Texas High Court Won’t Hear Cotton Insurance Tax Case

Law360 (June 18, 2021, 9:43 p.m. EDT) – The Texas Supreme Court said Friday it will not hear a case about the constitutionality of the state’s application of the insurance tax for excess line insurance to cotton stored in warehouses.

Insurance agency Rekerdres & Sons attempted to overturn the lawsuit and appeal against appeals court rulings that approved more than $ 82,000 in taxes levied by the Texas Auditing Agency for cotton in Lone Star State warehouses.

The company argued, among other things, that the tax levied violated the U.S. Constitution’s trade clause, the Constitution’s import-export clause, and the insurance it provided …

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