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August 25, 2026
The U.S. Department of Justice said Tuesday that Deloitte will pay $21.5 million to resolve allegations that its diversity, equity and inclusion policies discriminated against workers because of their race and sex and violated the False Claims Act.
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August 25, 2026
Albania's state-owned oil company is urging a D.C. federal court to dismiss a default judgment enforcing a roughly $13 million arbitral award now owed to litigation funder Omni Bridgeway, saying the judgment was obtained after the litigation funder "erroneously" stated that service had been completed.
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August 25, 2026
Two workers aren't entitled to injunctive relief from IRS regulations that directed employers to overdeduct taxes from their employees' paychecks, a Texas federal court ruled, saying the pair's injury doesn't outweigh the harm that would result from enjoining the agency from enforcing wage withholding.
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August 25, 2026
The U.K. can levy £5.4 million ($7.4 million) in taxes on an Isle of Man developer's profits from selling land in Kent, the Upper Tribunal said Tuesday in a case that could allow HM Revenue & Customs to avoid issuing more than £1 billion in refunds.
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August 25, 2026
HM Revenue & Customs can pause a case challenging its accusations that the former director of several construction companies owes almost £1.7 million ($2.3 million) in taxes while an appellate court decides underlying issues, the First-tier Tribunal said in a decision.
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August 25, 2026
The Canadian government struck back on Tuesday at the latest round of U.S. tariffs, announcing tariffs of its own of up to 50% on more than 800 categories of products worth CA$27.6 billion ($20 billion) that will come into force on Sept. 8.
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August 25, 2026
Vedder has added a seasoned employee benefits and executive compensation partner from Winston Taylor LLP to join its practice as a new shareholder in Chicago, where she will advise clients on a wide range of retirement, health and welfare benefits issues, the firm announced Tuesday.
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August 24, 2026
Microsoft urged a Washington federal judge Friday to force arbitration of an Xbox buyer's proposed class action alleging the company seeks to pocket tariff refunds meant for customers — or toss the case entirely — contending console prices change over time "for a variety of reasons having nothing to do with tariffs."
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August 24, 2026
The Internal Revenue Service's penalty imposed on a partnership for inaccurately reporting a Louisiana conservation easement transaction is considered a tax collection matter outside federal courts' jurisdiction, the Fifth Circuit ruled, declining to review a constitutional challenge against the penalty.
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August 24, 2026
A dispute over the taxability of $300 million in funds from Hyatt Hotels' loyalty rewards program will head back to the U.S. Tax Court, with the Seventh Circuit rejecting the Internal Revenue Service's request to rethink its decision remanding the case.
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August 24, 2026
A Minnesota childcare center failed to meet the statutory deadline for seeking a property tax exemption and was not entitled to judicial review of the tax break's denial, a county told the state Supreme Court, urging it to reverse a state tax court decision.
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August 24, 2026
President Donald Trump on Monday escalated his trade war against Canada, saying he would implement 50% tariffs on vehicles and steel from the country in January, after a 50% levy took effect over the weekend on other goods imported from Canada.
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August 24, 2026
Slovakian Prime Minister Robert Fico has asked his cabinet to prepare legislation to repeal the country's atypical financial transaction tax, which has faced "massive criticism" since its introduction, he said Monday on social media.
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August 24, 2026
The OECD's model rules for platforms to report information to tax authorities shouldn't have a transaction-based threshold that excludes some sellers from platforms' reporting requirements, the official lobby for businesses at the organization said in response to a consultation.
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August 24, 2026
A pair of law firms have agreed to drop suits they recently lodged in Georgia federal court claiming the Internal Revenue Service wrongly denied their claims to COVID-19-related employee retention credits.
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August 21, 2026
The D.C. Circuit on Friday vacated a district judge's block on the Trump administration's pause on a wide array of federal grants, loans and financial assistance, ruling that the Office of Management and Budget's rescission of the memorandum rendered the lawsuit moot.
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August 21, 2026
The Federal Circuit affirmed the termination of an IRS employee whose goddaughter reported her to the agency for accepting compensation or gifts in exchange for preparing tax returns for others, upholding a decision by the U.S. Merit Systems Protection Board.
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August 21, 2026
A coalition of restaurant, retail and hotel industry groups has urged a New Jersey federal court to strike down a state law requiring businesses to pay a fine when their employees are enrolled in the state Medicaid program, arguing the statute conflicts with federal benefits law.
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August 21, 2026
A U.K. appeals court backed HM Revenue & Customs' denial of an information technology company's nearly £1.7 million ($2.3 million) value-added tax deduction, holding Friday that the company's consultant should have recognized fraudulent VAT evasion elsewhere in related supply chains.
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August 21, 2026
Apple Inc. paid more than $17 billion in taxes to Ireland last year largely because of a European Court of Justice ruling ordering it to pay back taxes, the company said Friday in its first public country-by-country report.
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August 21, 2026
The Eleventh Circuit sustained the IRS' valuation penalty against a partnership donor claiming a nearly $9 million charitable deduction on a Georgia conservation easement contribution, upholding a 2023 U.S. Tax Court decision that ruled the donor had grossly misvalued the donated property.
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August 21, 2026
President Donald Trump said Friday he has cut a deal to allow up to 300,000 metric tons of ground beef to be imported into the U.S. without an added tariff in exchange for lower prices for consumers.
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August 21, 2026
In this week's Taxation With Representation, Santander SA completes its acquisition of U.S. regional lender Webster Financial Corp., financial services company Stripe buys artificial intelligence routing platform OpenRouter and Madison Air Solutions Corp. acquires German airflow technology maker ebm-papst.
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August 21, 2026
The past week in London has seen former Liberal Democrat MP Mark Oaten sue a fur auction house, private equity and pensions magnate Edmund Truell hit by a commercial fraud claim and Charles Russell Speechlys file a contract claim against two of its previous clients in the Middle East.
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August 20, 2026
A California federal judge prohibited the CEO of a defunct tax compliance startup who was accused by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission of swindling $13 million from investors from deceiving anyone or disseminating false information regarding investments in violation of securities laws.