Perry Cooper

Indirect owners of a Napa Valley hotel failed to convince the California Office of Tax Appeals that they should be allowed to defer tax on gain from the sale.

Massachusetts properly assessed more than $300,000 in income tax on company stock its founder sold after moving to New Hampshire, the state tax department told an appeals court.

The Florida Supreme Court won’t review Verizon Communications Inc.'s bid to reopen closed tax years to allow it to take corporate income tax deductions it didn’t realize were available.

New York was right to tax all of an investment banker’s income for 2020, even thought he worked out of his New Jersey home rather than his employer’s Manhattan office for most of the year, an administrative law judge ruled.

Wells Fargo Rail Corp. will get a Michigan public utility tax refund of about $172,000 after a judge ruled that the state wrongly barred its tax credit application filed by mail instead of online.

A recent Washington Supreme Court decision limiting the state’s business and occupation tax investment income deduction is causing anxiety among investors, who stand to face unexpected tax bills and sizable penalties in its wake.

A company hired to run recreational vehicle facilities at a public park outside Dallas is immune from property taxes at the site, because of the nature of its permit, a Texas appeals court ruled Monday.

A woman who received a severance package from her former job in Manhattan after she had moved to Hawaii still owes New York income tax on the payment, a judge ruled in an opinion posted Thursday.

Digital payments company Block Inc. appeared to convince two Georgia Court of Appeals judges during oral arguments Wednesday that it’s entitled to a $539,000 refund of occupation taxes levied by the city of Atlanta.

A DaVita Inc. subsidiary won’t get a refund of $394,000 it paid Ohio for commercial activity tax on certain services it provides to dialysis patients, the state high court ruled Monday.