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October 23, 2026
The Fifth Circuit should restore a vacated regulation that required disclosure of certain microcaptive transactions due to the risk of tax avoidance and uphold another related rule that carried a lower penalty for reporting failures, the government said Friday, arguing against a plastics manufacturer fighting to eliminate both.
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October 23, 2026
The U.S. Tax Court imposed conservation easement donation requirements beyond what the law allows in evaluating a property's condition and potential mining value, a partnership told the Fourth Circuit, seeking to overturn the 2025 denial of its charitable deduction.
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October 23, 2026
Citizens across the country will be tasked with deciding significant tax-related measures when they head to the polls in November, including proposals to impose a one-time 5% wealth tax on billionaires, ban state-level property tax in Tennessee and make income tax changes in numerous states.
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October 23, 2026
In this week's Taxation With Representation, EQT Private Equity announces a takeover offer for life sciences testing company Qiagen NV, Salesforce acquires customer engagement platform Braze and London Stock Exchange Group buys U.S. credit intelligence provider Octus.
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October 23, 2026
A Minnesota taxpayer can move forward with her petition for a property tax exemption for seven parcels of land without paying back taxes, a judge for the state Tax Court ruled.
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October 23, 2026
Two individuals have been convicted in Germany for acting as members of a criminal organization to carry out a €200 million ($224 million) value-added tax fraud involving electronics, the European Public Prosecutor's Office said Friday.
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October 22, 2026
A Las Vegas man was sentenced to more than three years in prison for his role in what the government described as a $5 million tax refund fraud scheme that also involved his mother, who owned a tax preparation business, federal prosecutors said.
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October 22, 2026
The U.S. Tax Court erred by finding it has jurisdiction in a partnership case that missed the 90-day window for filing its petition, the IRS said, arguing that relevant language in 2015 legislation is identical to that in prior legislation that mandated dismissing a similar case.
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October 22, 2026
Top Republicans on the House Judiciary Committee asked the Judicial Conference Thursday to investigate a Florida federal judge for potential misconduct with an order she issued in the case involving the leak of President Donald Trump's tax returns.
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October 22, 2026
A Texas federal court must revisit its 2025 ruling that the IRS violated a woman's jury-trial rights by imposing a $1 million civil penalty for failing to report foreign bank accounts, the Fifth Circuit said, ordering another review in light of a U.S. Supreme Court decision.
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October 22, 2026
An Atlanta federal court should, at minimum, pause a proposed class action looking to force UPS to reimburse customers for costs they incurred as the result of struck-down reciprocal tariffs, the shipping giant said, as the company itself is still waiting on refunds.
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October 21, 2026
A Colorado ballot initiative to raise taxes on the state's wealthiest residents will be on the ballot this November after a state court judge Wednesday tossed a lawsuit seeking to invalidate signatures gathered by improperly registered circulators of the initiative.
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October 21, 2026
The mayor of Chicago released a $17.6 billion budget plan Wednesday that includes the return of a tax on corporations for every employee at large firms, as well as increasing tax rates on sports betting and leased property.
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October 21, 2026
An Illinois federal judge dismissed a skin care corporate group's $8.3 million tax refund suit, finding she lacked jurisdiction to review its amended returns claiming business deductions because those filings did not use the company's new name after a 2018 merger.
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October 21, 2026
Squire Patton Boggs LLP announced Wednesday that it has added the co-chair of Akerman LLP's public finance group to bolster its capacity to handle public finance, healthcare finance and other matters.
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October 21, 2026
A Michigan woman who owned a series of staffing companies pled guilty to conspiring to defraud the U.S. for more than a decade via an employment tax scheme, causing a tax loss to the IRS of roughly $1.7 million, federal prosecutors said.
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October 20, 2026
Polymarket has sued Ohio officials in federal court to stave off an enforcement action under the state's gambling laws, arguing its sports event contracts are under the exclusive jurisdiction of the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission and that the state's gaming regulations unlawfully discriminate against interstate commerce.
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October 20, 2026
The founder of a plastic manufacturing company asked the Fifth Circuit not to dismiss his bid to restore a tax deduction the IRS denied on premiums the company paid for its captive insurance arrangement, saying the court has jurisdiction over the case despite the government's claim to the contrary.
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October 20, 2026
The European Parliament wants the European Union to step up coordination against value-added tax carousel fraud, including with binding information-sharing protocols, automatic interagency referrals and making more fraud cases count as EU criminal matters, according to a nonbinding resolution adopted Tuesday.
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October 20, 2026
The Oregon Department of Revenue has not adequately explained the relevance of its discovery request for a couple's financial records in a dispute over expenses reported on their income tax return, the state tax court said.
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October 20, 2026
Sullivan & Cromwell LLP has added a tax attorney previously with Kirkland & Ellis LLP as a partner in its New York office, the firm announced Tuesday.
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October 20, 2026
An Oregon property owner failed to challenge an assessment at a local board before seeking judicial relief, the state tax court said, rejecting his arguments that he was busy with the property's rehabilitation and working with the local assessor for a resolution.
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October 19, 2026
A battle over a Colorado ballot initiative to raise taxes on the state's wealthiest residents underwent a 10-hour evidentiary hearing Monday, featuring testimony from a state official who told the court that rules around ballot initiatives don't allow for signatures to be invalidated.
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October 19, 2026
The Colorado Supreme Court agreed on Monday to hear, as a matter of first impression, a rental owner's challenge to the town of Breckenridge's imposition of a regulatory fee on obtaining or renewing licenses for short-term rentals.
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October 19, 2026
A Massachusetts federal judge on Monday dismissed a proposed class action against BDO USA alleging the accounting and tax advisory firm's $1.3 billion deal to create an employee stock ownership plan violated federal benefits law, holding the worker who sued couldn't show that the transaction injured him.