State & Local
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March 05, 2025
How Eversheds Sutherland Drew 12-Atty Tax Team In Atlanta
New Eversheds Sutherland partner Hale E. Sheppard joined Law360 Pulse to discuss how he helped lead a team of 12 tax controversy attorneys to join the firm in Atlanta from Chamberlain Hrdlicka White Williams & Aughtry PC.
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March 05, 2025
Ohio Bill Seeks Tax Credits For Insurance Co. Health Plans
Ohio would provide domestic insurance companies with a refundable tax credit for a portion of employer group health plan premiums under a bill introduced in the state Senate.
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March 05, 2025
Mass. Proposed Amendment Would Cap Income Tax Rate
Massachusetts would ask voters to decide if the state income tax rate should be capped at 6.25% under a petition for a proposal of a constitutional amendment.
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March 05, 2025
Ill. Dept. Clarifies Sales Tax Application For Mobile Home Sales
An Illinois mobile home park that installs mobile homes in its park and sells the homes to tenants should be collecting sales tax on sales of mobile homes to customers, the state Department of Revenue clarified.
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March 05, 2025
Ala. Revenue Collection Through Feb. Down $214M
Alabama's total revenue collection from July through February dropped $214 million compared with the same time frame last year, according to the state Department of Revenue in a report released Wednesday.
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March 05, 2025
Ill. Sales Tax Applies To Wheelchair Ramps, Dept. Says
An Illinois company that sells wheelchairs and accessibility ramps is not eligible for the reduced sales tax rate for its sales of ramps because the ramps don't constitute medical appliances, the state Department of Revenue advised.
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March 05, 2025
NH Total Receipts Down $16M From Budget Estimates
New Hampshire's tax collections from July through February underperformed forecasts by $16 million, according to a report from the Department of Administrative Services released Wednesday.
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March 05, 2025
Ariz. House OKs Ballot Measure To End Local Grocery Taxes
Local taxes on groceries would be forbidden in Arizona if voters say yes to a constitutional amendment in a ballot measure proposed in a resolution approved by the state House of Representatives.
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March 05, 2025
Maine House Bill Would Phase Out Individual Income Tax
Maine would phase out the state's income tax, eventually eliminating the levy in 2030, under a bill introduced in the House of Representatives.
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March 05, 2025
Colo. House Panel OKs Local Lodging Tax Boosts
Colorado would triple the maximum local lodging tax rate counties could impose, with voter approval, under legislation approved by a state House panel.
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March 05, 2025
Colo. Lawmakers OK Confidentiality Standards For Tax Audits
Colorado would enhance its confidentiality standards for information held by third-party sales tax auditors under legislation passed by the state House of Representatives and sent to Gov. Jared Polis.
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March 05, 2025
Wyo. Extends Manufacturing Sales And Use Tax Exemptions
Wyoming extended by 15 years its sales and use tax exemptions for machinery used in manufacturing under a bill signed by the governor.
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March 04, 2025
Minn. County Officials Claim Bias In DOI's Land Trust Decision
A trio of Minnesota municipalities are asking a federal court for a quick win in a dispute over more than 3,000 acres taken into trust for the Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe Indians, arguing that the decisions are the product of an unconstitutionally biased process.
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March 04, 2025
Colo. Justices Won't Review Hospital Tax Classification Suit
The Colorado Supreme Court declined to review an appeals court ruling finding that a rehabilitation hospital should be classified as a commercial property for tax purposes because it was predominantly designed for its services and not for residency.
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March 04, 2025
Md. Gov. Pitches Biz Programs, Tax Tweaks To State Panel
Maryland would adjust and streamline several economic development programs, end some corporate tax breaks and expand or extend others under legislation that the governor pitched to a Senate panel Tuesday.
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March 04, 2025
Dispensary Fights Counties' Extra Pot Tax In Mo. High Court
A Missouri appellate court correctly found that counties wrongfully imposed a 3% additional sales tax on cannabis sales that were already subject to tax by a local government, a dispensary told the state Supreme Court.
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March 04, 2025
NY Creates Framework For County Tax On Short-Term Rentals
New York established a framework for counties to impose tax on short-term rentals as part of a bill signed by Democratic Gov. Kathy Hochul.
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March 04, 2025
DeSantis Backs Canning Fla. Rent Tax, Cutting Property Taxes
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis called on state legislators Tuesday to eliminate the state's business rent tax on commercial leases and reaffirmed his pledge to support an effort by lawmakers to draft a constitutional amendment that would cut property taxes.
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March 04, 2025
Arizona Updates Income Tax Conformity With Federal Code
Arizona updated its conformity with the Internal Revenue Code for state income tax purposes under a bill signed by Gov. Katie Hobbs.
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March 04, 2025
Florida Net Revenue Through Feb. Beats Estimate By $596M
Florida's general revenue collection from July through January outpaced estimates by $596 million, according to a report by the Office of Economic and Demographic Research released Tuesday.
