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Perry Cooper @PerryECooper

SALT litigation reporter for @Tax based in eastern NC. Winner of the Rule-izter Prize☝️. Tweets my own etc. Sailing adventures on Insta: PirateShipPelican 🏴‍☠️

Joined December 2012
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Ryan Autullo@RyanAutullo
25 Nov 2025
UT-Austin is behind on $160,000 in property taxes, penalties, and interest for the UT Club restaurant inside the Longhorns' football stadium, Travis County says in a new lawsuit. The county wants the restaurant sold to cover the bill. #txlege news.bloombergtax.com/daily-…

University of Texas Sued for Delinquent Taxes on Stadium Club

The University of Texas Club inside the Longhorns’ football stadium should be sold to cover delinquent property taxes, Travis County told a state trial court.

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A Massachusetts appeals court rocked the boat yesterday by allowing the DOR to tax a nonresident's capital gains from a stock sale. That could put the state's position as an innovation hub at risk. Read more here: news.bloomberglaw.com/daily-…

Massachusetts Ruling Upends Norms for Taxing Nonresident Income

A recent Massachusetts appeals court ruling endorsing the revenue department’s broad reach to tax nonresidents’ capital gains is unsettling expectations about how such stock sales are treated across...

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Yesterday a Mass. appellate panel heard arguments over whether the state has the right to tax a New Hampshire resident's gain on stock he obtained founding and running a company there: news.bloomberglaw.com/daily-….

Taxation of Nonresident’s Stock Sale Divides Massachusetts Panel

Three Massachusetts appellate justices appeared split at oral arguments Tuesday on whether the state has the right to tax capital gains realized by a company’s founder after he moved to New Hampshire.

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Taxpayer advocates warn that if the court upholds the assessment, it could chase innovation out of Massachusetts: news.bloomberglaw.com/daily-…

Massachusetts Stock Sale Tax Case Poses Threat to Innovation (1)

The Massachusetts Appeals Court is set to hear oral arguments Tuesday in an income tax case involving a nonresident that has the potential to discourage entrepreneurs from starting businesses in the...

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SCOTUS skips the Zilka v. Philadelphia case about aggregating state and local income for tax purposes. Next week, we could get news on whether they will take the Disney and IBM foreign royalties cases. Here's my story on today's cert denial: news.bloomberglaw.com/daily-…

Justices Skip Pennsylvania State, Local Tax Aggregation Case

The US Supreme Court won’t consider a Philadelphia woman’s claim that her Delaware wages were double taxed, the justices announced Monday.

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Investors are concerned about unexpected tax bills and sizable penalties following last week's Washington Supreme Court decision limiting the state’s business and occupation tax investment income deduction. Read more here: bloomberglaw.com/bloombergla…

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16 investment funds won't get $400k in Wash. B&O tax refunds after the state high court rejected their reading of the biz income deduction. W/a SCOTUS petition off the table (no federal Q), a leg fix is their only hope. (Corrected to add the right link!) news.bloomberglaw.com/daily-…

Washington Justices Shun Broad Reading of Business Tax Break (1)

The Washington Supreme Court on Thursday upheld the state revenue department’s interpretation of the business and occupation tax investment income deduction.

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danielle muoio dunn@muoiod
16 Oct 2024
From @PerryECooper: Former New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio must sit for a two-hour deposition in a proposed class action by Black property owners facing foreclosure as a result of tax delinquencies, a federal court ruled. news.bloombergtax.com/daily-…

De Blasio Must Give Deposition in NYC Tax Sale Program Challenge

Former New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio must sit for a two-hour deposition in a proposed class action by Black property owners facing foreclosure as a result of tax delinquencies, a federal court...

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D. Todd Smith@dtoddsmith
15 Oct 2024
FWIW, the brand-new 15th Court of Appeals (on which Justice @ScottKingField sits) already has more cases on its argument calendar than the vast majority of the other 14 intermediate appellate courts.
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2 Oct 2024
JetBlue Airways and the Florida Department of Revenue both want a lawsuit over how to decide much of a commercial airline’s income is taxable in the state decided without trial. btaxgo.com/8ih0Cfh
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Tomorrow the Illinois Supreme Court will hear a case about county fuel taxes that could have repercussions on the broader commodities trading industry. It could also inspire localities to expand the reach of their tax statutes. Read more here: news.bloomberglaw.com/daily-…

Illinois Fuel Tax Case Opens Door to More Expansive Tax Rules

Marathon Petroleum Co. will try to convince the Illinois Supreme Court at oral arguments Thursday to overturn a $15 million motor fuel tax bill and in the process urge the court to put the brakes on...

