SALT Blawg – State and Local Tax Blog
State and Local Tax ("SALT") blog issues require state and local tax knowledge. Chamberlain Hrdlicka's SALT Blawg (SALT Blog) provides exactly that knowledge with news updates and commentary about state and local tax issues.
You can expect to find relevant information about topics such as income (corporate and personal) tax, franchise tax, sales and use tax, property (real and personal) tax, fuel tax, capital stock tax, bank tax, gross receipts tax and withholding tax. SALT Blawg, offers tax talk for tax pros … in your neighborhood.
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State DOR Letters and Rulings
Florida ruled that when a cleaning service provider uses cleaning supplies to perform the cleaning services, sales and use tax is due on those supplies. However, to the extent those supplies are not used, but sold to a customer for their use, the transaction is exempt as a sale for resale.
The Texas Comptroller ruled that a series LLC would be treated as a single entity for Texas franchise tax purposes. The entity cannot be broken up into separate parts, but must file as one.
Alabama ruled that winter park provided amusement services subject to sales tax. The ...
Texas Supreme Court Rules “Pole Tax” Does Not Violate First Amendment
In a unanimous decision Texas Supreme Court rules stripper "pole tax" does not violate First Amendment. The decision reverses a 2-1 Third Court of Appeals decision, which had held the tax violated the First Amendment in upholding the trial court’s ruling. The decision remands the case to the trial court, where three arguments remain, all based on challenges to the tax under the Texas Constitution.
New Jersey Appeals Court Upholds Tax Court Finding No Unitary Nature of Limited Partnership
New Jersey ...
The Solicitor General of the Texas Attorney General has taken the lead and on August 18, 2011 filed a short response to Allcat's petition to declare the new Texas franchise tax unconstitutional. In summary, Texas argues that (i) a tax on the income of an entity does not constitute a tax on a person’s share of that entity’s income, (ii) that the Texas Supreme Court’s ruling should be narrowed to a natural person with an interest in a limited partnership (as opposed to striking down the franchise tax in toto), and (iii) that the last two issues raised by Allcat are not properly before the ...