State & Local
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July 15, 2025
NYC's Suit Against Flavored E-Cig Sellers Can Continue
A Manhattan federal judge on Monday rejected a bid by eight vape wholesalers to toss an action brought by New York City alleging the companies flooded the city with flavored e-cigarettes in violation of federal, state and local law.
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July 15, 2025
DC Plan Advances With Gambling, Child Tax Break Repeal
A proposed budget and tax package for Washington, D.C., that would legalize and tax some gambling and block a planned child tax credit won initial approval from the district council, rejecting some of the mayor's proposals.
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July 15, 2025
Idaho Annual Revenues Miss Estimate By $95M
Idaho's total revenue collection in the 2025 fiscal year missed estimates by roughly $95 million, according to the state Division of Financial Management.
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July 15, 2025
Calif. Legislature OKs Retroactive Solar Property Exclusion
California would allow the purchaser of a new property a three-year window to apply for a property tax exclusion for solar energy systems under a bill passed by the state Senate and sent to Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom for approval.
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July 15, 2025
Nebraska's Annual Net Receipts Fall $86M Short Of Estimate
Nebraska's net receipts in the 2025 fiscal year underperformed a forecast by $86 million and lagged behind the prior fiscal year's collection by $997 million, according to a report released Tuesday by the state Department of Revenue.
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July 15, 2025
Tenn. Revenues Through June Beat Estimates By $81M
Tennessee's general revenue collection from August 2024 through June exceeded estimates by $81 million but dropped behind last year by $209 million, according to the Department of Finance and Administration.
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July 15, 2025
Pa. Senate Bill Seeks To End School District Property Taxes
Pennsylvania would propose an amendment to the state constitution to eliminate school districts' authority to levy or collect property taxes after June 30, 2029, under a bill introduced in the state Senate.
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July 14, 2025
Vape Groups Urge 4th Circ. To Stall NC E-Cigarette Law
Vape interests are urging the Fourth Circuit to temporarily stop North Carolina officials from enforcing a law that could prevent the sale of many types of e-cigarettes in the state, claiming the statute was pushed by "Big Tobacco" company Reynolds American Inc. and targets products that help people quit smoking.
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July 14, 2025
NY Judge Snuffs Counties' Bid To Derail Congestion Pricing
A New York federal judge on Monday tossed claims from two local counties alleging Manhattan's discriminatory congestion pricing tolls trampled on motorists' right to travel, saying inconvenient tolls for certain commuters don't amount to a constitutional violation.
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July 14, 2025
Md. Says Digital Ad Tax Applies To Automated, Visual Ads
Advertising services subject to Maryland's digital advertising gross revenues tax must be both programmatic, or automated, and conveyed visually, the state comptroller said in a bulletin obtained Monday by Law360.
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July 14, 2025
Ohio Board Values Custom-Built Cannabis Facility At $12.6M
The Ohio Board of Tax Appeals valued a custom-built cannabis cultivation and processing facility at $12.6 million Monday, ruling that the property qualified as a special purpose property that is appraised under the cost approach method.
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July 14, 2025
Missouri Net Revenue Rises $2M From Prior Year
Missouri's total net revenue collections from July 2024 through June outperformed the total for the prior fiscal year by roughly $2 million, according to the state Office of Administration.
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July 14, 2025
Ohio Revenue Beats Estimate For Year By $972M
Ohio's general fund revenue from July 2024 through June exceeded a forecast by $972 million, according to the state Office of Budget and Management.
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July 14, 2025
DC Bill Seeks Entity-Level Tax For Pass-Throughs
The District of Columbia would let pass-through entities elect to be taxed at the entity level and would provide a tax credit for members of such entities under a bill referred to a D.C. Council committee Monday.
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July 11, 2025
GOP Budget Bill May Not Be The End For PL 86-272 Revisions
State representatives celebrated the removal of a provision from the federal budget reconciliation bill that sought to broaden state income tax protections for businesses, but they may need to stay on the lookout for future tax preemption proposals from Congress.
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July 11, 2025
PepsiCo Challenges $2.1M Tax Penalty In Ill. Supreme Court
Illinois' justices should overturn lower court decisions allowing $2.1 million in penalties on PepsiCo for categorizing Frito-Lay expatriates' compensation as foreign payroll, a categorization that excluded Frito-Lay's profits from PepsiCo's state income tax calculations, the food and beverage giant said in a petition.
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July 11, 2025
Alaska Shifts Car Rental Tax Collection Liability, Cuts Rate
Alaska changed who must collect and remit an excise tax on rentals of passenger vehicles arranged through certain platform companies and lowered the tax's rate under a bill that became law without the governor's signature.
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July 11, 2025
The Tax Angle: Church Politics, Budget Talk, Disaster Relief
From a look at the IRS' statement relaxing a 71-year-old ban on political endorsements by churches to talk of a second budget reconciliation bill this year and the passage of disaster tax relief legislation, here's a peek into a reporter's notebook on a few developing tax stories.
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July 11, 2025
Colo. Says Modular Home Co.'s Purchases Tax-Exempt
A company is exempt from sales tax on its purchases of materials to build modular homes in Colorado, the state's Department of Revenue said in a ruling released Friday, finding the materials fall under the state's wholesale exemption.
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July 11, 2025
Ky. General Revenue Through June Up $132M
Kentucky's general revenue collection from July 2024 through June was $132 million higher than the same period last year, according to the Office of State Budget Director.
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July 11, 2025
Pa. House OKs State Actions To Combat False Claims
Pennsylvania would allow the state's attorney general to pursue actions against people who make false claims to use state programs under a bill passed by the state House of Representatives.
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July 11, 2025
Pa. Revenue Up $321M From Forecast For Fiscal Year
Pennsylvania collected $321 million more in general fund revenue than expected in fiscal year 2025, according to a report released Friday by the state's Department of Revenue.
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July 11, 2025
Taxation With Representation: Davis Polk, Kirkland, Cassels
In this week's Taxation With Representation, Merck buys U.K. drugmaker Verona Pharma, CoreWeave acquires fellow data center company Core Scientific, Royal Gold acquires Sandstorm Gold and Horizon Copper, and Italian food company Ferrero buys WK Kellogg.
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July 11, 2025
Calif. Revenue Tops Forecast For Year By $3.7B
California's net revenue collection in the fiscal year that ended last month outpaced an estimate by $3.7 billion, the state controller's office reported.
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July 11, 2025
Minn. Revenue Surpasses Estimate By $847M
Minnesota's total revenue from July 2024 through June beat an estimate by $847 million, according to the state's management and budget office.
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.