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
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Jones Walker Presents 6th Annual State & Local Tax Seminar in Houston, Texas

November 13, 2014
Hilton Americas-Houston
We hope you are hungry! The Jones Walker LLP State & Local Tax team is back with a day-long program on November 13, 2014, titled Cooking with SALT: Key Ingredients Impacting State & Local Tax Issues. The team will cook up some of your favorites in the morning,…
Welcome to the Jones Walker State & Local Tax Blog!
Welcome! If you are reading this, you likely have an interest in state and local taxation (“SALT”). As part of our ongoing efforts to inform clients, colleagues, associates and friends in as timely a manner as possible about current events involving the SALT world, we, the Jones Walker SALT Team, have started a blog.…
Backstrom and Adams Author Article for Oil & Gas Financial Journal
Bill Backstrom and Jay Adams, both partners in the firm’s Tax & Estates Practice Group in the New Orleans office, published an article in the Oil & Gas Financial Journal. In their article titled, “Energy Companies at Risk of Higher Taxes in Louisiana,” Bill and Jay explain that tax assessors in a number…
Jones Walker SALT Partners Discuss Louisiana Tax Issues for Energy Companies in the Houston Business Journal
Bill Backstrom and Jay Adams were quoted in an article published by the Houston Business Journal on June 11, 2014. The article titled, “Houston Energy Companies Could Be Hurt by Louisiana Taxes,” discusses how Houston energy companies are paying closer attention to Louisiana’s tax assessors’ plans to tax underground gas storage facilities in salt domes…