The U.S. Tax Court slashed about $62 million in tax deductions claimed by four partnerships for donations of conservation easements in Georgia on Monday, saying the partnerships did not provide the required appraisals and grossly overstated the value of their donations.
The U.S. Tax Court slashed about $62 million in tax deductions claimed by four partnerships for donations of conservation easements in Georgia on Monday, saying the partnerships did not provide the required appraisals and grossly overstated the value of their donations.
The U.S. Tax Court improperly allowed hundreds of trial exhibits in striking a Georgia partnership's $20.7 million tax deduction for donating a conservation easement, the partnership told the Eleventh Circuit, saying the government failed to address its claims that the court broke evidence rules.
The European Union's privacy law does not protect Eaton Corp. from having to disclose employee evaluation records in a transfer pricing dispute with the Internal Revenue Service, the U.S. government told the Sixth Circuit on Monday.
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's recent staff guidance that protocol staking does not constitute securities offerings provides a workable compliance blueprint for crypto developers, validators and custodial platforms willing to keep staking strictly limited to protocol-driven rewards, say attorneys at Cahill.
E-discovery has reached a turning point where document review is no longer just about procedural tasks like identifying relevance and redacting privilege — rather, generative artificial intelligence tools now allow attorneys to draw connections, extract meaning and tell a coherent story, says Rose Jones at Hilgers Graben.
The U.S. government urged a California federal court to enforce an IRS summons on Apple Inc. to produce records linked to the account of a dual Swiss-Italian citizen, arguing the summons is valid under the U.S.-Switzerland tax treaty.
The IRS met all requirements for supervisory approval of penalties it issued to two companies related to disallowed charitable contribution deductions for donated conservation easements, the U.S. Tax Court said Monday.
A Minnesota accountant and his wife who divorced through a religious ceremony were not divorced in the eyes of the law and thus can't claim the head-of-household tax filing status reserved for certain unmarried people, the U.S. Tax Court ruled.
President Donald Trump said Monday that Russia must end its war with Ukraine within the next 50 days or else the U.S. will levy "severe tariffs" on Russian goods entering the U.S.
President Donald Trump's weekend threat to impose a 30% tariff on goods imported from the European Union would "practically prohibit" trade, the EU's trade commissioner warned Monday.
Republican members of Congress expressed support Monday for the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative's efforts against what the lawmakers referred to as anti-innovation policies abroad that, they said, require U.S. companies to take on the brunt of pharmaceutical research and development.
A jury in Washington federal court has found a commercial real estate company owner guilty on charges of concealing nearly $5 million in income from the Internal Revenue Service using a series of limited liability companies.
The Internal Revenue Service's small- and large-business divisions increased audits on high-income taxpayers in 2024, but that progress will likely be jeopardized by recent staffing cuts, the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration said in a report released Monday.
