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May 28, 2026
A former federal prosecutor who worked on Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection cases was among a handful of individuals and groups Thursday who pressed federal courts to issue temporary restraining orders blocking payouts from President Donald Trump's $1.8 billion "slush fund," according to motions filed in Virginia and Washington, D.C.
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May 28, 2026
A Washington federal judge refused to throw out a hospital's lawsuit seeking $11.5 million from the federal government under a COVID-19 relief program, ruling on Thursday that Tri-State Memorial Hospital has plausibly alleged that it partially suspended its operations because of a government order.
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May 28, 2026
The Osage Nation is appealing to the Tenth Circuit an Oklahoma federal judge's decision that declined to vacate a 16-year-old circuit decision saying the tribe's reservation boundaries had been disestablished, arguing that no congressional language explicitly changed those boundaries.
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May 28, 2026
The Federal Circuit shouldn't stay an injunction blocking the collection of Section 122 tariffs from two businesses and Washington state while the federal government appeals the trade court ruling because the appeal is likely to fail, the businesses and 24 states said Thursday.
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May 28, 2026
Former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick will have 100% of the funds in a bank account tied to him garnished by the U.S. government for distribution in accordance with his criminal judgment, a Michigan federal judge ordered Thursday.
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May 28, 2026
Ohio became the most recent state to signal the growing unease in giving tax breaks to data centers as Gov. Mike DeWine said he directed the state tax credit authority to pause consideration of any new exemption requests.
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May 28, 2026
A Maryland federal court ordered the U.S. government to pay back over $1.5 million to a Baltimore law firm, finding the government failed to prove the firm is an alter ego of one of its clients that failed to pay its corporate taxes.
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May 28, 2026
Two Democratic Senate leaders asked the U.S. Department of Justice to preserve any records related to the settlement of President Donald Trump's suit against the IRS in a letter published Thursday, signaling that further investigations may be coming.
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May 28, 2026
SCOTUSblog founder Tom Goldstein said that the prosecutors who convicted him on 12 tax and mortgage fraud charges in February are now contradicting arguments they made at the end of his trial in their attempt to deny him a bench acquittal or new trial.
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May 28, 2026
Minnesota will conform with recent federal corporate tax changes, extend its workaround of the cap on deductions for state and local tax payments and provide property and vehicle tax breaks under an omnibus bill signed by Gov. Tim Walz.
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May 28, 2026
Tennessee authorized counties and municipalities to pay property tax refunds via installments applied as future credits if taxpayers agree to such arrangements under a bill signed by the governor.
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May 28, 2026
The Fourth Circuit on Thursday affirmed the convictions of two software executives found guilty at trial of failing to pay employment taxes to the Internal Revenue Service, rejecting the notion that their alleged cooperation with the IRS somehow undermined the charges.
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May 28, 2026
A fractional jet company is not liable for a $39 million air transportation excise tax because the levy applies only to its usage charges for each flight, not the fixed costs for management and operations, the Sixth Circuit ruled.
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May 28, 2026
The European Union said Thursday that it had opened a probe into Chinese e-commerce firm JD.com's €2.2 billion ($2.6 billion) takeover bid for German electronics retailer Ceconomy, linked to concerns the Chinese firm had been granted distortive foreign subsidies.
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May 27, 2026
A group of Boulder residents told a Colorado Court of Appeals panel Wednesday at oral arguments that the city's stormwater and flood management fees, which will be used in part to repay $66 million in bonds, are actually a tax under Colorado's Taxpayer's Bill of Rights, or TABOR.
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May 27, 2026
A group of 35 former federal judges pushed for a Florida federal court to reopen President Donald Trump's now-settled $10 billion tax leak case against his own Internal Revenue Service, alleging that Trump and the DOJ deceived the court.
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May 27, 2026
Energy companies and farm representatives urged the IRS on Wednesday to expedite the release of an updated greenhouse gas emissions model reflecting the 2025 budget law's changes, saying the guidance is needed to determine eligibility for and calculate the clean fuel production tax credit.
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May 27, 2026
A dentist's sentence of almost 3½ years for evading over $1.6 million in personal taxes through an abusive-trust tax scheme was affirmed by the Tenth Circuit on Wednesday, as the appellate court rejected his argument that his sentence is both procedurally and substantively unreasonable.
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May 27, 2026
A tax lawyer cannot use the Fifth Amendment to shield his U.S. financial records from liquidators appointed by an Australian court that hit his family's companies with a civil assessment of AU$100 million ($71.4 million) for a decades-long tax fraud, a New York bankruptcy court said.
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May 27, 2026
The U.S. Court of International Trade requested that U.S. Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Rodney S. Scott appear during a hearing scheduled for early next month to discuss the agency's plans for refunds of tariffs struck down by the U.S. Supreme Court, according to orders issued Wednesday.
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May 27, 2026
The U.S. is capping tariffs on certain Taiwanese products while eliminating some derivative tariffs on aircraft components as part of the implementation of a deal aimed at bringing semiconductor production to the U.S., the U.S. Department of Commerce said Wednesday.
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May 27, 2026
Italian authorities arrested the suspected leaders of a criminal organization that defrauded European Union governments of more than €78 million ($90.7 million) in value-added taxes on hygiene and household products, the European Public Prosecutor's Office said Wednesday.
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May 26, 2026
The owner of a Pennsylvania mushroom farm will get a new sentence for failing to forward her workers' tax withholdings, after the Third Circuit ruled Tuesday that her sentencing guidelines should not have included an additional $1.8 million in taxes that her company failed to pay.
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May 26, 2026
A Minnesota couple with a seasonal resort and year-round home is entitled to full homestead credits for both, the state tax court said, calling the statutory distance limitation on application of that benefit ambiguous.
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May 26, 2026
The U.S. government asked the Fifth Circuit to revisit its April opinion finding the tax code's ban on distilling whiskey at home unconstitutional after another appellate court's opposite conclusion affirmed the ban.