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TEI Requests Administrative and Payment Relief for State and Local Taxes in Response to COVID-19 Crisis

On March 25, 2020, TEI sent state and local tax organizations and state tax revenue agencies a letter seeking administrative, filing, and payment relief for state and local taxes in response to the COVID-19 crisis.

MTC Adopts Recommendation to Expand the Partnership Workgroup’s Mandate and Use the Interested Parties’ Draft as a Starting Point for a MTC Model Statute Update

On August 1, 2017, the MTC’s Uniformity Committee voted to expand the MTC’s Partnership Workgroup’s mandate to address the reporting of all federal audit adjustments and to use the Interested Parties’ draft model statute as a starting point to update the MTC’s model statute.

TEI Advocates Need to Update State Statutes Governing the Reporting Federal Income Adjustments at the National Conference of State Legislatures Meeting

On January 14, 2017, TEI Tax Counsel Pilar Mata, along with Fred Nicely and Nikki Dobay of the Council on State Taxation (COST) and Tom Shimkin of the Multistate Tax Commission (MTC), presented at the National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL) Taskforce on State and Local Taxation. The panel discussed the need for state legislators to update state statutes governing the reporting of federal income adjustments, noting the problems with current state statutes and the lack of uniformity among states.

TEI Urges the Multistate Tax Commission to Update its Model Statute Governing the Reporting of Federal Income Adjustments

On December 14, 2016, TEI Tax Counsel Pilar Mata, along with Nikki Dobay of the Council on State Taxation (COST), presented at the Multistate Tax Commission’s (MTC) Fall Meeting and urged the MTC’s Uniformity Committee to undertake a project updating its 2003 model statute governing the reporting of federal income adjustments. Pilar and Nikki noted the problems with current state statutes and the lack of uniformity among states. They also maintained now would be opportune to update the 2003 model statute because states will soon need to consider how to update their reporting sta

TEI Files Amicus Brief in Gillette California Multistate Tax Compact Litigation

On June 30, 2016, TEI filed an amicus brief with the U.S. Supreme Court in The Gillette Company v. California Franchise Tax Board, No. 15-1442, also known as the California Multistate Tax Compact ("Compact") litigation. In the 1960s and 1970s, States persuaded Congress and the business community that then-imminent federal legislation mandating uniformity in state taxation was unnecessary because a number of States had enacted the Compact.

TEI Files Amicus Brief in Gillette Commercial Operations Michigan Retroactivity Litigation

On January 5, 2016, TEI filed an amicus brief in support of the taxpayer's application for leave to appeal the Michigan Court of Appeals' decision in Gillette Commercial Operations North America v. Department of Treasury, Case No. 152588, and its four companion cases. Gillette upheld the validity of 2014 PA 282, which the Michigan Legislature enacted to retroactively overrule the Michigan Supreme Court's decision in International Business Machines Corp v Department of Treasury, 496 Mich. 642 (2014).