Tax regulations issued in 2011

I deliver tax update presentations throughout the year (see http:www.21stcenturytaxation.com for a list of upcoming presentations - live an...

Deliberative Democracy and Tax System Improvements

In June 2011, What's Next California and a few others sponsored a Deliberative Polling with over 400 Californians participating (see my ...

Tax Complexity Due to Multiple Provisions and Future Benefits

This morning I was looking at a tax update presentation of mine from May 2010 to get some information on the enactment of the FATCA (Foreig...

Tax Reform: Status, Needs & Realities -Conference on Feb 3, 2012

TEI and SJSU are once again holding a 1 day Tax Policy Conference to provide an opportunity for people to get up to speed on the inevitabl...

Time to adjust gas tax

The federal and California gasoline excise tax are each 18 cents/gallon and have been at these low rates for many years (see CRS table ). A...

Mainstreet Fairness, Small and Equity

The House Judiciary Committee hearing of November 30, 2011 on federal legislation to allow states meeting certain simplification requirement...

More on proposals to reverse Quill

Amazingly, there are three bills in Congress to allow certain states to collect sales tax from remote (non-present) vendors. The last bill ...

BOE ideas for reducing the use tax gap

Today I came across a memo from the California Board of Equalization dated June 2011 that lists many suggestions for reducing the use tax ga...

Interesting tax development(s) of 2011

I spend a lot of time throughout the year reading, writing about and presenting on federal, multistate and California updates. This week I...

The New Marketplace and Relevance to Tax

A year ago, eBay announced its acquisition of Milo which provides online information on prices and availability in local stores. This s...

California and Incentives for Job Creation and Innovation

On 12/5/11, the California Assembly Revenue & Taxation Committee held a hearing on job creation and innovation (see prior post ). I had ...

CA Revenue & Taxation Committee holding hearing at SJSU on 12/5/11

The California Assembly Revenue & Taxation Committee is holding a hearing on the San Jose State University campus on Monday, December 5...

Governor Brown and possible rate increse proposal

The Mercury News reports that on Friday (12/2/11), Governor Brown may propose sales and income tax rate increases to address continuing bu...