Steve Young

See’s Candies v. Utah State Tax Comm’n, 2018 UT 57 (Utah must follow the federal arm’s length transfer pricing standard for transactions between related entities rather than being allowed unfettered discretion to reallocate income anytime income decreases).

McFarlane v. Utah State Tax Comm'n, 134 P.3d 1116 (Utah 2006) (holding that resident S corporation shareholders are entitled to a credit for any tax paid in another state that is measured by income).

Chambers v. Utah State Tax Comm'n, Case No. 050402915 (Utah Tax Court 2007) (holding an extraordinary 338(h)(10) gain to be non-business income).

Utah State Tax Comm’n Decisions 16-1358 (2022) & 99-0652 (2000) (under the U.S. Constitution as interpreted in Meadwestvaco v. Ill. Dep’t of Revenue, 533 U.S. 16 (2008), Utah cannot apportion a gain if the asset sold is a business (including a corporation or partnership) and the business sold is not unitary with the seller).

Utah State Tax Comm’n Decision 16-155 (2018) (a taxpayer's economic activities must be considered in determining whether a taxpayer is a sales factor weighted taxpayer).

Utah State Tax Comm’n Decision 18-1582 (2019) (tax notice was untimely where it was not sent within the statute of limitations period to the address listed on the tax return under audit).

Helped craft, draft, and lobby through bills over several years moving Utah to a single sales factor.

Buck v. Utah State Tax Comm’n, 2022 UT 11 (Represented several amici to help establish that, under the Utah statutes and the U.S. Constitution, taxpayers are allowed to present any evidence to establish they have moved from Utah).

Helped craft, draft, and lobby through legislation in 2022 creating a business income election in Utah.

Rent-A-Center v. Utah State Tax Comm’n, 2016 UT 1 (rental waiver charges cannot be taxed because they were not expressly included in tax base by the Legislature).

Utah State Tax Comm’n Case No. 12-2871 (2016) (items sold outside Utah are entitled to the sales tax resale exclusion).

Utah State Tax Comm’n Case No. 05-1531 (2008) (royalties paid to extract gravel are tied to a real property interest rather than a sale of personal property and are thus not subject to Utah sales tax).

Helped craft, draft, and lobby through legislation over various years exempting all manufacturing and mining inputs from sales tax in Utah.

Helped craft, draft, and lobby through legislation in 2020 and 2022 clarifying that lessons are not subject to Utah sales and use tax.

Helped craft, draft, and lobby through legislation clarifying that amounts paid to access data are not subject to Utah sales and use tax.

Helped craft, draft, and lobby through legislation in 2023 to maintain a sales tax policy in the sand and gravel industry that is uniform amongst taxpayers and fairly sources the taxes to cities.

Helped craft, draft and lobby through legislation in 2023 to avoid double taxation of the car sharing industry.

Utah State Tax Comm’n Decision 14-45 (2016) (in valuing a natural resource property, the Property Tax Division is allowed to reconcile the income and cost indicators of value, and is not required to use the higher of the two).

T-Mobile v. Utah State Tax Comm'n, 254 P.3d 752 (Utah 2011) (holding that goodwill is not subject to property tax in Utah).

WilTel, Inc. v. Beaver County, Utah State Tax Comm’n Case No. 98-0169 (filed amicus on behalf of numerous taxpayers in support of the Tax Commission’s ruling that property tax may not be imposed on intangible property, which was upheld in Beaver County v. WilTel, 2000 UT 29).

Amoco v. Utah State Tax Comm'n, Utah Tax Court Case No. 980406701 (Utah Tax Court 2001) (holding that an after-tax DCF must be used to value oil and gas reserves in Utah for property tax purposes).

Helped craft, draft, and lobby through legislation in 2022 uniformly imposing property tax on all telecommunications properties in Utah.

Helped craft, draft, and lobby through legislation in 2022 relating to the taxation of pollution control equipment for refineries in Utah.

Worked with non-profits and government authorities to craft, draft, and lobby through legislation in 2020 specifying and clarifying how the non-profit property tax exemption is applied in Utah.

Anadarko Petro. Corp. v. Utah State Tax Comm’n, 2015 UT 25 (non-taxable federal, state, and tribal interests must be excluded from all portions of the oil and gas severance tax calculation).

ExxonMobil v. Utah State Tax Comm’n, 2003 UT 53 (filed amicus brief in support of several taxpayers in support of the Utah Supreme Court’s ruling that costs downstream from the wellhead are deductible).

Helped craft, draft, and lobby through legislation in 2004 clarifying that all costs downstream from the wellhead are deductible, and in 2016 clarifying that non-taxable federal, state, and tribal interests must be excluded from all portions of the oil and gas severance tax calculation.