Maria Koklanaris

California’s lawmakers approved and sent to the governor a bill that would adopt and clarify state constitutional changes made by voters in November via Proposition 19, which both expanded and narrowed certain property tax benefits.

A California anti-tax group filed a ballot measure that would reverse some changes made by voters in November via Proposition 19, which amended how some property tax increases can be made on inherited homes and businesses.

States seeking to expand their efforts in transfer pricing are increasingly focused on methods that involve the exchange of taxpayer information between governments, raising concern among practitioners troubled by what they see as lax privacy controls.

A divided North Carolina Supreme Court on Friday upheld a $21.4 million combined appraisal of Harris Teeter’s equipment at six supermarkets, rejecting the supermarket company’s argument that the equipment’s value depreciated at a higher rate than a county determined.

Maryland’s highest court allowed a targeted tax on speech when it ruled that a Baltimore excise tax on billboards does not violate the First Amendment rights of advertiser Clear Channel Outdoor, the company said Thursday in asking the U.S. Supreme Court to review the decision.

After two years of work, the Multistate Tax Commission adopted guidance Wednesday on when internet business activities exceed federal protections against state income tax.

Businesses and states may use transfer pricing studies for purposes beyond settling tax disputes over intercompany transactions, including nexus determinations or justifying a lack of a unitary relationship between entities, panelists at a tax conference said Wednesday.

California joined the growing list of states to create a workaround of the $10,000 cap on the federal deduction for state and local taxes paid for pass-through entities under a bill signed Friday by the governor.

New Hampshire’s complaint against Massachusetts’ regulation imposing income tax on remote workers during the COVID-19 pandemic does not merit the U.S. Supreme Court’s original jurisdiction, the acting solicitor general told the justices in a brief.

New York’s tax department started sending out letters asking taxpayers about residency and telecommuting issues, tax attorneys said Thursday, a push that comes as the coronavirus pandemic allowed people to leave New York or telecommute.

A California anti-tax group said Wednesday that it’s backing efforts to reverse some changes made by voters in November via Proposition 19, which amended how some property tax increases can be made on inherited homes and businesses.

Large online companies such as Google and Facebook would be prohibited from passing along the cost of a new tax on digital advertising in Maryland under a bill sent Monday to the state’s governor.

Alabama cannot impose fuel sales tax on rail carriers when the fuel is used for interstate commerce while it continues to grant an exemption for water carriers, a federal district court said in granting judgment to six railroads.

While a full repeal of the 2017 tax overhaul’s cap on the deduction for state and local taxes remains uncertain under a Biden administration, pressure from congressional Democrats is likely to result in a form of compromise.

State and local taxes imposed at the entity level on pass-through entities are permitted as a deduction and this “is consistent with the long-standing position” of the U.S. Department of the Treasury and the Internal Revenue Service, the agencies said Monday.

Georgia’s tax agency has advised localities that in light of the novel coronavirus, the law allows them to waive penalties and interest if certain property tax payments are late.

A top tax attorney at the Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts will be leaving the tax agency of the nation’s second-largest state to join the Multistate Tax Commission, the MTC executive director has announced.

From high-stakes state tax petitions before the U.S. Supreme Court to state courts’ examinations of taxing software and apportionment, 2020 is shaping up to be another year of citable cases in state taxation. Here are the top state and local tax cases to watch in 2020.