ALOHA FREIGHTWAYS, INC. v. COMMISSIONER OF REVENUE


428 Mass. 418 (1998)

ALOHA FREIGHTWAYS, INC. v. COMMISSIONER OF REVENUE.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk.

November 19, 1998.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Wesley S. Chused for the taxpayer.

Thomas A. Barnico, Assistant Attorney General, for Commissioner of Revenue.

Daniel R. Barney, Robert Digges, Jr., & George A. Berman for American Trucking Associations, Inc., amicus curiae, submitted a brief.

Present: WILKINS, C.J., ABRAMS, LYNCH, GREANEY, FRIED, MARSHALL, & IRELAND, JJ.


IRELAND, J.

This case concerns a challenge to G. L. c. 63, § 39, which establishes the excise imposed on foreign corporations. In 1987, the Commissioner of Revenue (commissioner) determined that Aloha Freightways, Inc. (Aloha), an Illinois-based trucking company, had a substantial nexus with Massachusetts, triggering the imposition of an excise under G. L. c. 63, § 39. Aloha was notified that it had failed to file corporate excise returns for the years 1980...

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