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May 13, 2026
A bipartisan group of federal lawmakers on Wednesday introduced a bill that would allow workers to make tax-free charitable donations directly from their employer-sponsored retirement plans, building on a section of the retirement policy overhaul known as Secure 2.0.
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May 13, 2026
The Ninth Circuit's 2019 ruling against Altera Corp., which upheld rules requiring companies to share the cost of employee stock options with foreign affiliates, means that Meta's income for 2017-18 should be increased by roughly $3 billion, the IRS told the U.S. Tax Court.
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May 13, 2026
Massachusetts' auditor said Wednesday that she may file more litigation over her ongoing bid to audit the state legislature, sharply pushing back on statements by the state attorney general that suggested any review would be cabined.
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May 13, 2026
President Donald Trump's administration created the U.S. Department of Justice's National Fraud Enforcement Division with a narrow focus on combating government program fraud, but a move to retain federal prosecutors focused on other types of fraud could signal a wider scope with potential ripple effects across white-collar enforcement.
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May 13, 2026
President Donald Trump's first administration was well within its legal authority to increase tariffs on Chinese goods under a law utilized to address unfair trading practices, and the U.S. Supreme Court doesn't need to consider a challenge to those measures, the government told the justices.
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May 13, 2026
Eligible partnerships disputing conservation or historic preservation easement charitable deductions cannot negotiate their tax benefit amounts under the Internal Revenue Service's latest settlement offer, which carries a 10% penalty, the agency announced Wednesday.
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May 13, 2026
European prosecutors said Wednesday that German authorities arrested one suspect and carried out a series of raids in an investigation into an alleged €18 million ($21 million) value-added tax carousel fraud involving the cross-border sale of small electronics.
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May 13, 2026
Hungary issued guidance Wednesday for companies, covering how to file information returns for the 15% global minimum tax.
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May 12, 2026
A Maryland federal judge has rejected SCOTUSblog founder Thomas Goldstein's request to push back sentencing for his tax evasion conviction, finding that Goldstein "has not shown good cause to continue sentencing."
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May 12, 2026
Boston must face a proposed class action accusing the city of inflating the valuations of some properties after owners appealed their tax bills, a state court judge has ruled.
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May 12, 2026
The Massachusetts attorney general said on Tuesday she will allow litigation to proceed over whether the state legislature can be audited and will appoint special counsel to represent the state auditor, ending a high-profile showdown between two high-ranking elected officials.
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May 12, 2026
An Idaho federal court wrongly denied a man of Mexican descent a new trial after discovering a juror had made racially biased comments about people of Mexican ethnicity during deliberations on whether to convict him of preparing false tax returns, a split Ninth Circuit panel said Tuesday.
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May 12, 2026
An insurance broker asked a Pennsylvania federal court to consider new constitutionality arguments against the IRS penalty prepayment requirement to revive its challenge to $6.6 million in captive insurance tax penalties, arguing those claims rely on new legal precedent.
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May 12, 2026
Over 8.3 million imports are pending tariff refunds after clearing the final system processes developed by Customs and Border Protection, accounting for almost $35.5 billion in duty refunds with interest, according to the latest declaration filed Tuesday by an agency official in the U.S. Court of International Trade.
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May 12, 2026
The Australian Taxation Office wrongly assessed AU$98.9 million ($71.6 million) in additional taxes to a Shell plc subsidiary by denying its entitlement to add a premium to its cost basis for a deemed acquisition of shares, the Federal Court of Australia said.
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May 12, 2026
The Australian government plans to implement measures aimed at limiting tax deductions in situations where interest expenses tied to rental properties exceed related income, which will raise 3.6 billion Australian dollars ($2.6 billion) over five years, according to a budget released Tuesday.
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May 12, 2026
Two Cambridgeshire farmers and a campaign group can't challenge the U.K. government's plans to slash inheritance tax relief for farms on the grounds that there should have been a public consultation before the proposals were announced, a London court ruled Tuesday.
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May 11, 2026
The ex-husband of a woman seeking a $2.9 million tax refund for carryback losses she shared with him is facing a possible arrest warrant and other penalties for repeatedly failing to comply with federal district court orders, a Texas judge said Monday.
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May 11, 2026
Minnesota's justices quizzed counsel for Hennepin County on Monday on whether its arguments for its preferred method for valuing a Hilton-branded Minneapolis hotel and convention center could be enough to overturn a state tax court decision that adopted the owner's approach.
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May 11, 2026
Georgia will lower its income tax rate, increase standard deductions and provide temporary exclusions for tax on some overtime pay and cash tips under legislation signed Monday by Republican Gov. Brian Kemp.
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May 11, 2026
Biotechnology giant Amgen is making a "futile" attempt to raise a purported double-taxation issue for tax years 2016 through 2018 in a pair of transfer pricing cases before the U.S. Tax Court, the federal government said, arguing the disputed years fall outside the court's jurisdiction.
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May 11, 2026
The school boards of several low-wealth North Carolina counties are asking the state Supreme Court to elucidate a recent ruling that invalidated nine years of developments in the public school funding case known as Leandro, contending the opinion suggests the court usurped power in its jurisdictional conclusions.
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May 11, 2026
Australia is preparing determinations and guidance on five issues related to capital gains taxation, including when anti-avoidance laws may be applied to multiple deferrals of liabilities and how the tax applies when a cryptocurrency is pegged to another cryptocurrency, the Australian Taxation Office said Monday.
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May 11, 2026
The Delaware Chancery Court this past week handled a varied mix of settlement approvals, political office disputes, transaction fights, emergency injunction bids and questions over how far the court can go to preserve records for litigation outside Delaware.
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May 08, 2026
The Connecticut Supreme Court's final term of 2025-2026 is only one week long, but the justices will decide whether one of their own 2022 opinions silently overruled an earlier opinion relied upon by a trial judge to order the foreclosure of a $35 million high-rise Hartford apartment complex.