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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...
Fifty years of MTC Uniformity Efforts
Like uniformity itself, the efforts to achieve uniformity also serve a greater purpose. This article by Helen Hecht, MTC general counsel, explains why. Click here , to read the article, originally published in the July 2019 edition of Journal of Multistate Taxation...
Quad Graphics, Inc. v. North Carolina Department of Revenue
The Multistate Tax Commission has filed an amicus brief in support of the North Carolina Department of Revenue’s appeal to the North Carolina Supreme Court in Quad Graphics, Inc. v. North Carolina Department of Revenue , Docket No. 407A21, of the North Carolina...
Santa Fe Natural Tobacco Co. v. Dept. of Revenue
The Multistate Tax Commission has filed an amicus brief with the Oregon Tax Court in Santa Fe Natural Tobacco Co. v. Dept. of Revenue. This case considers whether in-state activities conducted by an independent contractor pursuant to a contract with an...
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