Federal

  • April 04, 2024

    Attys Awarded $1.5M In Fees On Tax Disclosure Suit

    Attorneys who won a $4.5 million settlement for a class of investors claiming a Chinese startup misrepresented its tax liability will receive their requested $1.5 million in attorney fees, a New York federal judge ruled.

  • April 04, 2024

    IRS Pushes Back Deadlines For Some RI Taxpayers

    Taxpayers in three Rhode Island counties will have until July to file federal tax returns and make payments under an extension granted because of January storms and flooding, the Internal Revenue Service said Thursday.

  • April 04, 2024

    IRS Pushes Back Tax Deadlines After Maine Storms

    Certain Maine taxpayers will have additional time to file tax returns and make payments following storms and flooding in parts of the state, the Internal Revenue Service said Thursday.

  • April 04, 2024

    Ex-IRS Agent Caused $42.5M In Tax Loss As Preparer, US Says

    A tax preparer who once worked for the Internal Revenue Service should be permanently barred from preparing federal returns because he caused an estimated $42.5 million in tax losses by scheming to underestimate his clients' liabilities, the government told a Washington federal court.

  • April 04, 2024

    Beyoncé's $3M Tax Trial Postponed

    The trial scheduled for May in Beyoncé's challenge to a $3 million tax deficiency has been delayed, according to an order Thursday by the U.S. Tax Court.

  • April 04, 2024

    Project Owners Eager To Sell Energy Tax Credits, Report Says

    Project owners are pursuing new financing strategies that would support the early sale of their clean energy tax credits as more projects in their initial development stage this year seek to capitalize on the incentives as early as possible, a report released Thursday said.

  • April 03, 2024

    NJ Tax Preparer Accused Of $150M COVID Relief Fraud

    A New Jersey tax preparer has been indicted over what prosecutors are calling a yearslong scheme in which he filed more than 1,600 bogus tax forms seeking over $150 million in COVID-19-related employment tax credits for his clients and his own businesses that they weren't eligible for, the U.S. Department of Justice announced Wednesday.

  • April 03, 2024

    IRS Says $28M In Fines Against Microsemi Adhered To Rules

    The Internal Revenue Service is again pressing the U.S. Tax Court to rule that it followed supervisory approval requirements when it imposed nearly $28 million in penalties against semiconductor manufacturer Microsemi in a transfer pricing dispute.

  • April 03, 2024

    McDermott Adds Ex-Baker McKenzie Tax Pro In Chicago

    The former chair of Baker McKenzie's Chicago tax practice group has joined McDermott Will & Emery LLP and will work as a partner in the firm's Chicago office, McDermott said Wednesday.

  • April 03, 2024

    Construction Co. Owner Pleads Guilty In Payroll Tax Case

    A construction company owner admitted to not paying more than $800,000 in employer and employee payroll taxes, the U.S. Department of Justice announced.

  • April 03, 2024

    Aflac Matriarch's Estate Tells Tax Court IRS Can't Bill $9.8M

    The Internal Revenue Service improperly issued an assessment of almost $9.8 million against the estate of a matriarch of the family who founded insurance company Aflac, the estate told the U.S. Tax Court.

  • April 03, 2024

    Salesman Admits Lying To IRS In Tax Preparer's Refund Scam

    A timeshare salesman who benefited from a scheme that inflated tax refunds pled guilty to obstruction after lying to Internal Revenue Service agents who sought to collect his 2015 tax refund. 

  • April 03, 2024

    Fed. Circ. Backs Firing IRS Agent Who Golfed On Agency Time

    A former senior appraiser for the Internal Revenue Service was appropriately fired for golfing on company time, a federal appeals court affirmed Wednesday.

  • April 02, 2024

    Hunter Biden Can't Toss 'Vindictive' Criminal Tax Charges

    Hunter Biden lost his bid to end his criminal tax case over claims his prosecution is vindictive and politically motivated, among other arguments, after a California federal judge ruled Monday that Biden "filed his motion without any evidence" and merely "cites portions of various internet news sources, social media posts and legal blogs."

  • April 02, 2024

    Ex-Fuddruckers Franchisee Can't Use NOLs, 11th Circ. Affirms

    The U.S. Tax Court correctly ruled that the former owner of failing Fuddruckers franchises cannot deduct $1.8 million in carryover net operating losses because she did not show enough evidence she was entitled to the deductions, the Eleventh Circuit affirmed Tuesday.

  • April 02, 2024

    Challenges To IRS' Regs On SALT Cap Workarounds Tossed

    The Internal Revenue Service and the U.S. Treasury Department won't face challenges from three states and a village in New York to final regulations barring workarounds to the cap on state and local tax deductions due to a New York federal judge's decision.

  • April 02, 2024

    Feds Seek Use Of 'Intertwined' Evidence In NC Tax Fraud Trial

    Federal prosecutors have asked a North Carolina district court to permit tangential evidence in a tax fraud trial, saying that the evidence is "inextricably intertwined with the charged conduct" of two St. Louis attorneys and a North Carolina insurance agent.

  • April 02, 2024

    NJ Business Owner Charged With Tax Evasion, Failure To File

    A New Jersey fireproofing and painting business owner has been charged with 12 counts of failure to file tax returns and six counts of tax evasion, New Jersey federal prosecutors said.

  • April 02, 2024

    COVID Delay Makes Ohio Pair's Filing Timely, Tax Court Says

    The petition of an Ohio couple was timely filed because they were entitled to a 60-day postponement during the early days of the coronavirus pandemic, the U.S. Tax Court ruled Tuesday.

  • April 02, 2024

    Estate Owes $38K Tax Deficiency, 9th Circ. Affirms

    The estate of a woman whose trust transferred $1.06 million to her son before she died owes $38,000 in federal estate taxes because some transfers were loans to prop up his architecture practice, the Ninth Circuit affirmed.

