Kim Robinson was featured today in the Law360 article series entitled Minority Powerbrokers Q&A. In the article, Kim, a partner in Jones Walker’s Baton Rouge office, shared her insight and advice regarding her path to success in the legal field and her experience in the practice of law as a woman and a person
Jay Adams Discusses New “Local” Louisiana Board of Tax Appeals and Possible Procedural Traps
In the above video, Jones Walker SALT partner Jay Adams explains a few highlights from recent Louisiana legislation regarding the new “local” Board of Tax Appeals (BTA) available to taxpayers for matters involving local sales/use tax assessments and refund claims, as well as possible new traps for taxpayers relating to appeals of local sales/use
JW SALT Partners Backstrom and Fletcher Quoted in Recent Articles
Bill Backstrom was recently quoted in a Law360 article entitled State Tax Cases to Watch in 2015. In the article, Bill, a partner in Jones Walker’s New Orleans office and the Tax & Estates practice group leader, discusses the need for clarity in tax reporting positions following the decision in Vodafone Americas Holdings Inc.
Louisiana Supreme Court Flushes Court of Appeal’s Pot-O-Gold Decision and Limits Scope of “Gross Proceeds” in Lease Tax Case
In our prior post on the case of Pot-O-Gold Rentals, LLC v. City of Baton Rouge, we noted that we were hoping the Louisiana Supreme Court would hear this case in order to “clean up the mess” regarding the reach of the Louisiana lease tax and the scope of taxable “gross proceeds” (a term