In Department of Taxation v. FJ Management, Inc., the Virginia Court of Appeals recently concluded that the apportionment factors of a partnership in which a taxpayer held a minority interest could not flow up to the partner because there was no unitary relationship between the partner and the partnership. As state scrutiny over apportionment
In Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo, the US Supreme Court overturned the 40-year-old Chevron doctrine, which instructed courts to defer to any reasonable agency interpretation of an ambiguous law. This move has led many in the state and local tax community to consider the potential impact on state agencies authorized with administering
Multinational corporations have long battled the IRS and other nations’ taxing authorities over their transfer pricing arrangements.
But transfer pricing examinations and disputes at the state level can be even more challenging due to a lack of consistency and transparency, particularly in states that require entities conducting a unitary business to file separate
Reprinted from Tax Notes State, April 22, 2024
It’s hard to believe it’s been over five years since the Maryland Court of Special Appeals held in Staples Inc. that an out-of-state parent could be subject to tax in the state by virtue of royalty payments made by in-state related entities despite all intercompany transactions
Last week, South Carolina Governor McMaster signed into law Act No. 113 in a much needed reproach to the Department of Revenue’s aggressive attempts to undermine the state’s separate reporting regime for apportioning corporate income. While the law creates a new paradigm for how and in what manner the state or taxpayer may obtain alternative
With the fifth anniversary of Wayfair last week, the fallout from that case has been a hot topic recently. One day before the anniversary, the U.S. Supreme Court issued an order denying cert in Quad Graphics Inc. v. North Carolina Department of Revenue, signaling what will likely be a long hiatus for the Supreme
The very first “courtroom” I ever entered as a newly minted lawyer was at the Chicago Administration Hearings Department at 400 W. Superior Street. That case, if I recall correctly, was about the city’s Real Property Transfer Tax and what portion of the sales price in a particular transaction was attributable to the transfer of