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  • June 02, 2025

    IRS To Hold Hearing On Sourcing Cloud Transaction Income

    The Internal Revenue Service and U.S. Treasury Department will hold a hearing July 17 on proposed rules on the source of income from cloud transactions, they said Monday.

  • May 30, 2025

    Split 9th Circ. Won't Unblock Trump's Gov't Overhaul

    A split Ninth Circuit on Friday refused to lift a California federal judge's preliminary block of President Donald Trump's executive order directing layoffs at federal agencies, handing a win to a coalition of unions, nonprofits and cities that argue the order exceeded the president's authority.

  • May 30, 2025

    US-China Trade Talks Could Resume After Stall Over Minerals

    Stalled trade talks between the U.S. and China could resume with a phone call between the countries' leaders as early as this week, a Trump economic adviser said Sunday.

  • May 30, 2025

    Convicted Crypto Investor's Wife Says Gov't Can't Seize Funds

    The wife of a bitcoin investor sentenced to prison for concealing millions of dollars from the IRS asked a Texas federal court Friday to stop the federal government from taking her money to help make up for $1 million in restitution stemming from his cryptocurrency sales.

  • May 30, 2025

    IRS Failed To Alert Thousands To Contractor's Data Breach

    Approximately 12,200 letters the Internal Revenue Service sent to individuals and businesses whose tax information was stolen by a former agency contractor were undeliverable for issues such as not having complete addresses, the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration said.

  • May 30, 2025

    IRS Slow To Convert Nontax Forms To Digital, TIGTA Says

    Only 12% of the Internal Revenue Service's 280 nontax paper forms that require one or more signatures have been converted to digital formats, though plans have been made to speed the process, the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration reported.

  • May 30, 2025

    Pa. Couple Should Pay $1.77M Tax Bill, Judge Says

    A Pennsylvania couple who purchased a Maserati and a Porsche and took trips to international destinations while owing the Internal Revenue Service $1.77 million should be required to pay those tax debts, a Pennsylvania federal magistrate judge found.

  • May 30, 2025

    Ohio Judge Slams Eaton For Ongoing IRS Disclosure Fight

    An Ohio federal judge denied Eaton Corp.'s bid to withhold foreign employee evaluations from the IRS, ruling Friday that the power management multinational's "astounding amount of effort" to fight disclosure has been a poor use of judicial resources.

  • May 30, 2025

    Taxation With Representation: Kirkland, Cravath, Latham

    In this week's Taxation With Representation, WiseTech completes a $2.1 billion merger with E2open, Acrisure buys a payroll management company for $1.1 billion and Hailey Bieber sells her Rhode skincare and makeup company to e.l.f. beauty for $1 billion.

  • May 30, 2025

    Tax 'Magician' Gets 4 Years For $145M Return Fraud

    A tax preparer who falsified returns to the tune of $145 million in tax losses to the federal government was sentenced to four years in prison — half of what prosecutors had pushed for — after telling a New York federal court that he meant to help poor customers.

  • May 30, 2025

    Weekly Internal Revenue Bulletin

    The Internal Revenue Service's weekly bulletin, issued Friday, included updated interest rates for overpayments and underpayments of tax for the quarter beginning in July.

  • May 29, 2025

    Staffing Co. Seeks $10.8M Tax Refund Under COVID Program

    A staffing company sued the U.S. government for a $10.8 million employment tax refund, telling a Georgia federal court that the IRS has failed to provide payroll tax credits the agency owed the business under a coronavirus relief program.

  • May 29, 2025

    DC Court Blocks Trump's Tariffs As Overreach Of Power

    The International Emergency Economic Powers Act does not empower the president to impose tariffs, the D.C. federal district court said Thursday, ruling that President Donald Trump's global levies are unlawful and barring his administration from enforcing them on two toymakers who challenged the policies.

  • May 29, 2025

    Fed. Circ. Revives Trump Tariffs As It Weighs Appeal

    The Federal Circuit temporarily reinstated President Donald Trump's global tariffs Thursday, a day after the U.S. Court of International Trade held that an emergency law did not give the president "unbounded authority" to impose the measures.

  • May 29, 2025

    IRS Delaying $11M Worker Tax Credit Payout, Hospital Says

    A hospital forced to suspend its normal business as it responded to the COVID-19 pandemic told a Washington federal court Thursday that it's entitled to an $11.5 million tax refund for employee retention credits and that the IRS has failed to deliver the promised aid.

  • May 29, 2025

    Flexjet Predecessor Must Pay $24M In Excise Taxes On Fees

    An aviation company whose customers pay to share private jets owes $24 million in excise taxes under an Ohio federal court ruling that found the Internal Revenue Service gave the company precise guidance that it was required to collect taxes from its customers on monthly management fees.

  • May 29, 2025

    Biz Group Calls On EU To Resolve Pillar 2 Dispute With US

    The European Union should work quickly to resolve problems with the Pillar Two global minimum corporate tax and its interaction with the U.S. tax system, the American Chamber of Commerce for the EU said.

  • May 29, 2025

    Trump Pardons Former NY Rep. Convicted Of Tax Crime

    President Donald Trump granted clemency to two former lawmakers convicted of tax crimes, including a former New York Republican congressman who pled guilty to one count of aiding in the preparation of a fraudulent tax return in 2014, the White House confirmed Thursday.

  • May 29, 2025

    IRS Annual Gross Collections Top $5 Trillion For First Time

    The Internal Revenue Service collected $5.1 trillion in gross revenue in fiscal year 2024, a 9% increase over last year's $4.7 trillion total, marking the first time the tax haul has been above $5 trillion, the agency said Thursday.

