• Pottstown Sch. Dist. v. Montgomery County Bd. of Assessment Appeals

    Publication Date: 2023-02-27
    Practice Area: Tax
    Industry: Health Care | Non-Profit | State and Local Government
    Court: Commonwealth Court
    Judge: Judge Cannon
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: 1217 C.D. 2021

    Trial court erred in granting real property tax exempt status to hospital because hospital did not meet the HUP test because tying executive bonus incentives to hospital's financial performance indicated a private profit motive and hospital did not show the reasonableness of the administrative and management fees it paid to health system, which was the sole member of hospital LLC. Reversed.

  • The Borough of W. Chester v. Pennsylvania State Sys. of Higher Educ.

    Publication Date: 2023-01-30
    Practice Area: Tax
    Industry: Education | State and Local Government
    Court: Commonwealth Court
    Judge: Judge Cannon
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: 260 M.D. 2018

    Local stormwater management fee constituted a tax that commonwealth entities were immune from because it funded ongoing stormwater management and flood mitigation projects that provided a general benefit or protected the public welfare, rather than providing a specific benefit to the fee payer. Respondents' motion for summary judgment granted.

  • Alcatel-Lucent USA Inc. v. Commonwealth

    Publication Date: 2023-01-16
    Practice Area: Tax
    Industry: Technology Media and Telecom
    Court: Commonwealth Court
    Judge: Judge Wojcik
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: 803 F.R. 2017

    Taxpayer was entitled to a refund to remedy a constitutional uniformity clause violation to equalize the tax positions between favored and non-favored taxpayers given that Nextel Com. of the Mid-Atlantic, Inc. v. Commonwealth, which held that the statutory flat cap on net loss deductions violated the uniformity clause, applied retroactively. The appellate court reversed and remanded for a refund.

  • City of Philadelphia v. Zig Zag, LLC

    Publication Date: 2023-01-09
    Practice Area: Tax
    Industry: Real Estate
    Court: Commonwealth Court
    Judge: Judge Wojcik
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: 832 C.D. 2021

    Trial court erred in failing to fully unwind sheriff's sale where remand order vacated both denial of property owner's motion to set aside sale and the decree authorizing the sale. Order of the trial court reversed and remanded.

  • Downs Racing, L.P. v. Commonwealth

    Publication Date: 2023-01-02
    Practice Area: Tax
    Industry: Entertainment and Leisure
    Court: Commonwealth Court
    Judge: Judge Cannon
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: 802 F.R. 2016

    Board of finance properly held petitioner was entitled to a deduction from its gross revenues under §1103 for PC Points it issued to patrons that were redeemed for appropriate items but erred in its calculation because petitioner did not track what specific items were distributed at redemption and commonwealth appropriately requested remand for recalculation of the proper deductions. Affirmed and vacated.

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  • Quality Driven Copack, Inc. v. Commonwealth

    Publication Date: 2022-12-19
    Practice Area: Tax
    Industry: Food and Beverage | State and Local Government
    Court: Commonwealth Court
    Judge: Judge McCullough
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: 862 and 879 F.R. 2013

    Taxpayer and commonwealth filed exceptions to court's holding that taxpayer was not "manufacturing" for sales and use tax purposes and its contract labor did not constitute "help supply" and court found the exceptions lacked merit. Exceptions overruled.

  • Appeal of Linehan from a Decision of the Bd. of Revision of Taxes

    Publication Date: 2022-11-28
    Practice Area: Tax
    Industry:
    Court: Commonwealth Court
    Judge: Judge Dumas
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
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    Case Number: 1167 C.D. 2020

    Court quashed appeals taken from untimely trial court order, and remanded due to trial court's failure to issue judgment that complied with the Assessment Law. Appeals quashed, orders of the trial court vacated, case remanded.

  • United States v. Weiss

    Publication Date: 2022-11-21
    Practice Area: Tax
    Industry: Federal Government
    Court: U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
    Judge: Circuit Judge Phipps
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: 21-1592

    District court properly found government filed its action to collect unpaid taxes within the statute of limitations because the statute of limitations remained tolled between the D.C. circuit's mandate and appellant's petition for a writ of certiorari and time the supreme court took to deny the petition leaving government 129 days to commence this action which it did within 64 days. Affirmed.

  • Online Merchants Guild v. Hassell

    Publication Date: 2022-09-26
    Practice Area: Tax
    Industry: E-Commerce | State and Local Government
    Court: Commonwealth Court
    Judge: Judge Ceisler
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: 179 M.D. 2021

    Parties cross-applied for summary relief in plaintiff trade association's challenge to department's effort to collect sales tax on non-Pennsylvania businesses selling merchandise through Amazon's Fulfillment by Amazon merchants program whose connections to the commonwealth were limited to Amazon's storage of their merchandise in a Pennsylvania warehouse and court found revenue department failed to show merchants showed sufficient contacts with the commonwealth to allow department to collect sales tax or PIT. Motion granted and motion

  • In re: Appeal of Coatesville Area Sch. Dist.

    Publication Date: 2022-09-05
    Practice Area: Tax
    Industry: Non-Profit | Real Estate
    Court: Commonwealth Court
    Judge: Judge Leadbetter
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: 22-0991

    The trial court did not err in finding that applicant's preservation of a historic resource constituted an advancement of a charitable purpose and that applicant had otherwise satisfied the requirements for a purely public charity in Hospital Utilization Project v. Commonwealth and the Institutions of Purely Public Charity Act. The appellate court affirmed in part and reversed in part.