The Florida First District Court of Appeal held that Florida’s annual corporate income tax net operating loss (NOL) deduction limit is the same as the federal limit. Verizon Communications Inc. (Verizon) accumulated federal and state NOLs upon its 2006 acquisition of MCI, Inc. ($15 billion federal and $267 million Florida NOLs) and 2011 acquisition of
Legal Alert: Stricken by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court, the NOL deduction nevertheless is allowed
In General Motors Corporation v. Commonwealth, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court held that the state’s prior flat $2 million cap on a corporate taxpayer’s net operating loss (NOL) deduction violated the state constitution’s Uniformity Clause and, therefore, the state’s NOL deduction statute must be stricken in its entirety.1 Nevertheless, the Court determined that the…
Case closed: The New Jersey Tax Court rules NOL carryforwards were protected by the statute of limitations
On May 27, the New Jersey Tax Court held that the New Jersey Division of Taxation could not eliminate a taxpayer’s net operating losses generated during years beyond the statute of limitations. The division’s proposed reduction was based on a transfer pricing adjustment between related entities for years never audited by the division and otherwise…
Maryland Comptroller’s Limitations on NOLs Ruled Invalid
The Maryland Tax Court reversed the Comptroller’s disallowance of NOLs and essentially struck down a regulation that limited the usage of pre-nexus NOLs. The Comptroller disallowed the taxpayer’s use of NOLs accumulates by entities with no nexus in Maryland that subsequently merged into the taxpayer. The Comptroller relied on a regulation enacted in 2007 that…
Don’t Bank on It: South Carolina Administrative Law Court Holds Banks Not Allowed to Utilize NOL Carryforwards
The South Carolina Administrative Law Court found that the taxpayer bank could not deduct net operating loss (NOL) carryforwards when computing its bank tax liability. The taxpayer argued that banks should be allowed to deduct NOLs regardless of whether it is paying under the income or the franchise tax, because of the state’s conformity with…
Indiana Affirms Taxpayer’s Section 382 NOL Limitation Calculations
An Indiana taxpayer claimed net operation loss deductions (“NOLs”) on its adjusted gross income. The NOLs were acquired by the taxpayer as part of a corporate acquisition. The Indiana Department of Revenue did not dispute that the taxpayer was entitled to the NOLs, but limited the NOLs by an “asset ratio” based on the assets…