  • May 28, 2025

    International Trade Court Strikes Down Trump's Tariffs

    The International Emergency Economic Powers Act does not give the president the "unbounded authority" to impose tariffs on goods from nearly every country in the world, the U.S. Court of International Trade ruled Wednesday, handing a win to small businesses and states challenging some of President Donald Trump's steep tariffs.

  • May 28, 2025

    Fintech Group Warns Remittance Tax Will Hurt Consumers

    The American Fintech Council sent a letter to members of Congress asking them to reconsider a proposed tax on remittances that is a part of the $3.8 trillion bill to extend and make permanent the Republican Party's 2017 tax overhaul law, also known as The One Big Beautiful Bill Act.

  • May 28, 2025

    Coinbase Users Sue Over Terraform Token Conversion Losses

    A group of crypto buyers sued Coinbase Global Inc. over losses they say they incurred from the crypto exchange's actions in the wake of the historic Terraform collapse, accusing Coinbase of muddling the process of converting their assets and providing them with inaccurate tax documents.

  • May 28, 2025

    Stay Won't Be Lifted On Claims Over $93M Real Estate Fraud

    Victims of a $93 million Miami real estate development scheme won't be able to pursue their claims — at least for now — against the company's former CEO after a Florida federal judge on Wednesday denied their request to lift a stay on litigation during a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission receivership.

  • May 28, 2025

    Execs Smuggled Billions In Goods To Skirt Duties, Feds Say

    Two California shipping company executives have been charged with smuggling billions of dollars' worth of goods from the United States into Mexico — avoiding millions of dollars in duties to Mexico — using bogus documents, shell companies, bribes to public officials and kickbacks to drug cartels.

  • May 28, 2025

    4 Big Questions Raised By International Retaliatory Tax In GOP Bill

    Republicans' evolving international retaliatory tax proposal has been viewed as an effort to influence foreign tax regimes and as a possible tool in global tax and trade talks, but it has sparked concerns that it could escalate a trade war or otherwise hurt the U.S. economy. Here, Law360 explores four questions raised by the proposal.

Expert Analysis

  • E-Discovery Quarterly: The Perils Of Digital Data Protocols

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    Though stipulated protocols governing the treatment of electronically stored information in litigation are meant to streamline discovery, recent disputes demonstrate that certain missteps in the process can lead to significant inefficiencies, say attorneys at Sidley.

  • Maximizing Exemptions Before TCJA Rides Into The Sunset

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    Individuals with taxable estates can optimize the benefits of estate planning strategies like spousal lifetime access trusts by setting them up before increases in estate and gift tax exemptions under the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act sunset in January, say attorneys at Katten.

  • A Cold War-Era History Lesson On Due Process

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    The landmark Harry Bridges case from the mid-20th century Red Scare offers important insights on why lawyers must be free of government reprisal, no matter who their client is, says Peter Afrasiabi at One LLP.

  • How BigLaw Executive Orders May Affect Smaller Firms

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    Because of the types of cases they take on, solo practitioners, small law firms and public interest attorneys may find themselves more dramatically affected by the collective impact of recent government action involving the legal industry than even the BigLaw firms named in the executive orders, says Reuben Guttman at Guttman Buschner.

  • Lawsuits Shouldn't Be Shadow Assets For Foreign Capital

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    Third-party litigation financing amplifies inefficiencies from litigation and facilitates national exposure to foreign influence in the U.S. justice system, so full disclosure of financing arrangements should be required as a matter of institutional integrity, says Roland Eisenhuth at the American Property Casualty Insurance Association.

  • How To Accelerate Your Post-Attorney Career Transition

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    Professionals seeking to transition to nonattorney careers may encounter skepticism as nontraditional candidates, but there are opportunities for thought leadership and to leverage speaking and writing to accelerate a post-attorney career transition, say Janet Falk at Falk Communications and Evgeny Efremkin at Toronto Metropolitan University.

  • Tariffs And FCA Create Perfect Storm For Importers

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    The Trump administration's aggressive tariff policies pose a high risk to certain importation practices that are particularly likely to trigger False Claims Act enforcement, say attorneys at Jeffer Mangels.

  • US Reassessment Of OECD Tax Deal Is Right Move

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    The wholesale U.S. reevaluation of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development's global tax deal ordered by President Donald Trump is a positive step that could ultimately create a more durable international tax system, says Anne Gordon at the National Foreign Trade Council.

  • Measuring And Mitigating Harm From Discriminatory Taxes

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    In response to new tariffs and other recent "America First Trade Policy" pronouncements, corporations should assess and take steps to minimize their potential exposure to discriminatory and reciprocal tax measures that are likely to come, say economists at Charles River Associates.

  • Adapting To Private Practice: From DOJ Leadership To BigLaw

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    The move from government service to private practice can feel like changing one’s identity, but as someone who has left the U.S. Department of Justice twice, I’ve learned that a successful transition requires patience, effort and the realization that the rewards of practicing law don’t come from one particular position, says Richard Donoghue at Pillsbury.

  • How The CRE Industry Is Adapting To Tariff Uncertainty

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    Amid uncertainty about pending tariffs and their potential ripple effects, including higher material costs, supply chain delays and tighter margins, commercial real estate industry players are focusing on strategic planning and risk mitigation, says Daniel Diaz Leyva at Day Pitney.

  • Law Firm Executive Orders Create A Legal Ethics Minefield

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    Recent executive orders targeting BigLaw firms create ethical dilemmas — and raise the specter of civil or criminal liability — for the government attorneys tasked with implementing them and for the law firms that choose to make agreements with the administration, say attorneys at Buchalter.

  • Trade Policy Shifts Raise Hurdles For Gov't And Cos. Alike

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    The persistent tension between the Trump administration's fast-moving and aggressive trade policies and the compliance-heavy nature of the trade industry creates implementation challenges for both the business community and the government, says Sara Schoenfeld at Kamerman.

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