
Our favorite day of the year is when our team brings in king cakes from some of the great bakeries around New Orleans! We hope you have a happy and safe Mardi Gras! Laissez les bon temps rouler!
Key Ingredients Impacting State & Local Tax Issues

Our favorite day of the year is when our team brings in king cakes from some of the great bakeries around New Orleans! We hope you have a happy and safe Mardi Gras! Laissez les bon temps rouler!
Alysse McLoughlin, a partner on the JW SALT team in the New York office, spoke at the Wall Street Tax Association’s 2022 Fall Tax Conference on November 22, at the New York Marriott Marquis. Alysse spoke on the “State and Local Taxation Panel” regarding an update on draft regulations and other trends in New…
Join Jones Walker SALT Team partners Bill Backstrom and Alysse McLoughlin at the 29th Annual Paul J. Hartman State & Local Tax Forum on October 19-21, 2022 in Nashville!
Bill will speak on the panel “The New Frontier in Mergers and Acquisitions”, which will cover unique issues on diligence, discuss how to navigate the role…
Jones Walker SALT partner, John Fletcher, was quoted in the article “Calif. Pork Law Fight May Guide Post-Wayfair Tax Challenges,” published by Law360 on October 14, 2022. The article covers an ongoing US Supreme Court Case regarding interstate commerce, previous tax litigation, and whether California’s importation of pork from other states violates…

Thank you again to the folks at the Louisiana Department of Revenue for participating in our annual State & Local Tax Seminar in Houston, TX. Looking forward to next year!

Jones Walker SALT Team members Jay Adams, Jeff Birdsong, Cami Fergus, John Fletcher, Matt Mantle, and Alysse McLoughlin attended and spoke at the 2022 Institute for Professionals in Taxation (IPT) Sales Tax Symposium in Boston, MA. The Institute, founded in 1976, is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit educational association serving more than 6,000 members…
At the Supreme Court early with my great friend Pat Reynolds of COST. Following National Pork Producers case, will it be a sleeper SALT case? Will Pike balancing test be toast? Is the dormant Commerce Clause really a “dead letter”? Looking forward to watching my first oral arguments.

We would like to thank Jennifer Burleson – Director, Tax Policy Division, Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts, Mary Martin Mitchell – Acting Director, Tax Policy and Governmental Affairs Division, Alabama Department of Revenue, Arthur Parham – Retired General Tax Advisor, Entergy, and Kevin Richard, Secretary, Louisiana Department of Revenue for being our luncheon…

Partner Andre Burvant, a member of the firm’s state and local tax team, will serve as a panelist at the upcoming Council On State Taxation (COST) 2022 Tax Property Workshop on September 13 in Denver, Colorado. Andre will offer his perspective on the future of property tax litigation for the rest of 2022 and…

Bill Backstrom, partner and leader of the firm’s Tax Practice Group, will present on a panel discussing state and local tax incentives and programs at the upcoming Council On State Taxation (COST) 2022 Tax Property Workshop on September 14 in Denver, Colorado.