Challengers to Maryland’s Digital Ad Tax Not Going Quietly

The lead counsel in a high-profile challenge to the constitutionality of Maryland’s digital advertising tax said the levy has the shelf life of a “Hula Hoop” despite his client’s recent loss in front of the state Supreme Court.

In his first substantive comments following the Maryland high court’s May 9 decision turning away Comcast and Verizon’s legal objections to the state’s one-of-a-kind Digital Advertising Gross Revenues Tax, attorney Jeffrey Friedman insisted that the tax would eventually be struck down. Friedman, a state and local tax partner at Eversheds Sutherland LLP, also warned states considering the levy ...