Comptroller of the Treasury of Maryland v. Wynne | |
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Argued November 12, 2014 Decided May 18, 2015 | |
Full case name | Comptroller of the Treasury of Maryland v. Brian Wynne et ux. |
Docket no. | 13-485 |
Citations | 575 U.S. 542 (more) 135 S. Ct. 1787; 191 L. Ed. 2d 813 |
Case history | |
Prior | 431 Md. 147, 64 A.3d 453 (2013); cert. granted, 572 U.S. 1134 (2014). |
Holding | |
Maryland's personal income tax scheme, which consists of a state and county income tax, violated the Commerce Clause because it did not allow a credit against the county income tax for income taxes paid to other states. | |
Court membership | |
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Case opinions | |
Majority | Alito, joined by Roberts, Kennedy, Breyer, Sotomayor |
Dissent | Scalia, joined by Thomas (Parts I and II) |
Dissent | Thomas, joined by Scalia (except first paragraph) |
Dissent | Ginsburg, joined by Scalia, Kagan |
Laws applied | |
U.S. Const. art. I, § 8, cl. 3 |
Comptroller of the Treasury of Maryland v. Wynne, 575 U.S. 542 (2015), is a 2015 U.S. Supreme Court decision that applied the Dormant Commerce Clause doctrine to Maryland's personal income tax scheme and found that the failure to provide a full credit for income taxes paid to other states was unconstitutional.
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