Federal
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October 08, 2025
3rd Time's The Charm? The Tax Court's Odyssey In Medtronic
A U.S. Tax Court judge has been sent back to the drawing board once again in the long-running transfer pricing litigation brought by Medtronic, raising questions about how much weight the court must give to IRS transfer pricing regulations and how much authority it has to go its own way.
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October 08, 2025
Senate Tax Panel Advances IRS Chief Counsel Nomination
The Senate Finance Committee approved President Donald Trump's nomination of a Sullivan & Cromwell attorney to be general counsel of the Internal Revenue Service, the nearly party-line vote Wednesday setting up the nomination for a vote by the full Senate.
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October 08, 2025
Tax Court Upholds Lien Notice Against Health Co.
The IRS didn't abuse its discretion when it sustained a federal tax lien notice against a health company for unpaid income and employment taxes, the U.S. Tax Court ruled Wednesday, saying the company didn't file documents, including tax returns, needed to challenge the notice.
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October 08, 2025
IRS Issued Tax Notices On Time, Tax Court Says
The Internal Revenue Service issued notices of tax deficiency related to a man's partnership on time, the U.S. Tax Court ruled Wednesday, saying the agency made the notifications within a year of the conclusion of litigation over the affected items.
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October 08, 2025
Gov't Resists Prison Delay For Lobbyist Who Evaded Tax
A Miami lobbyist who was sentenced to prison for evading more than $1 million in taxes should not be allowed to delay the start of his term, the U.S. told a Florida federal court, saying the medical injection he argues he should take at home is available in prison.
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October 08, 2025
Denver Attorney Returns To Reed Smith State Tax Team
Reed Smith is expanding its tax practice with the return of an experienced attorney, now based in Denver, with multistate experience in the full spectrum of tax issues.
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October 07, 2025
11th Circ. Wary Of IRS Procedure In FBAR Penalty Appeal
An Eleventh Circuit panel Tuesday appeared concerned about IRS procedures that could keep a man from recouping $419,000 he paid to resolve his failure to disclose funds held in foreign bank accounts as he appeals a district court determination that he actually owes $2.2 million.
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October 07, 2025
Goldstein's $968K Border Cash Claim To Be Admitted At Trial
A Maryland federal jury will hear claims from prosecutors that SCOTUSblog publisher Tom Goldstein told Dulles International Airport border guards that the $968,000 in cash he brought into the country in 2018 had been gambling winnings, after a judge shot down his efforts to suppress his alleged statements Tuesday.
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October 07, 2025
Simpson Thacher Atty On Making New REIT Blueprints
The real estate investment landscape has changed dramatically in recent years, as alternative asset managers — and their counsel — have pioneered ways to tap into new sources of capital. Simpson Thacher partner Benjamin Wells spoke to Law360 about the changes he's seen, how to navigate regulatory shifts, and how real estate investment trusts may continue to reinvent themselves.
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October 07, 2025
Ex-Executives' Payroll Tax Convictions Biased, 4th Circ. Told
Two former software executives asked the Fourth Circuit to reverse their criminal convictions stemming from their failure to pay employment taxes, claiming the jury's instructions were biased.
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October 07, 2025
Senate OKs Top Treasury Atty Pick In Slate Of Confirmations
The Senate approved President Donald Trump's choice of a Sidley Austin LLP partner to be general counsel of the U.S. Department of the Treasury on Tuesday as part of a combined confirmation of 108 nominees to various roles.
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October 07, 2025
Approach The Bench: Judge Kaplan On Suit Against The Gov't
U.S. Court of Federal Claims Judge Elaine Kaplan's docket doesn't always garner attention in the same way trial court cases do, but that may change as the executive branch makes sweeping budget and policy changes that could lend more political significance to monetary claims against the government.
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October 07, 2025
Estate's $17M Transfer Not Tax-Related, 5th Circ. Told
The estate of a woman who inherited her husband's oil business and was the victim of elder abuse told the Fifth Circuit that it had multiple reasons unrelated to avoiding estate tax for setting up a partnership and transferring $17 million into it just before she died.
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October 07, 2025
TCJA Designer Tapped For Deputy Treasury Role
An architect of the 2017 federal tax overhaul has been appointed to serve as second-in-command at the U.S. Department of the Treasury, Secretary Scott Bessent announced Tuesday.
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October 06, 2025
Homeowners Group Denied Social Welfare Tax Break
A Texas homeowners association doesn't qualify for an exemption from federal income tax available to social welfare nonprofit organizations, the U.S. Tax Court said Monday.
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October 06, 2025
Fed. Circ. Partially Revives German Steel Co.'s Dumping Suit
The U.S. Commerce Department cannot use a German steelmaker's likely sales prices as a proxy for the cost of producing nonprime steel plates, but the company acted too late to argue for categorizing some plates separately as it challenges Commerce's antidumping investigation, the Federal Circuit said Monday.
