SALT Cap Workaround – Ohio provides PTE investors who elect workaround with income tax benefit.
April 13, 2021
Individuals are limited to deducting $10,000 ($5,000 for married filing separate) of state and local taxes (SALT) on their Federal income tax. Generally, income earned by pass-through entities (PTE) is taxed at the investor level, meaning business owners lose a valuable Federal income tax deduction for state taxes paid on income earned by businesses they… Read More
Ohio Domicile: Taxpayer could have prevailed with simple affidavit
March 25, 2021
In a recent Board of Tax Appeals Case, taxpayers contested the Department’s assessment of personal income taxes for 2014-16, asserting that they were not Ohio residents. See Anthony R. Joy & Robin E. Miller, (et. Al.), v. Jeffrey A. Mcclain, Ohio BTA Case No. 2020-239. However, the taxpayers made two critical mistakes that ultimately resulted in… Read More
Ohio Commercial Activity Tax: Proposed Rule Allows Retroactive Consolidated Filing Election
November 17, 2020
In our previous post, we explained the Ohio Department of Taxation proposed a regulation change to limit a taxpayer’s ability to make a retroactive consolidated filing election for Ohio Commercial Activity Tax purposes (CAT). The rule change is in response to a BTA decision where a taxpayer was permitted to make a retroactive consolidated filing… Read More
Ohio CAT – Ohio Supreme Court holds sale of intangible contract rights sitused outside Ohio
September 29, 2020
Ohio Commercial Activity Tax – Ohio Supreme Court applies market-based sourcing and grants taxpayer refund by situsing intangible revenue to purchaser’s physical locations. Situsing gross receipts often becomes a contentious issue in Ohio Commercial Activity Tax (CAT) audits partially due to the lack of guidance applying Ohio’s market-based sourcing statute. The Ohio Supreme Court has… Read More