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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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • July 11, 2025

    Minn. Tax Court Boosts Value Of Macy's Property By $6M

    The Minnesota Tax Court boosted the tax valuation of a Macy's store by nearly $6 million, adopting elements of the local assessor's cost analysis and finding that that property's highest and best use was its continued operation as an anchor department store.

  • July 10, 2025

    Pa. Sens. Unveil Bipartisan Plan To Legalize Marijuana

    Pennsylvania lawmakers on Thursday unveiled a new bipartisan legislative proposal to legalize and regulate the sale of recreational marijuana in the Keystone State, after a previous proposal to legalize the sale of pot through state-run stores failed in the state Senate.

  • July 10, 2025

    Missouri Creates Exemptions For Capital Gains, Sales Tax

    Missouri will exempt capital gains from the state's income tax and create sales tax exemptions for broadband equipment, feminine hygiene products and diapers under a bill the state's governor signed Thursday.

  • July 10, 2025

    Cannabis Tax Hike Delay Clears Calif. Senate Committee

    California would delay a statutorily required increase to its cannabis excise tax by five years, reinstating a lower rate that was in place before July 1, under a bill advanced by the state Senate's Revenue and Taxation Committee.

  • July 10, 2025

    Mass. Panel Cuts Shopping Center's Tax Value By $1.5M

    A Massachusetts panel lowered the tax valuation of a shopping center by about $1.5 million in an opinion released Thursday, an amount less than what the property's owner sought.

  • July 10, 2025

    Texas Gov. Calls Special Session To Tackle Local Property Tax

    Texas Gov. Greg Abbott issued a proclamation calling the Legislature to a special session later this month, outlining nearly two dozen agenda items including limiting property tax increases by local jurisdictions.

  • July 10, 2025

    Ga. General Fund Receipts Through June Up $668M

    Georgia's general fund receipts in the 2025 fiscal year were $668 million higher than in the last fiscal year, according to the state Department of Revenue.

  • July 10, 2025

    Mass. Tax Panel Rejects Effort To Cut $1.45M Condo Value

    The owner of a Massachusetts condo unit failed to present adequate evidence to lower its assessment of $1.45 million, the state's Appellate Tax Board said in an opinion released Thursday, rejecting the owner's comparable sales analyses.

Expert Analysis

  • Colorado Banking Brief: All The Notable Legal Updates In Q3

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    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.

  • Litigation Inspiration: Honoring Your Learned Profession

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    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.

  • AI May Limit Key Learning Opportunities For Young Attorneys

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    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.

  • Why Now Is The Time For Law Firms To Hire Lateral Partners

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    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.

  • Considering Possible PR Risks Of Certain Legal Tactics

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    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.

  • It's No Longer Enough For Firms To Be Trusted Advisers

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    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.

  • Frames Of Deference: SALT In Review

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    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.

  • Navigating A Potpourri Of Possible Transparency Act Pitfalls

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    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.

  • How Methods Are Evolving In Textualist Interpretations

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    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.

  • Local Taxes And Repercussions: SALT In Review

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    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.

  • Financial Incentives May Alleviate Affordable Housing Crisis

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    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.

  • Why Attorneys Should Consider Community Leadership Roles

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    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.

  • Firms Must Offer A Trifecta Of Services In Post-Chevron World

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    After the U.S. Supreme Court’s Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo decision overturning Chevron deference, law firms will need to integrate litigation, lobbying and communications functions to keep up with the ramifications of the ruling and provide adequate counsel quickly, says Neil Hare at Dentons.

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