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Credits: Cure for Use Tax Apportionment
Ellingson Drainage v. South Dakota - In this article published September 16, 2024 in Tax Analysts Tax Notes State, MTC National Nexus Program Director Richard Cram examines the South Dakota Supreme Courtʹs decision in Ellingson Drainage upholding the Department’s...
TCJA Effects on State Taxes
In this article recently published in Tax Notes State, MTC Senior Counsel Bruce Fort argues that the states need to re-evaluate their policies regarding conformity to the TCJA to ensure that domestic and multinational companies are being taxed on an equal basis....
MTC Letter to California OTA on Microsoft Case
On May 23, 2024, MTC Executive Director Greg Matson submitted a letter asking the OTA not to make their ruling precedential and explaining that the MTC agrees with the FTB that the result does not fairly reflect California’s share of Microsoft’s income. View...
80/20 Exclusion Is a Bad Idea for States
Pepsi Tax Case Shows Why 80/20 Exclusion Is a Bad Idea for States In this article, Senior Counsel Bruce Fort explains how the use of the “80/20” company exclusion from several states’ water’s edge combined filing group enables taxpayers to shift domestic income to...
A Tale of Two Cities
Bruce Fort is Senior Counsel to the Multistate Tax Commission. In this A Tale of Two Cities (PDF) article, originally published in Law 360’s State and Local newsletter on March 28 and 29, 2023, Fort describes two recent appellate decisions that took very different...
A Conversation with Greg Matson—Executive Director of the Multistate Tax Commission
In her regular column, KPMG Corner, for the May 2016 edition of the Journal of Multistate Taxation and Incentives ( Thomson Reuters/Tax & Accounting), Shirley Sicilian, managing director in the State and Local Tax group of the Washington National Tax...
MTC is featured in State Tax Notes
State Tax Notes recognizes the Multistate Tax Commission for its influence on state tax policy and practice in 2015. "The MTC had a blockbuster year, despite having a full plate and a thin staff," said University of Connecticut law professor Richard Pomp, State Tax...
California Supreme Court Vindicates California and Commission in Gillette
On December 31, 2015, the California Supreme Court ruled unanimously that California was not barred from disabling the corporate income tax apportionment election contained in Article III of the Multistate Tax Compact and mandating that all taxpayers apportion...
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