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Want to know why a recent Nebraska Supreme Court ruling in a case involving a Berkshire Hathaway company has taxpayers "totally freaking out"? Read on here: news.bloomberglaw.com/daily-… @BLaw @tax

Berkshire Tax Case Lays Path for Other States to Follow Nebraska

The Nebraska Supreme Court’s ruling in a tax case involving a Berkshire Hathaway Inc. subsidiary shakes the justification behind other states’ decisions not to tax income from multinationals’ foreign...

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Michael J Bologna@MJBologna
3 Sep 2024
EXCLUSIVE: Louisiana confidentially settled a major tax lawsuit against ConocoPhillips, but declined to reveal whether the oil giant paid any of the $700M in back taxes and penalties initially sought. See my story in @bloombergtax news.bloombergtax.com/daily-…

ConocoPhillips Quietly Settles Louisiana Profit-Shifting Lawsuit

The Louisiana Department of Revenue confidentially settled a major tax lawsuit against ConocoPhillips Co., but declined to reveal whether the oil and gas giant paid any of the estimated $700 million...

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Great advice for anyone who wants to be a helpful source from rock star @AlisonFrankel:
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Michael J Bologna@MJBologna
12 Jul 2024
Who doesn't love transfer pricing? See my interview with Joe Garrett @DeloitteUS, a true expert and gentleman. We get into TP, combined reporting and state audits, all in @bloombergtax news.bloombergtax.com/transf…

Transfer Pricing Chat: Joe Garrett of Deloitte, Multistate Tax

Transfer pricing disputes are most prominently a concern for international tax departments, but state and local tax specialists also pay close attention—particularly as state revenue agencies have...

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Michael J Bologna@MJBologna
3 Jul 2024
Oregon created a framework for taxing the first program legalizing psilocybin-assisted therapy. Magic mushrooms are a federally controlled substance, but a dozen states are drafting plans to decriminalize psychedelics. See my deep dive in @bloombergtax news.bloombergtax.com/daily-…

Oregon Is Teaching the States How to Tax Psychedelic Mushrooms

Ram Dass, the spiritual teacher and Harvard researcher on the therapeutic effects of psychedelic drugs, once observed that spiritual journeys are highly personal and “can’t be organized or regulated.”

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Joe Kristan@joebwan
2 Jul 2024
The links are out there: @KristenParillo @TaxNotes @SloweyErin @ReporterCioffi @tax @JeffOverley @TaxLaw360 @benmvaldez @mariesapirie @PerryECooper @DMoroses3244 @taxtweet @edzollars @YourVoiceAtIRS @Forbes @mjwaggonernc @TheTaxAdviser more! eidebailly.com/insights/blog…

Tax News & Views Declares Independence from Chevron and UFOs Roundup

Supreme Court allows new challenges to old rules. Can President now order IRS audits? IRA's stiff reporting rules. World UFO Day.

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Chris Cioffi@ReporterCioffi
28 Jun 2024
The Supreme Court’s blockbuster Chevron ruling will constrain environmental, consumer and financial-watchdog agencies. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

Supreme Court Overturns Chevron Rule in Blow to Agency Power

A divided US Supreme Court threw out a decades-old legal doctrine that empowered federal regulators to interpret unclear laws, issuing a blockbuster ruling that will constrain environmental, consumer...

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26 Jun 2024
Federal limits on how states may use $195 billion in Covid-19 pandemic aid didn’t survive scrutiny from the Fifth Circuit, the sixth appeals court to consider similar challenges. btaxgo.com/IpStFPv
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20 Jun 2024
NEW: Voting 7-2, the US Supreme Court upheld a 2017 tax on American-owned businesses’ foreign profits, rejecting an appeal that could have saved companies hundreds of billions of dollars. Read the full opinion here: btaxgo.com/eetz0KK
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