Federal

  • April 14, 2025

    IRS Delays Tax Deadlines For Tenn., Ark. After Storms

    Taxpayers in Tennessee and Arkansas will have until Nov. 3 to file individual and business tax returns and make payments after the states were hit by severe storms and tornadoes this month, the Internal Revenue Service said Monday.

  • April 14, 2025

    Property Trustees Settle $1M Refund Dispute With IRS

    Trustees of a California property and the IRS agreed to settle a nearly $1 million tax refund dispute over whether the property was being used for business and whether the trust was therefore allowed to carry back operating losses generated in 2017 and 2018.

  • April 14, 2025

    IRS Cancels Hearing On Commercial Green Vehicle Credits

    The Internal Revenue Service on Monday canceled a hearing scheduled for April 28 on proposed rules for obtaining tax credits for commercial green vehicles under provisions of the Inflation Reduction Act.

  • April 11, 2025

    IRS Waives Penalties For Some Late Microcaptive Disclosures

    Certain participants in reportable microcaptive insurance transactions will have penalties waived in cases where they fail to file required disclosure statements due April 14, so long as they file them by July 31, the Internal Revenue Service said Friday.

  • April 11, 2025

    Feds Seek Release Of Informant Who Falsely Accused Bidens

    California federal prosecutors are seeking the release of a former FBI informant who is serving a six-year prison sentence for falsely telling agents that former President Joe Biden and his son Hunter Biden had accepted bribes from a Ukrainian energy company.

  • April 11, 2025

    Family Should Face Charges In $81M Tax Scheme, US Says

    The U.S. government urged a New York federal court not to trim its complaint against the former shareholders of a family holding company accused of participating in an $81 million tax scheme, saying the family illegally avoided paying capital gains on its sale of the company.

  • April 11, 2025

    NFT Owner Admits To Dodging Tax On Crypto Art Sales

    A Pennsylvania man pled guilty to filing false tax returns and underreporting his income by $13.1 million after selling 97 nonfungible token artworks, federal prosecutors said Friday.

  • April 11, 2025

    Trump Tariffs Will Hurt US Worse Than EU, Bloc Official Says

    The wide-ranging tariffs imposed by President Donald Trump's administration, including those that were recently paused for 90 days, will harm the U.S. worse than the European Union, the bloc's economic commissioner said Friday.

  • April 11, 2025

    Nursing Home Owner Gets 3 Years For $39M Tax Fraud

    A New Jersey federal judge sentenced a nursing home operator to three years in prison for a $39 million employment tax fraud scheme involving care centers he owned across the country, a term three times as long as what prosecutors had requested.

  • April 11, 2025

    Taxation With Representation: Norton Rose, Ropes & Gray

    In this week's Taxation With Representation, Capri Holdings sells Versace to Prada, Woodside Energy sells a liquefied natural gas terminal stake to Stonepeak, crypto infrastructure firm Ripple acquires prime brokerage platform Hidden Road, and Bain Capital takes a stake in Lincoln Financial.

  • April 11, 2025

    More Than A Dozen Firms Aided Largest Q1 Real Estate Deals

    Over a dozen law firms helped with the 10 largest real estate merger and acquisition deals in the first quarter, the majority of which were above the $1 billion mark.

  • April 11, 2025

    Weekly Internal Revenue Bulletin

    The Internal Revenue Service's weekly bulletin, issued Friday, included resident populations for determining the state housing credit ceiling for 2025.

  • April 10, 2025

    Immigration Groups Seek Unredacted Tax Data-Sharing Pact

    Immigration advocates trying to block the Internal Revenue Service from disclosing taxpayers' information to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and other agencies urged a D.C. federal court on Thursday to require the Justice Department to hand over an unredacted version of a government agreement to share the confidential data.

  • April 10, 2025

    Calif. Rep's Bill Would Shield Farmers From Retaliatory Tariffs

    A California congressman on Thursday introduced a bill in the U.S. House aiming to curb the authority of President Donald Trump to impose new or additional duties on agricultural products from countries that are major agricultural trade partners with the United States.

  • April 10, 2025

    Exec Facing Tax Evasion Charges To Remain In Custody

    An aerospace company founder facing tax evasion and other fraud charges will remain in pretrial detention because he's considered a major flight risk, a D.C. federal court ruled.

