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<body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000" link="#003399" alink="#000000" vlink="#660000"> <center><table width=468 border=0> <tr><td><img src="images/logoBanner180x165.gif" align=left height=165 width=180 alt="Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP Tax Page [11K]"> <br clear=left><br><br></td></tr> <tr><td><a href="http://www.pillsburylaw.com" target="_top"><b>Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman <font size=-1>LLP</font></b></a> is an international law firm with offices in San Francisco, New York, Washington, D.C., Los Angeles, London, Shanghai, Tokyo and Abu Dhabi, as well as Northern Virginia, Palm Beach, Florida, Houston and Austin, Texas and San Diego, Sacramento and Palo Alto, California.<p> <font size =-1>This material is presented as a World Wide Web demonstration by the tax department of <a href="http://www.pillsburylaw.com" target="_top">Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP</a>. <A HREF="mailto:comments@pmstax.com">Comments</A> are welcome on the design or content of this material. <noscript><b>If you find any of our material contained within another site's frames, we ask that you <a href="http://www.pmstax.com/index.shtml" target="_top">use this link</a> to break out.</b></noscript></font><p><hr>  <h4>Latest Items</h4><p>  Our March 20, 2014 State & Local Tax Update, <a href="./state/ccc-140320.shtml" target="_top">California Competes Tax Credit Application Period Ends April 14, 2014</a> (4K).<p> Our February 2014 Partnership Tax Bulletin, <a href="./part/RP2014-12-1402.shtml" target="_top">IRS Issues Long-Promised Guidance Following Historic Boardwalk Decision</a> (32K). 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