ALABAMA Income Tax Law Survives Challenge

The Alabama Court of Civil Appeals on Friday overturned a lower court decision in a corporate tax case that might have resulted in a a multimillion-dollar revenue loss to the state. The vote wasn't close. The 5-0 order by the appeals court reversed Circuit Judge Tracy McCooey of Montgomery, who had ruled that VFJ Ventures' (Vanity Fair) deductions were not unreasonable as that term was defined in the law. What was the definition of "unreasonable" in the law. That was the key to the lower court's ruling -- it was not defined.

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