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The New York State Governor and Legislature recently enacted the 2014-2015 New York State Budget, Senate Bill 6359-D and Assembly Bill 8559-D (Budget), which results in the most significant overhaul of New York’s franchise tax on corporations in decades. In this edition of New York Tax Reform Made Easy, we will address the changes made to apportionment sourcing in computing a taxpayer’s apportionment factor.
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The Sutherland SALT Team will release commentary on the revamped New York State corporate tax system that was reformed as part of the recently enacted Budget Legislation (“Budget”). By way of background, Governor Andrew Cuomo signed into law the tax provisions of the Budget on March 31. The changes will affect nearly every New York…

By Madison Barnett and Andrew Appleby

The Florida Department of Revenue determined that a company providing television viewing data and analytics services must source its receipts from such services to the location of its customers, despite (1) the state’s majority costs of performance souring rule and (2) that the taxpayer appeared to incur the majority…

By Todd Betor and Andrew Appleby

The Chief Administrative Law Judge (ALJ) of the New York City Tax Appeals Tribunal ruled that The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc., may source its receipts from Standard & Poor’s (S&P) public credit rating business using an audience-based method. The ALJ first determined that S&P’s ratings receipts are “other business receipts&rdquo…

By Sahang-Hee Hahn and Pilar Mata

The Texas Comptroller has amended its regulation governing the sales tax treatment of cable television services. The revised regulation defines for the first time several terms related to the cable television services industry; adopts a destination-based sourcing rule for intrastate sales of streaming video; and taxes “bundled cable services.&rdquo…

By Madison Barnett and Timothy Gustafson

The Michigan Court of Appeals held that a provider of event planning and coordination services presented sufficient evidence to support its costs of performance sales factor sourcing method, under which it sourced services receipts to the location where the event occurred. Over the Department’s arguments that the taxpayer failed…

By Sahang-Hee Hahn and Andrew Appleby

The California Franchise Tax Board amended its regulation governing the sourcing of sales of tangible personal property to reflect California’s statutory shift in 2009 to the Finnigan rule, effective for tax years beginning on or after January 1, 2011. As amended, the regulation assigns receipts from sales of tangible…

By Madison Barnett and Jonathan Feldman

The Illinois Supreme Court held that Illinois’ local Retailers’ Occupation Tax (ROT) sourcing regulations—which applied a bright-line test to assign sales to the location where the purchase order was accepted—were not supported by the controlling tax imposition statutes and thus were invalid. The taxpayer, like many others in Illinois, established…

By Stephen Burroughs and Timothy Gustafson

The Texas Comptroller determined that receipts received for the delivery of satellite programming to Texas subscribers should be sourced to the site of the subscriber’s set-top box for apportionment purposes. The taxpayer provides direct broadcast satellite television programming to subscribers in Texas and across the United States. For the…

By Zachary Atkins and Pilar Mata

The Colorado Department of Revenue issued a private letter ruling permitting a financial institution to deviate from Colorado’s special industry rules and use an alternative method of apportionment for corporate income tax purposes. The taxpayer, a savings and loan holding company with subsidiaries separately engaged in broker-dealer and banking…