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In a unanimous decision issued on September 25, 2025, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court invalidated the City of Pittsburgh’s controversial Nonresident Sports Facility Usage Fee (commonly referred to as the “Jock Tax”), a 3% levy imposed solely on nonresident athletes and entertainers who earn income at the City’s publicly funded sports stadiums. Pittsburgh residents were exempt from the fee. The Court held that the tax violated the Uniformity Clause of the Pennsylvania Constitution, which requires that…

On July 4, 2025, President Donald Trump signed the One Big, Beautiful Bill Act (hereinafter, “OBBBA” or “the Act”) into law. OBBBA enacts sweeping changes to the Internal Revenue Code (“Code”), many of which will impact taxpayers at the state level, including reforms to the federal state and local tax (“SALT”) deduction, Global Intangible Low-Taxed Income (“GILTI”), Foreign-Derived Intangible Income (“FDII”), section 174 research and development expensing, and section 163(j) business interest deduction limitations. Notably,…

Starting the new year off with legislation aimed directly at the pockets of corporate taxpayers, New York has issued a legislative proposal to nearly cut in half corporate taxpayers’ available GILTI exemptions, and at the same time almost double the top corporate franchise tax rate. Senate Bill 953 (“SB953”), pre-filed in the state senate on January 8, 2025, has the potential to significantly increase New York franchise tax exposure for corporations doing business in the…