  • April 01, 2024

    US Support For Pillar 1 Still In Question After House Inquiry

    U.S. lawmakers signaled that they think technical and other issues remain in the OECD's Pillar One taxing rights overhaul during a recent House subcommittee meeting, casting further doubt on the plan's implementation as the timeline to finalize it has slipped.

  • April 01, 2024

    Adviser Gets 4 Years For Fraud, Filing False Tax Returns

    An Indiana investment adviser was sentenced to four years in prison and ordered to pay $6.4 million in restitution for stealing $4.7 million from a client and filing false returns, the U.S. Department of Justice announced.

  • April 01, 2024

    Justices Won't Review Mortgage Vehicles' Tax Break

    The U.S. Supreme Court declined Monday to take up a case from a group of whistleblowers who pressed for an Internal Revenue Service review of tax-exempt status for real estate mortgage investment conduits.

  • April 01, 2024

    Feds Back Guilty Verdict After Software Execs' Tax Fraud Trial

    Federal prosecutors on Monday defended a jury verdict finding two former software executives in North Carolina guilty of failing to pay employment taxes, saying sufficient evidence supported their convictions.

  • April 01, 2024

    BakerHostetler Adds Partner To Tax Practice Group

    BakerHostetler's Washington office has added a partner from Morris Manning and Martin LLP to join its tax practice group, Baker said in a statement Monday.

Expert Analysis

  • Maximizing Law Firm Profitability In Uncertain Times

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    As threats of an economic downturn loom, firms can boost profits by embracing the power of bottom-line management and creating an ecosystem where strategic financial oversight and robust timekeeping practices meet evolved client relations, says Shireen Hilal at Maior Strategic Consulting.

  • Enforcement Of International Tax Reporting Is Heating Up

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    Since the U.S. Supreme Court’s February decision in Bittner v. U.S. changed how penalties for failure to report offshore accounts are calculated, recent developments suggest the government is preparing to step up enforcement and vigorously pursue the collection of resulting penalties, say Daniel Silva and Agustin Ceballos at Buchalter.

  • How Gov't Agencies Will Fare In The Event Of A Shutdown

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    With a federal shutdown potentially set to begin at the end of this month, it may be useful to consider the approximate timelines that agencies such as the Federal Trade Commission and IRS have announced for curtailing operations, and potential strategies for mitigating challenges that may arise while agency functions are limited, say attorneys at Cleary.

  • IRS Notice Clarifies R&E Amortization, But Questions Remain

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    The IRS and Treasury Department’s recent notice clarifying the treatment of specified research and experimental expenditures under Section 174 provides taxpayers and practitioners with substantive guidance, but it misses the mark in delineating which expenditures are amortizable, say attorneys at Eversheds Sutherland.

  • Preparing Your Legal Department For Pillar 2 Compliance

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    Multinational entities should familiarize themselves with Pillar Two of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development’s BEPs 2.0 project and prepare their internal legal tracking systems for related reporting requirements that may go into effect as early as January, says Daniel Robyn at Ernst & Young.

  • What Large Language Models Mean For Document Review

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    Courts often subject parties using technology assisted review to greater scrutiny than parties conducting linear, manual document review, so parties using large language models for document review should expect even more attention, along with a corresponding need for quality control and validation, say attorneys at Sidley.

  • Participating In Living History Makes Me A Better Lawyer

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    My role as a baron in a living history group, and my work as volunteer corporate counsel for a book series fan association, has provided me several opportunities to practice in unexpected areas of law — opening doors to experiences that have nurtured invaluable personal and professional skills, says Matthew Parker at the Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services.

  • Private Equity Owners Can Remedy Law Firms' Agency Issues

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    Nonlawyer, private-equity ownership of law firms can benefit shareholders and others vulnerable to governance issues such as disparate interests, and can in turn help resolve agency problems, says Michael Di Gennaro at The Law Practice Exchange.

  • Kentucky Tax Talk: Taking Up The Dormant Commerce Clause

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    Attorneys at Frost Brown examine whether the U.S. Supreme Court is likely to review Foresight Coal Sales v. Kent Chandler to consider whether a Kentucky utility rate law discriminates against interstate commerce, and how the decision may affect dormant commerce clause jurisprudence.

  • Prevailing Wage Rules Complicate Inflation Act Tax Incentives

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    Nicole Elliott and Timothy Taylor at Holland & Knight discuss the intersection between tax and labor newly created by the Inflation Reduction Act, and focus on aspects of recent U.S. Department of Labor and U.S. Department of the Treasury rules that may catch tax-incentive seekers off guard.

  • Payroll Tax Evasion Notice Suggests FinCEN's New Focus

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    The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network’s recent notice advising U.S. financial institutions to report payroll tax evasion and workers' compensation schemes in the construction industry suggests a growing interest in tax enforcement and IRS collaboration, as well as increased scrutiny in the construction sector, say Andrew Weiner and Jay Nanavati at Kostelanetz.

  • How Taxpayers Can Prep As Justices Weigh Repatriation Tax

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    The U.S. Supreme Court might strike down the 2017 federal tax overhaul's corporate repatriation tax in Moore v. U.S., so taxpayers should file protective tax refund claims before the case is decided and repatriate previously taxed earnings that could become entangled in dubious potential Section 965 refunds, say Jenny Austin and Gary Wilcox at Mayer Brown.

  • IRS Foreign Tax Credit Pause Is Welcome Course Correction

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    A recent IRS notice temporarily suspending application of 2022 foreign tax credit regulations provides wanted relief for the many U.S. multinational companies and other taxpayers that otherwise face the risk of significant double taxation in their international operations, say attorneys at Mayer Brown.

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