Federal

  • April 15, 2025

    Trump's Tariff Reprieves Buy Lawyers Time To Strategize

    President Donald Trump's expanded tariff exclusion for electronic goods from China and the pause on higher rates for all countries except China gives lawyers an opportunity to seek mitigation solutions for importers, but the moves do little to create long-term business certainty.

  • April 15, 2025

    IRS Issues Corp. Bond Monthly Yield Curve For April

    The IRS published the corporate bond monthly yield curve Tuesday for use in calculations for defined benefit plans for April, as well as corresponding segment rates and other related provisions.

  • April 15, 2025

    Treasury Should Scrap Cloud Computing Rules, NFTC Says

    The U.S. Treasury Department should withdraw proposed regulations for determining the source of income from cloud computing, according to the National Foreign Trade Council, which contended the rules add significant complexity to digital transactions.

  • April 14, 2025

    IRS-ICE Info Pact Lacks Needed Safeguards, Experts Say

    The IRS recently agreed to share confidential tax return data with immigration enforcement agencies for criminal proceedings, saying the agreement complied with privacy laws, but tax and privacy experts said they had concerns that the deal was vague and lacked safeguards to ensure the information is lawfully used.

  • April 14, 2025

    The Tax Angle: TCJA Lobbying, IRS Staff Cuts

    From a look at a report on corporate tax lobbyists working to renew the 2017 tax law to another assessing the impact of IRS budget cuts and staff reductions on audit activity, here's a peek into a reporter's notebook on a few of the week's developing tax stories.

  • April 14, 2025

    Treasury, DOGE Scrap 9 IRS Guidance Docs As Unnecessary

    The White House's Department of Government Efficiency cut nine IRS guidance documents Monday that it said were unnecessary because they were obsolete, outdated or covered by other rules and regulations, including one related to a topic addressed by the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act.

  • April 14, 2025

    DOJ Resists Airing Full ICE Pact On Taxpayer Data Sharing

    The U.S. government objected Monday to releasing an unredacted copy of a tax-information-sharing agreement between the IRS and immigration enforcement agencies sought by groups seeking to block the disclosure, telling a D.C. federal court that it would reveal sensitive information and law enforcement techniques.

  • April 14, 2025

    IRS Delays Tax Deadlines For Tenn., Ark. After Storms

    Taxpayers in Tennessee and Arkansas will have until Nov. 3 to file individual and business tax returns and make payments after the states were hit by severe storms and tornadoes this month, the Internal Revenue Service said Monday.

  • April 14, 2025

    Property Trustees Settle $1M Refund Dispute With IRS

    Trustees of a California property and the IRS agreed to settle a nearly $1 million tax refund dispute over whether the property was being used for business and whether the trust was therefore allowed to carry back operating losses generated in 2017 and 2018.

  • April 14, 2025

    IRS Cancels Hearing On Commercial Green Vehicle Credits

    The Internal Revenue Service on Monday canceled a hearing scheduled for April 28 on proposed rules for obtaining tax credits for commercial green vehicles under provisions of the Inflation Reduction Act.

  • April 11, 2025

    IRS Waives Penalties For Some Late Microcaptive Disclosures

    Certain participants in reportable microcaptive insurance transactions will have penalties waived in cases where they fail to file required disclosure statements due April 14, so long as they file them by July 31, the Internal Revenue Service said Friday.

  • April 11, 2025

    Feds Seek Release Of Informant Who Falsely Accused Bidens

    California federal prosecutors are seeking the release of a former FBI informant who is serving a six-year prison sentence for falsely telling agents that former President Joe Biden and his son Hunter Biden had accepted bribes from a Ukrainian energy company.

  • April 11, 2025

    Family Should Face Charges In $81M Tax Scheme, US Says

    The U.S. government urged a New York federal court not to trim its complaint against the former shareholders of a family holding company accused of participating in an $81 million tax scheme, saying the family illegally avoided paying capital gains on its sale of the company.

  • April 11, 2025

    NFT Owner Admits To Dodging Tax On Crypto Art Sales

    A Pennsylvania man pled guilty to filing false tax returns and underreporting his income by $13.1 million after selling 97 nonfungible token artworks, federal prosecutors said Friday.

  • April 11, 2025

    Trump Tariffs Will Hurt US Worse Than EU, Bloc Official Says

    The wide-ranging tariffs imposed by President Donald Trump's administration, including those that were recently paused for 90 days, will harm the U.S. worse than the European Union, the bloc's economic commissioner said Friday.

  • April 11, 2025

    Nursing Home Owner Gets 3 Years For $39M Tax Fraud

    A New Jersey federal judge sentenced a nursing home operator to three years in prison for a $39 million employment tax fraud scheme involving care centers he owned across the country, a term three times as long as what prosecutors had requested.

  • April 11, 2025

    Taxation With Representation: Norton Rose, Ropes & Gray

    In this week's Taxation With Representation, Capri Holdings sells Versace to Prada, Woodside Energy sells a liquefied natural gas terminal stake to Stonepeak, crypto infrastructure firm Ripple acquires prime brokerage platform Hidden Road, and Bain Capital takes a stake in Lincoln Financial.

  • April 11, 2025

    More Than A Dozen Firms Aided Largest Q1 Real Estate Deals

    Over a dozen law firms helped with the 10 largest real estate merger and acquisition deals in the first quarter, the majority of which were above the $1 billion mark.

  • April 11, 2025

    Weekly Internal Revenue Bulletin

    The Internal Revenue Service's weekly bulletin, issued Friday, included resident populations for determining the state housing credit ceiling for 2025.

  • April 10, 2025

    Immigration Groups Seek Unredacted Tax Data-Sharing Pact

    Immigration advocates trying to block the Internal Revenue Service from disclosing taxpayers' information to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and other agencies urged a D.C. federal court on Thursday to require the Justice Department to hand over an unredacted version of a government agreement to share the confidential data.

