A Victory for Interstate Commerce

On Monday, the Supreme Court ruled 5-4 that Maryland’s individual income tax system unconstitutionally discriminates against interstate commerce. The Court’s decision in Maryland Comptroller v. Wynne is a decisive victory for free interstate trade. The Court’s majority opinion relied heavily on economic principles detailed in an amicus brief filed by myself, Alan J. Auerbach, Alex Brill, Christopher DeMuth, Brian Galle, Kevin A. Hassett, R. Glenn Hubbard, and Robert J. Shapiro and similar arguments in an amicus brief filed by Michael Knoll and Ruth Mason. David Daniels and Margaret Meyers of Richards Kibbe & Orbe LLP provided us with superb pro bono legal representation in the filing of our brief.

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