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March 19, 2026
Businesses are not automatically linked for the purposes of determining state aid eligibility merely because an individual holds a majority stake in each of them, the European Court of Justice said Thursday in a dispute between a Latvian company and the country's tax authorities.
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March 19, 2026
A top tax official in the European Union's executive body said Thursday that EU countries must be prepared to make some trade-offs, for instance on information exchange and information technology investment, if they want to achieve tax simplification.
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March 18, 2026
Online marketplace Temu must refund customers for passed-on costs related to the Trump administration's now-invalidated International Emergency Economic Powers Act tariffs, a consumer leading a proposed nationwide class action told an Illinois state court.
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March 18, 2026
A Pennsylvania federal jury on Tuesday found a military contractor guilty of 13 counts of defrauding the Defense Logistics Agency of more than $1 million and failing to file corporate tax returns.
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March 18, 2026
A Rhode Island federal court entered a final $3.3 million tax judgment against the first "Survivor" winner, clearing the way for the federal government to start debt collection proceedings to recoup funds tied to the former contestant's tax avoidance on his prize money.
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March 18, 2026
An Anchorage, Alaska, physician was sentenced to six and a half years in prison for committing over $16 million in healthcare fraud and tax evasion as part of a scheme that injected sick patients with the wrong medications or dosages, the federal government said Wednesday.
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March 18, 2026
A man who alleged that the IRS violated his privacy rights in its summons of personal financial documents from Coinbase failed to properly serve the U.S. in his attempt to block the summons, a California federal judge said Wednesday, dismissing the case.
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March 18, 2026
An investment company's bid to restore a self-employment tax exemption for its limited partners improperly relies on state law to define their federal tax status, New York University's Tax Law Center told the Second Circuit in an amicus brief supporting the IRS.
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March 18, 2026
Two tax preparation companies don't have enough interest in their clients' refunds to stop the IRS from issuing batch denials of thousands of pandemic-era worker credit claims, the Ninth Circuit found, affirming an Arizona district court's ruling.
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March 18, 2026
An Indiana training program for electricians may be considered a school and, thus, become eligible for a property tax exemption after the tax board too narrowly interpreted the definition of a school, the Indiana Tax Court said.
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March 18, 2026
Delaware authorized its counties to subpoena witnesses and evidence under certain conditions in disputes over nonresidential real property's assessed value as part of a bill signed by the governor.
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March 17, 2026
A Fourth Circuit panel expressed skepticism Tuesday over the IRS' pursuit of a decades-old debt from a Maryland woman whose late husband's fraudulent activities triggered the liability, with one judge calling the government's interpretation of an eligible liability for spousal relief "really tricky."
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March 17, 2026
A GOP-led panel in the U.S. House of Representatives on Tuesday advanced legislation that would raise the pleading standards for proposed class action federal benefits lawsuits and delay the start of discovery in those disputes, with Democrats on the committee voting to oppose the legislation.
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March 17, 2026
A one-time income tax refund worth up to $500 per household was given final approval by the Georgia Senate, and so the state's lawmakers have elected to cut across-the-board refund checks to taxpayers for a fourth straight year.
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March 17, 2026
South Dakota will allow counties to implement a county-wide gross receipts tax with revenue that goes toward a property tax reduction fund under a law signed by the governor.
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March 17, 2026
A Pennsylvania school district's policy of only appealing property assessments over $500,000, which resulted in appeals involving several properties owned by a mall, violates the state's constitution, an appeals court affirmed Tuesday.
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March 17, 2026
Mississippi will offer energy storage facilities that use battery energy storage systems a property tax break for energy projects under a bill signed by the governor.
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March 16, 2026
A top U.S. banking regulator is seconding the banking industry's call for the Seventh Circuit to block Illinois' tax and tip swipe-fee ban, arguing a lower-court judge missed the "forest for the trees" in ruling the state-law restrictions are enforceable against banks it oversees.
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March 16, 2026
A New York federal court threw out claims by three pension plans against a London brokerage firm that, according to the plans, executed fraudulent refund claims for them to the Danish tax authority, finding the brokerage had insufficient ties to New York.
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March 16, 2026
South Dakota eliminated a task force that oversaw the assessment and taxation of agricultural land and required the state Department of Revenue to provide data relating to the valuation of such land to state legislative tax committees under a bill signed by the governor.
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March 16, 2026
The Georgia Court of Appeals said Monday that nonattorneys can't be allowed to represent unincorporated associations in court, backing a trial court's dismissal of a minister's bid to represent his church in a property tax dispute with his home county.
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March 16, 2026
A Massachusetts home with no heat, furnace or insulation was overvalued by a local assessor, the state tax board said in a decision released Monday.
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March 16, 2026
The Internal Revenue Service violated the Seventh Amendment by imposing civil fraud penalties without a jury first reviewing them, a partnership told the Fifth Circuit, arguing the penalties' common-law roots allow the entity to invoke constitutional protections in its conservation easement tax deduction dispute.
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March 14, 2026
A South Carolina attorney and lobbyist who has billed himself as a fixer for prisoners seeking clemency from President Donald Trump made an appearance in Brooklyn federal court Saturday, following his arrest over accusations that he tried to extort a client for over half a million dollars.
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March 14, 2026
Virginia lawmakers have given final approval to legislation that would tax and regulate the sale of adult-use cannabis, sending the bill to Democratic Gov. Abigail Spanberger, who is expected to sign it into law and bring to a close a half-decade of legal cannabis limbo for the state.