Digital Ad Tax Status No Clearer After Maryland High Court Ruling (1)

The week in state tax news: The Maryland Supreme Court threw a life preserver to the state’s digital advertising tax, but the tax program’s future remains unclear because the court didn’t address the constitutional questions at the heart of the dispute. Meanwhile, there was plenty of drama in Minnesota, where the state Legislature scrapped a plan to tax the income of foreign subsidiaries of multinational corporations and began eyeing other options for raising additional revenue.

Anyone hoping for a moment of legal clarity around Maryland’s Digital Advertising Gross Revenues Tax was disappointed after the ...