See Reed Smith State Tax Team members speak on the following:

Leveraging AI for State Tax: From Basics to Beyond - David Gutowski and Rich Robbins

This session will explore the intersection of artificial intelligence (AI) with state tax compliance and appeal functions. The four presenters—two data scientists and two state tax professionals—will start with a basic primer on AI, including key concepts and an overview of useful tools and technologies. Next, the presenters will delve into state tax-specific use cases to illustrate how AI can be used to solve compliance challenges and streamline appeal procedures. Separating fact from fiction, the presenters will cover the practical capabilities (and current limitations) of AI and provide predictions for how the AI landscape may evolve over the next several years. Finally, the presenters will share advice and suggested learning paths for state tax professionals to begin their AI journey.

Does California Law Really Require NOLs to be Trapped into Individual Entities? - Kyle Sollie

Your unitary group generates a loss. That loss is divided up among various corporate members of a unitary group. Later, your group earns income, but the income is assigned to a different member than the member that was originally assigned the loss. So your NOL - trapped in the wrong entity - isn't useful to you when you need it. Does California law support this? We say "no"!

Pursuing Sales Tax Refunds - Brent Beissel

This session will explore how to incorporate refunds into your audit to minimize your audit exposure and maximize your refund potential. This session will look at different techniques and strategize and provide considerations to think about that will help you add value to your tax department.