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July 22, 2026
The U.S. Department of Labor's employee benefits subagency transmitted a proposal affecting a popular exemption to strict prohibitions on many types of transactions involving federally regulated benefit plans to a White House office for review, teeing up the regulation for release.
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July 22, 2026
The number of people who lost or renounced their U.S. citizenship totaled nearly 1,800 in the second quarter of 2026 as logged by the U.S. Treasury Department, up 68.5% year-over-year and 21.8% from the previous quarter, the IRS said Wednesday.
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July 22, 2026
The U.S. Department of Labor's employee benefits arm unveiled a proposal Wednesday that would provide more opportunities for electronic delivery of employer-provided health plans' mandatory disclosures.
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July 21, 2026
A California federal judge wrongly denied H&R Block's bid to make two filers arbitrate allegations that it unlawfully shared private data with Meta and Google, the tax preparation company told the Ninth Circuit, disputing the district court's finding that an underlying arbitration agreement is too unfair.
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July 21, 2026
The Internal Revenue Service is trying to disallow a partnership donor's $19.1 million charitable deduction for a Georgia conservation easement with limited expert testimony, the partnership told the U.S. Tax Court, arguing that approach violates the rules governing valuation cases.
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July 21, 2026
Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va., proposed legislation Tuesday that would create guardrails on artificial intelligence and impose disclosure requirements on data centers' demands on power and water infrastructure and effects on the environment.
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July 21, 2026
Pharmaceutical giant Amgen has agreed to pay $74 million to resolve an investor class action alleging it hid a $10.7 billion tax bill from shareholders, according to an agreement filed in New York federal court.
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July 21, 2026
Rapid adoption of artificial intelligence could grow U.S. federal tax revenues by up to $216 billion in 2030, yet that figure would be twice as large if income gains weren't skewed toward capital instead of labor, the Yale Budget Lab said.
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July 21, 2026
A proposed class action looking to force Nintendo to reimburse customers for increased costs that were explicitly tied to President Donald Trump's now struck-down tariff regime should be handled in arbitration or tossed entirely, the company told a Seattle federal court.
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July 21, 2026
A Minnesota childcare center that missed a filing deadline related to a property tax exemption for educational institutions should not have been allowed to appeal the matter to the state tax court, a county told the state Supreme Court, urging it to review the case.
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July 21, 2026
The United Nations has released draft versions of two protocols under negotiation for the framework convention on international tax cooperation.
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July 21, 2026
Electricity bills will be freed from value-added tax to relieve financial pressure on British households and small businesses this winter, Prime Minister Andy Burnham said Tuesday.
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July 20, 2026
An Ernst & Young customer's personal, financial and tax information might have been compromised after it was determined cybercriminals accessed a third-party support ticket system used by EY's IT staff, he said in a proposed class action in New York federal court Monday.
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July 20, 2026
The Trump administration on Monday urged the D.C. Circuit to closely evaluate a Russian court's determination that an underlying arbitration agreement is invalid as it weighs whether to enforce a nearly $5 billion arbitral award against the Kremlin, saying circumstances surrounding the ruling should be a factor.
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July 20, 2026
The U.S. Court of Federal Claims' long-awaited decision on a California wind farm's valuation for a now-defunct cash grant program offers insight into an issue on which the IRS has issued little guidance: how to value clean energy projects financed by the investment tax credit.
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July 20, 2026
A Virginia federal judge should dismiss a suit challenging the U.S. Department of Justice's $1.8 billion settlement fund that was to be included in a deal to close President Donald Trump's tax leak suit, the federal government said, arguing the case is moot.
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July 20, 2026
The Pittsburgh Water and Sewer Authority has continued to improperly collect stormwater fees even after a recent Pennsylvania Supreme Court decision found the fees to be illegal taxes, the city's public school district said in a complaint filed Monday, arguing it is entitled to a $1.9 million refund.
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July 20, 2026
Microsoft Corp. stands to make an "unjustified windfall profit" through refunds of President Donald Trump's now-invalidated global tariff regime, according to a proposed consumer class action removed to Washington federal court Friday.
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July 20, 2026
The Internal Revenue Service owes a water transfer services company nearly $351,000 in employee retention tax credit refunds, the business told a Pennsylvania federal court, saying the agency improperly retained the overpayments to offset a supposed civil penalty against the company.
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July 20, 2026
The U.S. Department of the Interior is asking the Seventh Circuit to reject a Wisconsin village's appeal that seeks to undo the agency's decision to place 500 acres into trust for the Oneida Nation, arguing that the municipality can't overcome Congress' power to regulate Indian affairs.
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July 20, 2026
The most coherent way to tax digital services is with value-added taxes that have place-of-supply rules to ensure they apply on a destination basis to final domestic consumption, according to a working paper by the International Monetary Fund.
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July 20, 2026
The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp. proposed a rule Monday on monetary penalties for failures to provide information on single-employer and multiemployer benefit plans that clarifies how plan sponsors can lower what's owed when they run afoul of their disclosure duties under federal benefits law.
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July 20, 2026
The U.S. Court of International Trade has selected a new underlying case as the one to test the federal government's updates on its system for refunding duties charged under President Donald Trump's struck-down global tariff regime, though it otherwise kept in place certain reporting and hearing deadlines.
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July 20, 2026
A civil rights litigator who left a top role at the Washington state attorney general's office last fall to step in for a retiring state Supreme Court justice is vying this election season to retain the seat for the next two years, drawing opposition from a Ballard Spahr LLP tax attorney and a longtime family law practitioner.
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July 17, 2026
A commercial real estate owner who was convicted of tax evasion for concealing roughly $4.8 million in income from the IRS was sentenced to nearly two years in prison by a Washington federal judge.