The Tenth Circuit shouldn't allow telecommunications giant Liberty Global to rehash its defense of "economically meaningless" transactions that formed a tax avoidance strategy producing a $2.4 billion deduction correctly rejected by the IRS, the government said Wednesday.
The Tenth Circuit shouldn't allow telecommunications giant Liberty Global to rehash its defense of "economically meaningless" transactions that formed a tax avoidance strategy producing a $2.4 billion deduction correctly rejected by the IRS, the government said Wednesday.
The House Ways and Means Committee passed several bills Wednesday that would impose limits and reporting requirements on tax-exempt organizations, including legislation to require those organizations to report the amount of donations they receive from foreign nationals.
President Donald Trump's temporary global tariff is lawfully authorized under a statute allowing the executive branch to address serious balance-of-payment deficits, a term that can easily be construed to include the economic conditions referenced in the implementing order, the government told the Federal Circuit.
A Canadian man living in the United States should remain on the hook for more than $700,000 in penalties for failing to report foreign bank accounts, the U.S. government told a Washington federal court, arguing he willfully disregarded disclosure requirements.
A Georgia partnership told the U.S. Tax Court that the IRS erred in denying its $53.9 million deduction for 243 acres donated to a conservation group in 2021, citing an exploration report that said the land contained at least 53 million tons of granite.
The Internal Revenue Service improperly denied a Georgia partnership a $6 million charitable contribution deduction it claimed for the donation of a conservation easement, the partnership told the U.S. Tax Court, disputing the agency's assertion of an income tax underpayment and penalties.
The founder of a Colorado coffee equipment provider induced a California coffee equipment manufacturer and its president to acquire the company by hiding its true tax designation on a loan application, the companies and the president allege in a complaint in Colorado state court.
The U.S. Department of Labor's employee benefits subagency transmitted a proposal affecting a popular exemption to strict prohibitions on many types of transactions involving federally regulated benefit plans to a White House office for review, teeing up the regulation for release.
The U.S. Department of Labor's employee benefits arm unveiled a proposal Wednesday that would provide more opportunities for electronic delivery of employer-provided health plans' mandatory disclosures.
Congress would impose limits on taxpayers with tax-preferred retirement account balances that exceed $10 million, under legislation announced by the top Democratic tax writers in the Senate and House on Wednesday.
Members of Congress on Wednesday unveiled a bipartisan bill to legalize, regulate and tax the manufacture and sale of hemp-derived cannabinoid products, while a federal ban on virtually all consumable hemp products is still due to take effect in less than four months.
Senate Democrats called for an investigation into whether officials in President Donald Trump's administration are violating federal laws that bar political influence over federal tax audits, citing news media reports that a top Treasury Department tax official was pushed out after flagging potential violations.
The number of people who lost or renounced their U.S. citizenship totaled nearly 1,800 in the second quarter of 2026 as logged by the U.S. Treasury Department, up 68.5% year-over-year and 21.8% from the previous quarter, the IRS said Wednesday.
