Legislation ( S.302 ) was prefiled in the New York State Senate for the 2021-2022 legislative session that would expand the sales tax base to digital advertising services. The bill was prefiled by Democratic State Senator Kevin Thomas . The bill defines... Read More
On December 18, SB 50 was filed in the Florida Senate which would require sales tax collection from a person whose remote sales to Florida exceed $100,000 per year. It states that a person whose “taxable remote sales in the previous calendar year” exceed... Read More
On December 1, 2020, the Colorado Department of Revenue adopted amendments to its tangible personal property rule – Rule 39-26-102(15) – that will impose sales tax on sales of streaming digital goods. The Department considers these amendments to be a... Read More
The California Department of Tax and Fee Administration has informed the public that it intends to commence formal rulemaking to permanently adopt Emergency Sales and Use Tax Regulation 1684.5, Marketplace Sales . The regulation addresses issues regarding... Read More
A Missouri legislator pre-filed House Bill No. 244 , which would require, beginning January 1, 2022, use tax nexus for remote vendors if their cumulative gross receipts from sales of tangible personal property, digital goods, and services to purchasers... Read More
Companion bills recently introduced in New York State ( A. 11180 and S. 9112 ) would impose a temporary tax on businesses that provide broadband internet access service. Revenues generated from the tax would be earmarked to fund the provision of broadband... Read More
On December 18th, the three-member Board of the Franchise Tax Board (FTB) will hold its final quarterly meeting of 2020. At the meeting, the Board will consider the 2021 Rulemaking Calendar . The Calendar contains the agency’s schedules for its administrative... Read More
On December 1, 2020, the Tennessee Department of Revenue announced that the filing and threshold requirements for marketplace facilitators and sellers established in Senate Bill No. 2932 – effective October 1, 2020 – do not apply for purposes of the business... Read More
On December 9, Eversheds Sutherland SALT lawyers will present a “ SALT Survival Guide ” as part of the TEI New York Chapter’s 57th Annual Tax Symposium , held virtually this year. Presentation topics include: Jeff Friedman and Nikki Dobay – Issues... Read More
During the November 17 th D.C. Council meetings, the Council marked-up the False Claims Amendment Act of 2020 and passed it on first reading by an 8-5 vote. The bill now moves to second – and final – reading as soon as December 1 st . If passed, the... Read More
Two significant tax ballot measures were on the ballot for voters in the Portland area this Election Day. Here’s a look at what measures passed and which ones failed. Failed. The Portland Metro Council Measure 26-218 proposed authorizing a payroll... Read More
On September 29, 2020, Governor Philip Murphy signed A. 4721, the bill extending and retroactively increasing New Jersey’s Corporation Business Tax (“CBT”) surtax. Instead of eliminating the surtax after December 31, 2021, as was previously scheduled... Read More
The December 31, 2012 sunset date for the estate tax, as provided by the Tax Relief, Unemployment Insurance Reauthorization, and Job Creation Act of 2010, is once again quickly approaching, and in typical fashion there is a divide over what the fate of... Read More
The activist-led movement to increase multinational tax disclosure is proving to be a full-employment program for natural resource industry lobbyists. The money and energy available for fighting against transparency seems limitless. We have seen the effects... Read More
Emphatically, no. I just absolutely disagree with Fareed Zakaria on this , as I do with anyone who thinks that the measure of a tax system is the shortness of its tax code. We live in a complex and intricate world, in which transacting involves complex... Read More