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March 04, 2025
Del. Net General Revenue $150M Higher Than Last Year
Delaware's net receipts from July through January beat collections during the same period in the last fiscal year by $150 million, according to a report by the state Department of Finance.
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March 04, 2025
Ore. Bill Would OK Local Pot Production Taxes
Oregon would allow certain rural counties to ask their voters to allow taxes of up to 3% on the value of marijuana production in their unincorporated areas under legislation in the state Senate.
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March 04, 2025
Ore. House OKs Extending Medical Provider Taxes
Oregon would extend the sunset on medical provider and insurance assessments, worth more than $5 billion over four years and used to help fund state healthcare programs, under legislation approved by the state House of Representatives.
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March 04, 2025
W.Va. Revenues Through Feb. Beat Estimates By $62M
West Virginia's general fund revenue collection from July through February outpaced forecasts by $62 million, according to a report by the State Budget Office.
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March 04, 2025
Colo. Finance Panel OKs Employee Ownership Tax Break
Colorado would allow tax deductions for certain businesses that convert to employee ownership under legislation approved by a House committee.
Expert Analysis
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Mental Health First Aid: A Brief Primer For Attorneys
Amid a growing body of research finding that attorneys face higher rates of mental illness than the general population, firms should consider setting up mental health first aid training programs to help lawyers assess mental health challenges in their colleagues and intervene with compassion, say psychologists Shawn Healy and Tracey Meyers.
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Colorado Banking Brief: All The Notable Legal Updates In Q3
In the third quarter of 2024, Colorado's banking and financial services sector faced both regulatory updates and changes to state law due to recent federal court decisions — with consequences for local governments, mortgage lenders, state-chartered trust companies and federally chartered lenders serving Colorado consumers, says Sarah Auchterlonie at Brownstein Hyatt.
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Litigation Inspiration: Honoring Your Learned Profession
About 30,000 people who took the bar exam in July will learn they passed this fall, marking a fitting time for all attorneys to remember that they are members in a specialty club of learned professionals — and the more they can keep this in mind, the more benefits they will see, says Bennett Rawicki at Hilgers Graben.
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AI May Limit Key Learning Opportunities For Young Attorneys
The thing that’s so powerful about artificial intelligence is also what’s most scary about it — its ability to detect patterns may curtail young attorneys’ chance to practice the lower-level work of managing cases, preventing them from ever honing the pattern recognition skills that undergird creative lawyering, says Sarah Murray at Trialcraft.
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Why Now Is The Time For Law Firms To Hire Lateral Partners
Partner and associate mobility data from the second quarter of this year suggest that there's never been a better time in recent years for law firms to hire lateral candidates, particularly experienced partners — though this necessitates an understanding of potential red flags, say Julie Henson and Greg Hamman at Decipher Investigative Intelligence.
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Considering Possible PR Risks Of Certain Legal Tactics
Disney and American Airlines recently abandoned certain litigation tactics in two lawsuits after fierce public backlash, illustrating why corporate counsel should consider the reputational implications of any legal strategy and partner with their communications teams to preempt public relations concerns, says Chris Gidez at G7 Reputation Advisory.
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It's No Longer Enough For Firms To Be Trusted Advisers
Amid fierce competition for business, the transactional “trusted adviser” paradigm from which most firms operate is no longer sufficient — they should instead aim to become trusted partners with their most valuable clients, says Stuart Maister at Strategic Narrative.
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Frames Of Deference: SALT In Review
From a challenge to New York state regulations that follows on the end of Chevron deference to a court ruling siding with the Nebraska Revenue Department's view of a tax deduction, RSM's David Brunori offers his thoughts on noteworthy state and local tax news.
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Navigating A Potpourri Of Possible Transparency Act Pitfalls
Despite the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network's continued release of guidance for complying with the Corporate Transparency Act, its interpretation remains in flux, making it important for companies to understand potentially problematic areas of ambiguity in the practical application of the law, say attorneys at Sidley.
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How Methods Are Evolving In Textualist Interpretations
Textualists at the U.S. Supreme Court are increasingly considering new methods such as corpus linguistics and surveys to evaluate what a statute's text communicates to an ordinary reader, while lower courts even mull large language models like ChatGPT as supplements, says Kevin Tobia at Georgetown Law.
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Local Taxes And Repercussions: SALT In Review
From a study of local taxes to news that corporations will relocate to tax-friendlier places, RSM's David Brunori offers his thoughts on noteworthy state and local tax news.
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Financial Incentives May Alleviate Affordable Housing Crisis
There is a wide array of financial incentives and assistance that the government can provide to both real estate developers and individuals to chip away at the housing affordability problem from multiple angles, say Eric DeBear and Madeline Williams at Cozen.
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Why Attorneys Should Consider Community Leadership Roles
Volunteering and nonprofit board service are complementary to, but distinct from, traditional pro bono work, and taking on these community leadership roles can produce dividends for lawyers, their firms and the nonprofit causes they support, says Katie Beacham at Kilpatrick.