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Finding the Market Through the Looking Glass: California Issues Sales Factor Sourcing Guidance

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California’s long-anticipated market-based sourcing “guidance” is finally out. Legal Ruling No. 2022-01 provides the Franchise Tax Board’s take on how to find the market in certain business-to-business sales. Though the guidance emphasizes that a seller should look to where its direct customer receives the benefit of sales of services, it keeps with current market-based sourcing trends amongst states and directs taxpayers to source such receipts based on the location of the taxpayer’s customer’s customer. The…

New Jersey Seasons Russia and Belarus Sanctions With A Dash of SALT

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On March 9, 2022, the New Jersey legislature unanimously passed, and New Jersey Governor Philip D. Murphy signed, Senate Bill No. 1889 (“SB 1889”), which, among other limitations, prohibits entities with certain ties to Russia or Belarus from benefitting from New Jersey state and local economic development incentives, including certain state and local tax incentives. While several other states’ pension funds have moved to divest themselves of Russian financial holdings, SB 1889—which was swiftly introduced…

Remote Seller Alleges Louisiana’s System of Locally-Administered Sales Taxes Is Unconstitutional after Wayfair

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Ever since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned the physical presence nexus requirement for state sales and use taxes in South Dakota v. Wayfair, 138 S. Ct. 2080 (2018), taxpayers and practitioners have questioned the extent to which the Court’s holding applies to locally administered sales and use taxes.  This question is often rooted in the Court’s statement in Wayfair that “States may not impose undue burdens on interstate commerce” and its reference to Pike v.…

Louisiana Latest State to Institute Voluntary Transfer Pricing Audit Program

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Beginning November 1, 2021, the Louisiana Department of Revenue (“Department”) will be offering taxpayers the opportunity to participate in a voluntary transfer pricing “managed audit” program (the “Program”). Pursuant to a recently released Department information bulletin, the purpose of the Program is to: Create an efficient and expedited resolution for corporate tax audits when transfer pricing issues exist; andProvide certainty and uniformity to taxpayers on the resolution of transfer pricing issues for open audit periods…

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