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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...
MTC Files Brief in Comptroller of Maryland v. Wynne
On August 5, 2014, the Commission filed an amicus brief with the U.S. Supreme Court in Comptroller of Maryland v. Wynne, arguing that Maryland should not be required to provide a credit for taxes paid by residents to other states against the tax those residents owe...
C. A. Daw Recipient of the 2014 Paull Mines Award
Michael T. Fatale Receives 2012 Paull Mines Award Michael T. Fatale, Chief, Rulings & Regulations Bureau, Massachusetts Department of Revenue, was awarded the Paull Mines Award for Outstanding Contribution to State Tax Jurisprudence at the annual meeting of...
MTC Files Amicus Brief with Commissioner v. Associated Bank
On July 20, 2017, the MTC filed an amicus brief in Commissioner v. Associated Bank, a case pending before the Minnesota Supreme Court. The MTC supported Minnesota’s contention that, because the income in question was generated entirely by the activities of the...
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