Professor Ventry Comments on Sprint Nextel Appeal for Bloomberg BNA

Professor Dennis Ventry commented for Bloomberg BNA on Sprint Nextel's U.S. Supreme Court appeal of six New York state decisions.  The company is asking the Supreme Court to decide whether the state's sales tax on interstate mobile voice services is preempted by federal law. 

Professor Ventry said the petition for certiorari has no legal basis, and described it as "a last, desperate public relations grab before being forced to settle or litigate a case that New York courts have thrice refused to dismiss."

Professor Ventry is an expert in tax policy and legal ethics. His research interests include tax expenditure analysis, family taxation, professional responsibility and standards of care, tax filing and administration, tax compliance, public finance, and tax and legal history. In addition, he was recently added as a co-author on the casebook, Federal Income Taxation with Paul McDaniel, Martin McMahon, Jr., and Daniel L. Simmons.