal affirmed a Division of Tax Appeals (DTA) ruling, holding that deferred compensation earned by a partnership should be allocated to New York based on the business allocation percentage (BAP) from the year in which the services were performed, rather than the year in which the deferred income was recognized.

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