5 Key Takeaways | State Tax Litigation
5 Key Takeaways | National State Tax Cases, Issues, and Policy Matters to Watch
Williams Mullen's Comeback Plan: Part I – State & Local Tax (SALT) Compliance During COVID-19: What to Do When You’re Behind
Viewpoints: Developments in Non-Compete Law
Videocast: SALT Scoreboard – 2019 year in review
Trends and Legal Risks in Medical Marijuana: Thought Leaders in Health Law Video Series
Videocast: Sutherland SALT Scoreboard – 2nd Quarter Highlights
On July 4, 2025, President Trump signed the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA) into law ushering in sweeping federal tax changes. The legislation notably expands the Qualified Business Income (QBI) deduction for professionals...more
On June 16, 2025, the Senate Finance Committee released a draft package that includes a major provision aimed at curbing the use of state pass-through entity taxes (PTETs) to bypass the federal $10,000 cap on state and local...more
The Senate’s version of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (the “Act”) was released on June 16th, following the House’s passing of its version of the bill in late May. Among the many tax-related changes in both versions of the...more
On May 22, the House of Representatives passed proposed tax legislation titled, “The One, Big, Beautiful Bill” (TOBBB), which will now be debated in the Senate. Among other proposals, if enacted into law, TOBBB would make...more
On May 12, 2025, House Republicans unveiled a comprehensive 389-page package of tax provisions, setting the stage for a significant tax bill to be debated in the coming weeks. Dubbed the “One Big Beautiful Bill,” this...more
A changing tax landscape is on the horizon for the new year. Many of the provisions of the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (“TCJA”) are scheduled to expire at the end of the year. President-elect Trump has also proposed a variety...more
State and local taxes impact almost every taxpayer, and developments in any one jurisdiction can be frequent and sometimes confusing. ln this newsletter edition, we will briefly summarize selected state and local tax (SALT)...more
In 2021, the Alabama Legislature unanimously enacted an elective pass-through entity tax (PTE Tax) as a workaround to the so-called “SALT Cap,” which was part of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017. The Alabama Electing...more
The Maryland Comptroller’s Office issued a Tax Alert on April 11, 2023 addressing policy and procedural changes to pass-through entity (PTE) filings and payments. For tax years beginning after Dec. 31, 2022, PTEs are required...more
For individual owners of pass-through entities, such as partnerships, limited liability companies (“LLCs”), business trusts, and S Corporations, Virginia’s elective Pass-through Entity Tax (“PTET”) offers potential federal...more
Elective PTE Income Taxes Payable to Virginia - Beginning July 1, 2022, Virginia’s new law establishing a workaround for the federal income tax limitation on deductions for state and local taxes (SALT) became effective....more
Readers may recall that the Alabama Legislature unanimously enacted an elective pass-through entity tax (PTE Tax) last year as a workaround to the so-called “SALT Cap,” which was part of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017. The...more
State and local taxes impact almost every taxpayer, and developments in any one jurisdiction can be frequent and sometimes confusing. In this newsletter edition, we will briefly summarize certain SALT developments in several...more
California has revised its existing SALT cap work-around to address and liberalize several of the significant limitations on the work-around that we discussed in our prior alert. On February 9, Governor Gavin Newsom signed...more
State-level pass-through entity tax (PTET) regimes offer structuring opportunities in M&A transactions involving S corporation targets. PTET regimes have been adopted by a growing number of states as a workaround to the...more
In late 2020, the IRS issued a notice confirming imminent proposed regulations that would allow certain tax strategies to avoid the individual $10,000 state and local tax (“SALT”) deduction limitation of the Tax Cuts and Jobs...more
On December 20, 2021, Governor Gretchen Whitmer signed legislation (H.B. 5376) allowing owners of S corporations and partnerships (including limited liability companies taxed as partnerships) to pay their state and local...more
Matt Hunsaker discusses recent North Carolina tax legislation, including phase-out/phase-down of corporate and individual income tax rates, an elective passthrough entity SALT cap workaround, and simplification of the...more
Earlier this year, Alabama became one of 19 or so states to enact a pass-through entity tax as a workaround to the so-called "SALT Cap" enacted as part of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017, which limits the deductibility of...more
Last fall, the IRS announced, with respect to pass-through entities (LLCs or other entities taxed as partnerships or S corporations), that, if state law allows or requires the entity itself to pay state and local taxes (which...more
One of the most controversial individual income tax changes enacted under the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 is the $10,000 cap on the deduction for state and local income and property taxes (“SALT”) for federal income tax...more
While business owners wait to see whether Congress raises the U.S. long-term capital gains rate from 20 percent to 25 percent and enacts relief from the limitations on the deductibility of state and local taxes (SALT),...more
Matt Hunsaker gives an overview of the recently enacted passthrough workaround to the $10,000 state and local tax deduction cap....more
On July 16, 2021, Governor Baker approved a $47.6 billion fiscal 2022 budget, but sent back a provision the Massachusetts Legislature passed creating a workaround for the federal cap on the state and local tax deduction. ...more
On July 16, 2021, Governor Newsom signed California Assembly Bill 150 into law, allowing certain owners of passthrough entities to find a way around the current $10,000 federal cap on state and local tax (SALT) deductions for...more