Maryland Rebuts Chamber’s Take on Federal Ad Tax Case Viability

A Maryland Supreme Court ruling tossing a challenge to the state’s digital advertising tax reinforces Comptroller Brooke Lierman’s argument that the dispute belongs in state court, Lierman told the Fourth Circuit.

The state pushed back on the US Chamber of Commerce’s recent argument that the US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit should order a federal trial court to resolve the case on the merits.

Because the state supreme court confirmed the availability of a state remedy, “there is no basis to conclude that the decision of the state supreme court affects how this appeal should now proceed,” Lierman ...