 | New Jersey Tax Developments and Reminders
- May 2012 On March 2, 2012, the Superior Court of New Jersey held that an employee telecommuting from her New Jersey residence subjected Telebright Corp., Inc., an out-of-state employer with no other physical presence in the state, to the New Jersey Corporation Business Tax. [...]
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 | New York State Passes Budget Bill: Individual Income Tax Brackets Revised and Tax Incentives Created
- April 2012 On February 13, 2012, the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance issued guidance in the form of a Technical Services Bureau Memorandum, TSB-M-12(3)I.
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 | New Requirements for Combined Groups with a Texas Business Loss Carryforward Credit
- October 2011 The Texas Comptroller recently issued a notice requiring reporting entities of combined groups that claimed a temporary credit for their business loss carryforward (BLC) to submit additional information about such credit by October 31, 2011. [...]
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 | California - Voluntary Disclosure Program Enacted For Los Angeles Business Tax
- October 2011 Effective October 4, 2011, a voluntary disclosure program is available to qualified taxpayers who failed to register or pay the Los Angeles business tax. [...]
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 | California Grants One-Year Nexus Reprieve for Certain Remote Retailers
- October 2011 On September 23, 2011, California Governor Jerry Brown signed AB 155 into law, affording certain remote retailers a one-year reprieve from the state’s new sales tax nexus requirements for remote sellers that went into effect June 28, 2011.
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 | R&D Tax Credits for Emerging Technology and Biotechnology Companies in New Jersey
- August 2011 The State of New Jersey announced incentive programs for research and development through expanded opportunities to turn the New Jersey research and development tax credit into [...]
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 | Delaware Unclaimed Property Proposed Legislative Amendments
- August 2011 On July 1, 2011, legislation was introduced in the Delaware General Assembly that would significantly reduce Delaware’s “look-back” period [...]
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 | Michigan Tax Reform - Déjà Vu?
- July 2011 On May 25, 2011 Michigan Governor Rick Snyder signed a sweeping tax reform package that replaces Michigan Business Tax (MBT) with a 6% [...]
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 | Arizona and Michigan Tax Amnesty Programs
- June 2011
The Michigan Department of Treasury has created a tax amnesty program allowing taxpayers a 45-day window in which to settle tax liabilities with the state. [...]
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 | California Sales Tax Refund Opportunity on Selected Software Licenses
- June 2011
The California Supreme Court recently made a determination not to review a lower-court decision regarding the application of the California sales and [...]
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 | New Jersey Adopts Single Sales Factor and Changes to Gross Income Tax Act
- May 2011
New Jersey Governor Chris Christie has signed into law legislation phasing in a single-sales factor apportionment formula over a three-year period beginning with [...]
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 | California Franchise Tax Board Identifies New Listed Transaction: "Circular Cash Flow"
- May 2011
On April 22, 2011, the California Franchise Tax Board (“FTB”) issued Notice 2011-03 in response to a planning strategy used by some [...]
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 | New York State Budget Bill and Maryland Proposed Tax Credit Legislation
- May 2011
New York State passed an on-time 2011-2012 budget bill on March 31. The approximately $132.5 billion budget contains no new tax increases. [...]
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 | Software Subject to Copyright and Patent Interest Found to be Exempt from California Sales Tax
- March 2011
Last month, the Court of Appeals for California’s Second Appellate District determined that licenses of [...]
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 | Washington State Amnesty Program
- March 2011
A temporary amnesty program waives penalties and interest on certain unpaid Washington State business taxes. On December 11, 2010, the Washington legislature unanimously passed an act to establish an amnesty [...]
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 | Bills Budgets And Ballots: A California Tax Update
- December 2010
Through a series of legislative changes, the passing of the California budget, and certain California propositions on the November ballot, several California tax law [...]
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 | Massachusetts Economic Development Reorganization Act
- September 2010
On August 5, 2010, Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick signed into law Senate Bill No. 2582, the Economic Development Reorganization Act (the “Act”). [...]
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 | New York City Rules Amended
- May 2010 General Corporation, Banking Corporation, and Unincorporated Business Tax rules have been amended to provide guidelines, applicable during the phase-in period to a single receipts factor, for allocating income when any of the three allocation factors is missing. [...]
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 | Disregarded Entities May Be Required to File Michigan Single Business Tax Returns
- March 2010
A significant case has recently been decided relating to the repealed Michigan Single Business Tax (“SBT”). The case dealt with the proper SBT treatment of entities [...]
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 | New York State Introduces Penalty and Interest Discount (“PAID”) Program
- February 2010
On December 4, 2009, Governor David Paterson signed into law a revenue measure that allows the Department of Taxation and Finance to administer a penalty and [...]
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 | Final Version of Massachusetts Privacy Law Has Been Filed and Will Take Effect on March 1, 2010
- November 2009
The Massachusetts Office of Consumer Affairs and Business Regulation (“OCABR”) has filed its final amendments to its information security regulations [...]
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