  • April 10, 2025

    Calif. Rep's Bill Would Shield Farmers From Retaliatory Tariffs

    A California congressman on Thursday introduced a bill in the U.S. House aiming to curb the authority of President Donald Trump to impose new or additional duties on agricultural products from countries that are major agricultural trade partners with the United States.

  • April 10, 2025

    Exec Facing Tax Evasion Charges To Remain In Custody

    An aerospace company founder facing tax evasion and other fraud charges will remain in pretrial detention because he's considered a major flight risk, a D.C. federal court ruled.

  • April 10, 2025

    Reps Intro Bill To Cap Conservation Easement Protections

    Two Republican congresswomen have introduced a bill that would put a 30-year cap on conservation easements entered into by the U.S. Department of the Interior, saying the agreements shouldn't be allowed to hamstring future generations of landowners.

  • April 10, 2025

    Tax Court OKs Nix Of Deduction For Funds Seized After Bribe

    An Ohio man can't claim a loss for the $856,000 seized from his corporation after he pled guilty to his role in a bribery scheme, the U.S. Tax Court said Thursday, affirming the Internal Revenue Service's disallowance because the loss was due to a criminal penalty.

  • April 10, 2025

    Senate Bill Would End Declared Emergency Behind Tariffs

    A bill introduced Thursday in the Senate would end the national emergency declared by President Donald Trump to underpin the global tariff regime he unveiled last week, with Sens. Rand Paul, R-Ky., Ron Wyden, D-Ore., and Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., among the sponsors.

Expert Analysis

  • Why Now Is The Time For Law Firms To Hire Lateral Partners

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    Partner and associate mobility data from the second quarter of this year suggest that there's never been a better time in recent years for law firms to hire lateral candidates, particularly experienced partners — though this necessitates an understanding of potential red flags, say Julie Henson and Greg Hamman at Decipher Investigative Intelligence.

  • Considering Possible PR Risks Of Certain Legal Tactics

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    Disney and American Airlines recently abandoned certain litigation tactics in two lawsuits after fierce public backlash, illustrating why corporate counsel should consider the reputational implications of any legal strategy and partner with their communications teams to preempt public relations concerns, says Chris Gidez at G7 Reputation Advisory.

  • It's No Longer Enough For Firms To Be Trusted Advisers

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    Amid fierce competition for business, the transactional “trusted adviser” paradigm from which most firms operate is no longer sufficient — they should instead aim to become trusted partners with their most valuable clients, says Stuart Maister at Strategic Narrative.

  • Avoid Getting Burned By Agencies' Solar Financing Spotlight

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    Recently coordinated reports and advisories from the U.S. Department of the Treasury, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and the Federal Trade Commission maximize the spotlight on the consumer solar financing market and highlight pitfalls for lenders to avoid in this burgeoning field, says Mercedes Tunstall at Cadwalader.

  • Tax Traps In Acquisitions Of Financially Distressed Targets

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    Parties to the acquisition of an insolvent or bankrupt company face myriad tax considerations, including limitations on using the distressed company's tax benefits, cancellation of indebtedness income, tax lien issues and potential tax reorganizations.

  • Navigating A Potpourri Of Possible Transparency Act Pitfalls

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    Despite the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network's continued release of guidance for complying with the Corporate Transparency Act, its interpretation remains in flux, making it important for companies to understand potentially problematic areas of ambiguity in the practical application of the law, say attorneys at Sidley.

  • How Methods Are Evolving In Textualist Interpretations

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    Textualists at the U.S. Supreme Court are increasingly considering new methods such as corpus linguistics and surveys to evaluate what a statute's text communicates to an ordinary reader, while lower courts even mull large language models like ChatGPT as supplements, says Kevin Tobia at Georgetown Law.

  • Why Attorneys Should Consider Community Leadership Roles

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    Volunteering and nonprofit board service are complementary to, but distinct from, traditional pro bono work, and taking on these community leadership roles can produce dividends for lawyers, their firms and the nonprofit causes they support, says Katie Beacham at Kilpatrick.

  • Firms Must Offer A Trifecta Of Services In Post-Chevron World

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    After the U.S. Supreme Court’s Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo decision overturning Chevron deference, law firms will need to integrate litigation, lobbying and communications functions to keep up with the ramifications of the ruling and provide adequate counsel quickly, says Neil Hare at Dentons.

  • 5 Tips To Succeed In A Master Of Laws Program And Beyond

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    As lawyers and recent law school graduates begin their Master of Laws coursework across the country, they should keep a few pointers in mind to get the most out of their programs and kick-start successful careers in their practice areas, says Kelley Miller at Reed Smith.

  • Pros, Cons Of Disclosing Improper Employee Retention Credit

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    Employers considering the Internal Revenue Service’s second voluntary disclosure program, which allows companies to avoid penalties for erroneously claiming employee retention credits for the 2021 tax year by repaying the credits and naming the tax advisers who encouraged these abusive practices, should carefully weigh the program’s benefits against its potential drawbacks, say attorneys at Winston & Strawn.

  • How Law Firms Can Avoid 'Collaboration Drag'

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    Law firm decision making can be stifled by “collaboration drag” — characterized by too many pointless meetings, too much peer feedback and too little dissent — but a few strategies can help stakeholders improve decision-making processes and build consensus, says Steve Groom at Miles Mediation.

  • Litigation Funding Disclosure Key To Open, Impartial Process

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    Blanket investor and funding agreement disclosures should be required in all civil cases where the investor has a financial interest in the outcome in order to address issues ranging from potential conflicts of interest to national security concerns, says Bob Goodlatte, former U.S. House Representative for Virginia.

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