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August 06, 2026
A pair of law firms are alleging in Georgia federal court that the Internal Revenue Service wrongly denied their claims to employee retention credits, a tax incentive created during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic to encourage businesses to keep workers on their payrolls.
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August 06, 2026
Lawmakers behind the European Union's carbon import tax say the policy supports global climate action while remaining compliant with World Trade Organization rules — although experts note that treating all traders equally can be tricky in practice.
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August 05, 2026
A Colorado federal judge sentenced a Texas man Wednesday to 3.5 years in prison for his role in the operation and promotion of a multimillion-dollar fraudulent investment fund, ordering nearly $6 million to be paid in restitution.
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August 05, 2026
Brazil-based meat giant JBS SA agreed to pay $31 million to shareholders of its subsidiary Pilgrim's Pride Corp. to settle a suit accusing JBS, its affiliates and its Pilgrim's board appointees of unfairly increasing JBS' clout and access to dividends and tax benefits at the expense of minority shareholders of Pilgrim's.
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August 05, 2026
The U.S. Tax Court has jurisdiction in the case of a partnership that missed the 90-day window for filing its petition under an Internal Revenue Code rule enacted in 2015, the court held Wednesday, finding that the rule warranted a result different from that reached in an earlier case.
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August 05, 2026
Taiwanese-based Everlight Electronics will pay the U.S. government $5.15 million to resolve duty evasion allegations in a dispute brought under the False Claims Act, the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Maryland announced Wednesday.
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August 05, 2026
A Texas federal court ruled Wednesday that the National Firearms Act and its enforcement of registration and transfer requirements are unconstitutional in light of the 2025 federal budget bill's elimination of taxes on certain firearms, handing a win to several gun rights advocacy groups.
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August 05, 2026
A Connecticut attorney who served prison time for tax offenses cannot proceed with most of a suit that seeks the restoration of his right to possess a firearm, a federal judge said in a ruling Wednesday.
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August 05, 2026
An Ohio federal court wrongly found that the U.S. government couldn't collect on a man's federal tax liabilities of over $750,000 via a property sale, the government told the Sixth Circuit, saying while the man's mother holds legal title to the property, he is its equitable owner.
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August 05, 2026
The U.K.'s Labour government should change its plans for new cross-border tax reporting rules because the draft rules are overly complex for financial firms and the timeline is unrealistic, an industry group warned.
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August 04, 2026
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani has extended the deadline for applying for exemptions from a "pied-à-terre" tax on second NYC homes that the city values at $1 million or more, setting the new deadline as Sept. 18.
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August 04, 2026
A mortgage lender that said it had to suspend operations during the pandemic can't claim $5 million in refunds for worker tax credits, a California federal magistrate judge said, finding the lender failed to show that its sales operations were partially suspended due to a government order.
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August 04, 2026
Australia is seeking feedback on draft legislation that would extend an overhaul to the capital gains tax system to specialized investment trusts, shield deceased estates from a new minimum tax and make several other changes.
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August 04, 2026
A former employee of federal contractor Booz Allen Hamilton asked a Florida federal court to toss claims against him by Sen. Rick Scott over the leak of his personal tax returns, saying the suit was filed too late and in the wrong jurisdiction.
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August 04, 2026
A Michigan federal judge on Tuesday sanctioned an attorney in a tax foreclosure suit and said he would not allow the parties to continue bickering via motion because "this case is over."
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August 04, 2026
The Senate Judiciary Committee voted to advance acting Attorney General Todd Blanche's nomination for the permanent position Tuesday, after Sens. Thom Tillis, R-N.C., and John Cornyn, R-Texas, said they would support him.
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August 04, 2026
The Florida attorney general has 10 days to submit a revised title and summary for a ballot question that proposes boosting the state's homestead tax exemption, after a state judge found the current language misleading and ordered a change.
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August 04, 2026
The Oregon Tax Court refused to lower an apartment complex's $79 million valuation but agreed with the owner that the land component of the property was undervalued, adjusting the land and building values accordingly.
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August 03, 2026
California, Arizona and 23 other states sued the Trump administration in the U.S. Court of International Trade on Monday claiming the president is trying for a third time to impose illegal tariffs against nearly all the country's trading partners, this time under the cover of federal law meant to combat forced labor.
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August 03, 2026
An April order changing the legal classifications of some medical marijuana products actually undermines a New Mexico marijuana company's bid to claim some business deductions rather than supporting it, the Internal Revenue Service told the U.S. Tax Court.
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August 03, 2026
U.S. Treasury Department officials subjected a Chinese American IRS senior manager to a campaign of discrimination and harassment, including removal from her leadership position and replacement by a white male colleague, the employee told a D.C. federal court.
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August 03, 2026
A Bermuda-based investment firm was a U.K. tax resident for several years and therefore may be liable for over £40.5 million ($54.3 million) in corporate tax because its beneficiary had effective control, a London tribunal ruled.
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August 03, 2026
Two holdout GOP senators said Monday that they would support confirmation of acting Attorney General Todd Blanche to the permanent role after he gave assurances that President Donald Trump's $1.8 billion "anti-weaponization" fund, created as part of a settlement with the IRS, would not move forward.
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July 31, 2026
Law360 is pleased to announce the Rising Stars of 2026, our list of more than 160 attorneys under 40 whose legal accomplishments belie their age.
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July 31, 2026
President Donald Trump will ask the Eleventh Circuit to overturn a Florida federal judge's order blocking a settlement deal that would have given him and others broad protection from federal tax audits and investigations, according to a notice filed Friday.