The Fifth Circuit has issued a long-awaited opinion holding that partners with limited liability under state law qualify for an exclusion from the self-employment tax, and the decision offers five notable takeaways that experts said may shed light on the potential fate of partnership taxation and compliance.
The Fifth Circuit has issued a long-awaited opinion holding that partners with limited liability under state law qualify for an exclusion from the self-employment tax, and the decision offers five notable takeaways that experts said may shed light on the potential fate of partnership taxation and compliance.
The Internal Revenue Service defended its slashing of $315 million from a tax deduction that medical giant Siemens claimed on payments from overseas, telling the U.S. Tax Court that rule writers had congressional backing to issue the regulations underpinning the adjustment.
A star government witness and the top outside accountant for SCOTUSblog founder Thomas Goldstein and his law firm admitted to making mistakes on Goldstein's tax returns and offering the grand jury erroneous testimony, under cross-examination in the U.S. Supreme Court lawyer's tax fraud trial Wednesday.
Two Senate Finance Committee Democrats pressed Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Attorney General Pam Bondi on whether Treasury was working with President Donald Trump to secure him a settlement in his $10 billion taxpayer privacy lawsuit against the IRS, according to a letter released Wednesday.
Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP scored a significant victory for Exxon Mobil in litigation concerning the tax treatment of a major partnership with Qatar and oversaw several other complex, high-stakes transactions, earning it recognition as a 2025 Law360 Tax Practice Group of the Year.
A partnership argued for restoring its $43 million tax deduction for protecting historic property in Kentucky that included a 19th century post office, telling the U.S. Tax Court that the IRS had arbitrarily rejected its claim.
A Manhattan federal judge on Wednesday repeatedly aired doubts that President Donald Trump can upend the pending New York state appeal of his hush-money conviction by moving the case to federal court.
A Washington, D.C., local law that uncouples elements of the city's tax code from federal tax law would be repealed under a resolution passed in the U.S. House of Representatives on Wednesday.
Walmart asked the U.S. Department of the Treasury to temporarily allow certain taxpayers to file a single 13-month return, instead of two separate returns, in the wake of filing changes regarding controlled foreign corporations, according to a letter released Wednesday.
