The Virginia Supreme Court held that the use of the cost-of-performance method to apportion nearly 100% of the taxpayer’s sales of services to Virginia did not violate the U.S. Constitution, even though over 95% of the taxpayer’s customers were located... Read More

The New Jersey Tax Court ruled that a corporation was entitled to apportion its corporate income based on a “regular place of business” outside of New Jersey. This now-repealed apportionment requirement was the source of several New Jersey Tax Court cases... Read More

The State of New Mexico Administrative Hearings Office held that the New Mexico Taxation and Revenue Department could not remove the payroll factor from the apportionment factor calculation of a taxpayer in the credit card and personal lending business... Read More

The New Jersey Tax Court upheld the New Jersey Division of Taxation’s use of the 25/50/25 sourcing rule for “certain services” against a provider of mass messaging services by fax, email and voice. Specifically, the court upheld the Division’s determination... Read More

The Minnesota Supreme Court held that the state’s standard apportionment method did not fairly reflect the taxpayer’s net income allocable to the state, reversing the Tax Court’s ruling. The taxpayer, a national financial institution, transferred its... Read More

On June 13, 2018, an Arkansas Administrative Law Judge concluded that a taxpayer’s proceeds from dispositions of tax credits were apportionable business income. In Arkansas, business income arises from either: (1) transactions and activity in the regular... Read More

In another of the so-called “Compact” cases, the Oregon Supreme Court affirmed the decision of the Oregon Tax Court and held that: (1) the 1967 Oregon Legislature, in enacting Oregon Statute Section 305.655, did not clearly and unmistakably intend for... Read More

On May 14, 2018, Indiana Governor Eric Holcomb signed into law H.B 1316 (the Bill). The Bill provides a number of changes to Indiana’s tax laws, including responding to provisions of the federal Tax Cuts and Jobs Act. Some notable provisions of the Bill... Read More

It is more complicated to determine an in-state sale regarding the provision of multistate services or licenses of intangibles. Historically, states looked to a taxpayer’s costs of performing the service or licensing the intangible. Some states have become... Read More

On April 24, Maryland Governor Larry Hogan signed Senate Bill 1090 and House Bill 1794, which adds Maryland to the growing list of states that are moving towards a single sales factor formula to apportion corporate net income. Under prior Maryland law... Read More

The murky waters of state taxation, now characterized by single-sales-factor apportionment and economic nexus trends, continue to plague corner office decision-makers and the practitioners who counsel them. [See "Experts: Economic Nexus and Single... Read More

A Florida taxpayer was engaged in three types of hedging activity: (1) hedges on materials related to its inputs; (2) hedges related to the commodity it sells; and (3) hedges unrelated to items it purchases or sells. In deciding whether the hedging revenue... Read More

A common aspect of consolidated groups of companies is a centralized cash management function. While such a structure is a common item in corporate America, states are increasingly challenging any perceived tax benefits of such structures. Two states... Read More

A common aspect of consolidated groups of companies is a centralized cash management function. While such a structure is a common item in corporate America, states are increasingly challenging any perceived tax benefits of such structures. Two states... Read More

A Florida taxpayer was engaged in three types of hedging activity: (1) hedges on materials related to its inputs; (2) hedges related to the commodity it sells; and (3) hedges unrelated to items it purchases or sells. In deciding whether the hedging revenue... Read More