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July 02, 2026
California would extend by five years a tax credit program for businesses that agree to hire workers and invest in the state under budget-related legislation approved by state lawmakers and sent to Gov. Gavin Newsom.
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July 02, 2026
The IRS quietly rolled out an online portal dedicated to individuals and businesses seeking to take advantage of the Federal Claims Court's decision allowing a California business owner to recover late-filed refunds for penalties and interest tied to the COVID-19 pandemic.
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July 02, 2026
A Massachusetts state court has ordered celebrity chef Barbara Lynch to pay nearly $1 million in back taxes and interest to the city of Boston, months after losing a bid to lift a default judgment in the case.
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July 02, 2026
U.S. Customs and Border Protection received tariff refund requests covering another 1.6 million entries in a day's time after opening a second phase of eligibility for its system, according to a declaration filed with the U.S. Court of International Trade.
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July 01, 2026
Lululemon has been accused of boosting prices in response to the Trump administration's global tariffs then failing to refund customers when the U.S. Supreme Court invalidated the duties, becoming one of the latest household brand names to face such claims.
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July 01, 2026
The New Jersey Senate and the state's General Assembly recently passed three data center regulation bills that will be considered by Gov. Mikie Sherrill.
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July 01, 2026
Lawyers for convicted SCOTUSblog founder Thomas Goldstein have rejected prosecutors' claims that the famed U.S. Supreme Court lawyer may have deleted messages between himself and his poker backers, calling the government "hypocritical" after it had previously argued that Goldstein could authenticate the messages if he took the stand at trial.
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July 01, 2026
An attorney for Frank Carone, the former chief of staff to former New York Mayor Eric Adams, on Wednesday said there are "glaring holes" in the indictment alleging Carone took bribes from a hotel owner in exchange for a multimillion-dollar migrant housing contract.
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July 01, 2026
The Third Circuit found a Pennsylvania insurance business owner guilty of two counts of tax evasion, affirming Wednesday a lower court jury's conclusion that he willfully concealed a bank account on 2016 tax forms while the IRS was pursuing collection action against him.
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July 01, 2026
The U.S. Department of Labor is gearing up to repeal a Biden-era rule allowing retirement fiduciaries to consider issues like climate change and social justice when choosing investments, sending the proposed repeal to the White House for review.
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July 01, 2026
Pullman & Comley LLC has escaped claims that a Connecticut town illegally delegated its tax collection authority to it and one of its attorneys, with a judge agreeing to dissolve an order blocking a home sale and dismiss the action at the request of the parties.
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July 01, 2026
Two medical marijuana companies are seeking to intervene in a pending legal challenge to a U.S. Department of Justice final rule loosening federal restrictions on state-sanctioned medical cannabis, saying they would be harmed by the rule's rescission.
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July 01, 2026
Germany cannot create a fictitious step in the journey of shipped goods and therefore deny a tax exemption to a chemical distribution firm because a transport document is missing, a European Union court said Wednesday.
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June 30, 2026
California will expand its sales and use tax base to include prewritten software, make permanent its business tax credit limit and halve the $800 minimum tax for limited liability companies, under the last budget that Gov. Gavin Newsom signed as the state's chief executive.
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June 30, 2026
A two-family property in Massachusetts was correctly valued for tax purposes, the state Appellate Tax Board said in an opinion released Tuesday, rejecting the owner's argument that the land was prone to flooding and had no value.
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June 30, 2026
Increases in income tax collection in the Asia-Pacific region helped drive a modest increase in the region's average ratio of tax to gross domestic product in 2024, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development said Tuesday, though it still sits well below the OECD average.
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June 30, 2026
A Massachusetts property owner should have his home's value lowered after successfully proving it was overvalued by his town's board of assessors, the state Appellate Tax Board said in a ruling released Tuesday.
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June 30, 2026
A former Morgan Lewis attorney suspended for his handling of a tax case and making misrepresentations to disciplinary authorities investigating his conduct failed to prove he was morally qualified to return to the practice of law, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court agreed Tuesday.
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June 30, 2026
A waterfront property in Massachusetts partially located in a resource conservation area and with land in a flood zone was overvalued for tax purposes, a state tax panel said in an opinion released Tuesday that lowered the valuation.
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June 30, 2026
The U.S. Tax Court's improper withholding of an appraiser report as evidence resulted in a flawed opinion last year that substantially slashed the value of a North Carolina conservation easement donation by 94%, the partnership donor told the Tenth Circuit.
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June 30, 2026
Two Massachusetts homeowners failed to prove their property had been overvalued and resulted in a tax assessment that was higher than it should have been, the state Appellate Tax Board ruled.
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June 30, 2026
Penalties and interest of more than $250,000 on a Massachusetts estate tax bill paid nearly seven years late were reasonable and lawful, the state's top court affirmed Tuesday.
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June 30, 2026
The abolition of a de minimis customs exemption and a new duty on low-value parcels entering the European Union, set to apply starting Wednesday, do not specifically target China, a senior European Commission official said.
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June 29, 2026
Virginia, the state with the country's largest number of data centers, enacted a budget Monday that includes a first-in-the-nation electricity tax on the centers.
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June 29, 2026
The Second Circuit revived penalty collection challenges Monday by six companies found to owe $380 million to the IRS from participating in a tax scheme, saying an appeals officer's failure to verify that fines had been approved by a supervisor invalidated the collection process.