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October 06, 2025
IRS Cyber Crime Executive Named Interim Compliance Chief
An Internal Revenue Service criminal investigations executive who founded the division's cyber crimes sections will temporarily take on an elevated role overseeing all agency enforcement operations, the IRS announced Monday.
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October 06, 2025
Tax Court Denies IT Co.'s $45M Capital Loss Penalty Challenge
The U.S. Tax Court rejected on Monday an information technology company's bid to skirt a $45 million penalty related to the IRS' denial of its $651 million capital loss deduction, saying the agency did not violate the Administrative Procedure Act in asserting the fine.
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October 06, 2025
High Court Won't Review CPA's 'Unbecoming' Tax Challenge
The U.S. Supreme Court declined to take up a case Monday in which a U.S. Tax Court judge found that a certified public accountant's claims that his wages weren't taxable were meritless and "unbecoming" of a professional accountant.
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October 03, 2025
Some Longtime Legal Blogs Go Quiet As Platform Shuts Down
When the online publishing platform Typepad launched more than two decades ago, it became a hub for a then-growing community of law professors and legal bloggers. Its closure this week marked the end of an era that has found some bloggers looking for new homes or opting to call it quits.
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October 03, 2025
Justices To Weigh Compensation In Tax-Foreclosure Sale
The U.S. Supreme Court agreed Friday to take up a case contending that a deceased homeowner's estate was denied its constitutionally owed compensation when a Michigan county sold a tax-foreclosed property at a fraction of its fair market value.
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October 03, 2025
DC Circ. Split On Challenge To IRS-ICE Info-Sharing Deal
D.C. Circuit judges seemed split Friday over whether an information-sharing agreement between immigration authorities and the IRS complies with taxpayer privacy protections, with one judge noting during oral arguments that the government immigration arm requesting the tax information appears unauthorized to make the requests.
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October 03, 2025
Hobby Lobby's $85M Charity Case Needs Trial, Tax Court Says
A trial is needed to determine whether Hobby Lobby's owners themselves were responsible for missing important information that led the IRS to reject their nearly $85 million charitable deduction tied to artifact donations, the U.S. Tax Court ruled.
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October 03, 2025
Getting It Right: An Economist On Transfer Pricing
Michael McDonald, who retired from EY last month, spent most of his career at the U.S. Treasury Department, working on rules governing how related companies should calculate the value of intangible assets transferred between them, then later contributed to the massive rewrite of international tax rules by the OECD in 2015. McDonald reflected on both projects in an interview with Law360.
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October 03, 2025
Taxation With Representation: Kirkland, Paul Weiss, Cravath
In this week's Taxation With Representation, video game maker Electronic Arts agrees to be acquired by the Saudi Arabia Public Investment Fund, Silver Lake and Affinity Partners; online mortgage giant Rocket closes its acquisition of rival Mr. Cooper Group; and Berkshire Hathaway acquires international energy company Occidental's chemical business.
IRS Stops Most Operations Due To Federal Budget Impasse
The Internal Revenue Service has temporarily halted most of its operations, furloughed workers and ended paid leave for the affected employees as Congress remains deadlocked over federal appropriations legislation to fund the government, the agency's acting human resources officer said Wednesday.
IRS Provides Grace Period For Int'l Money Transfer Tax Errors
U.S. financial institutions that handle overseas money transfers won't immediately face penalties if they fail to accurately deposit new excise taxes that are required under the budget reconciliation bill enacted in July, the Internal Revenue Service announced Tuesday.
Social Security Chief Adds Duties As Inaugural CEO Of IRS
The current administrator of the Social Security Administration is adding a new role as the Internal Revenue Service's first chief executive officer, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent announced Monday.
IRS Stops Most Operations Due To Federal Budget Impasse
The Internal Revenue Service has temporarily halted most of its operations, furloughed workers and ended paid leave for the affected employees as Congress remains deadlocked over federal appropriations legislation to fund the government, the agency's acting human resources officer said Wednesday.
IRS Provides Grace Period For Int'l Money Transfer Tax Errors
U.S. financial institutions that handle overseas money transfers won't immediately face penalties if they fail to accurately deposit new excise taxes that are required under the budget reconciliation bill enacted in July, the Internal Revenue Service announced Tuesday.
Social Security Chief Adds Duties As Inaugural CEO Of IRS
The current administrator of the Social Security Administration is adding a new role as the Internal Revenue Service's first chief executive officer, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent announced Monday.
Featured Stories
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3rd Time's The Charm? The Tax Court's Odyssey In Medtronic
A U.S. Tax Court judge has been sent back to the drawing board once again in the long-running transfer pricing litigation brought by Medtronic, raising questions about how much weight the court must give to IRS transfer pricing regulations and how much authority it has to go its own way.
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Simpson Thacher Atty On Making New REIT Blueprints
The real estate investment landscape has changed dramatically in recent years, as alternative asset managers — and their counsel — have pioneered ways to tap into new sources of capital. Simpson Thacher partner Benjamin Wells spoke to Law360 about the changes he's seen, how to navigate regulatory shifts, and how real estate investment trusts may continue to reinvent themselves.
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Some Longtime Legal Blogs Go Quiet As Platform Shuts Down
When the online publishing platform Typepad launched more than two decades ago, it became a hub for a then-growing community of law professors and legal bloggers. Its closure this week marked the end of an era that has found some bloggers looking for new homes or opting to call it quits.
Expert Analysis
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Compliance Pointers Amid Domestic Terrorism Clampdown
A recent presidential memorandum marks a shift in federal domestic-terrorism enforcement that should prompt nonprofits to enhance diligence related to grantees, vendors and events, and financial institutions to shore up their internal resources for increased suspicious-activity monitoring and reporting obligations, say attorneys at Morgan Lewis.
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Trump Tax Law Has Mixed Impacts On Commercial Real Estate
The One Big Beautiful Bill Act brings sweeping changes to the real estate industry — and while the permanency of opportunity zones and bonus depreciation creates predictability for some taxpayers, sunsetting incentives for renewable energy projects will leave others with hard choices, says Jordan Metzger at Cole Schotz.
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Protecting Sensitive Court Filings After Recent Cyber Breach
In the wake of a recent cyberattack on federal courts' Case Management/Electronic Case Files system, civil litigants should consider seeking enhanced protections for sensitive materials filed under seal to mitigate the risk of unauthorized exposure, say attorneys at Redgrave.
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What Ethics Rules Say On Atty Discipline For Online Speech
Though law firms are free to discipline employees for their online commentary about Charlie Kirk or other social media activity, saying crude or insensitive things on the internet generally doesn’t subject attorneys to professional discipline under the Model Rules of Professional Conduct, says Stacie H. Rosenzweig at Halling & Cayo.
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2 Rulings Highlight IRS' Uncertain Civil Fraud Penalty Powers
Conflicting decisions from the U.S. Tax Court and the Northern District of Texas that hinge on whether the IRS can administratively assert civil fraud penalties since the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2024 decision in SEC v. Jarkesy provide both opportunities and potential pitfalls for taxpayers, says Michael Landman at Bird Marella.
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Junior Attys Must Beware Of 5 Common Legal Brief Mistakes
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Junior law firm associates must be careful to avoid five common pitfalls when drafting legal briefs — from including every possible argument to not developing a theme — to build the reputation of a sought-after litigator, says James Argionis at Cozen O'Connor.
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Digital Asset Report Opens Doors For Banks, But Risks Linger
A recent report from a White House working group discussing digital asset market structure signals how banks may elect to expand into digital asset custody, trading and related services in the years ahead, but the road remains layered with challenges, say attorneys at Foley & Lardner.
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Power To The Paralegals: How And Why Training Must Evolve
Empowering paralegals through new models of education that emphasize digital fluency, interdisciplinary collaboration and human-centered lawyering could help solve workforce challenges and the justice gap — if firms, educators and policymakers get on board, say Kristine Custodio Suero and Kelli Radnothy.
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5 Real Estate Takeaways From Trump's Sweeping Tax Law
Changes to the Internal Revenue Code included in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act will have a range of effects on real estate sponsors, investors and real estate investment trusts — from more compliance flexibility around taxable REIT subsidiary limits to new considerations raised by a key retaliatory tax provision that was left out, say attorneys at DLA Piper.
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Evaluating The Current State Of Trump's Tariff Deals
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As the Trump administration's ambitious tariff effort rolls into its ninth month, and many deals lack the details necessary to provide trade market certainty, attorneys at Adams & Reese examine where things stand.
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How Hyperlinks Are Changing E-Discovery Responsibilities
A recent e-discovery dispute over hyperlinked data in Hubbard v. Crow shows how courts have increasingly broadened the definition of control to account for cloud-based evidence, and why organizations must rethink preservation practices to avoid spoliation risks, says Bree Murphy at Exterro.
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Preserving Refunds As Tariffs Await Supreme Court Weigh-In
In the event that the U.S. Supreme Court decides in V.O.S. Selections v. Trump that the president doesn't have authority to levy tariffs under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, importers should keep records of imports on which they have paid such tariffs and carefully monitor the liquidation dates, say attorneys at Butzel.
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Revamped Opportunity Zones Can Aid Clean Energy Projects
The Qualified Opportunity Zone program, introduced in 2017 and reshaped in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, offers investors federal tax incentives for development in low-income communities — incentives that are especially meaningful for clean energy projects, where capital-intensive infrastructure and long-term planning are essential, say attorneys at Dentons.