  • April 10, 2025

    Reps Intro Bill To Cap Conservation Easement Protections

    Two Republican congresswomen have introduced a bill that would put a 30-year cap on conservation easements entered into by the U.S. Department of the Interior, saying the agreements shouldn't be allowed to hamstring future generations of landowners.

  • April 10, 2025

    Tax Court OKs Nix Of Deduction For Funds Seized After Bribe

    An Ohio man can't claim a loss for the $856,000 seized from his corporation after he pled guilty to his role in a bribery scheme, the U.S. Tax Court said Thursday, affirming the Internal Revenue Service's disallowance because the loss was due to a criminal penalty.

  • April 10, 2025

    Senate Bill Would End Declared Emergency Behind Tariffs

    A bill introduced Thursday in the Senate would end the national emergency declared by President Donald Trump to underpin the global tariff regime he unveiled last week, with Sens. Rand Paul, R-Ky., Ron Wyden, D-Ore., and Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., among the sponsors.

  • April 10, 2025

    Tax Court Allows Deduction For Arrest Injury Settlement

    Part of a man's $35,000 settlement payment from a Massachusetts town following his claim that he was hurt during his arrest and incarceration on charges of domestic assault is deductible as damages paid for physical injuries, the U.S. Tax Court said Thursday.

  • April 10, 2025

    Trump's Int'l Trade Pick Says Tech Deals Sought In Tariff Talks

    President Donald Trump could look to prioritize and coordinate tech investments with countries approaching the U.S. to strike a deal to avoid higher tariff rates currently suspended, Trump's pick to lead international trade at the U.S. Department of Commerce said Thursday.

  • April 10, 2025

    Trump Treasury Pick Defends Favorable Tax Cut Rating

    President Donald Trump's pick for assistant Treasury secretary for tax policy defended the use of a favorable way to determine how much it would cost to make the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act permanent, saying Thursday it was consistent with the scoring of other budget bills.

  • April 10, 2025

    IRS-ICE Deal Could Cost $25B In Tax Revenue, Report Says

    The Internal Revenue Service's agreement to share the taxpayer records of certain non-U.S. citizens with immigration enforcement authorities could lead to a $25 billion loss in tax revenue in 2026, according to research from Yale University.

  • April 10, 2025

    Sullivan & Worcester Hires Fried Frank REIT Tax Pro

    Sullivan & Worcester LLP announced Thursday that it has hired a Fried Frank Harris Shriver & Jacobson LLP partner, noting that the attorney comes to the firm with deep real estate investment trust tax expertise.

  • April 10, 2025

    Dechert Tax Pro Jumps To Whiteford In NY

    Whiteford Taylor & Preston LLC has added an experienced transactional tax attorney from Dechert LLP as a partner to its practice in New York, the firm announced.

  • April 10, 2025

    IRS Microcaptive Rules Face Challenge By Familiar Foe

    A microcaptive insurance advisory firm that persuaded a Tennessee federal court to vacate an IRS notice imposing reporting requirements challenged the agency's new rules on the in-house arrangements, asking the same court to set aside the regulations for being just as onerous as the previous ones.

Expert Analysis

  • The Pop Culture Docket: Justice Lebovits On Gilbert And Sullivan

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    Characters in the 19th century comic operas of Gilbert and Sullivan break the rules of good lawyering by shamelessly throwing responsible critical thought to the wind, providing hilarious lessons for lawyers and judges on how to avoid a surfeit of traps and tribulations, say acting New York Supreme Court Justice Gerald Lebovits and law student Tara Scown.

  • State Of The States' AI Legal Ethics Landscape

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    Over the past year, several state bar associations, as well as the American Bar Association, have released guidance on the ethical use of artificial intelligence in legal practice, all of which share overarching themes and some nuanced differences, say Eric Pacifici and Kevin Henderson at SMB Law Group.

  • 8 Childhood Lessons That Can Help You Be A Better Attorney

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    A new school year is underway, marking a fitting time for attorneys to reflect on some fundamental life lessons from early childhood that offer a framework for problems that no legal textbook can solve, say Chris Gismondi and Chris Campbell at DLA Piper.

  • How The 2025 Tax Policy Debate Will Affect The Energy Sector

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    Regardless of the outcome of the upcoming U.S. election, 2025 will bring a major tax policy debate that could affect the energy sector more than any other part of the economy — so stakeholders who could be affected should be engaging now to make sure they understand the stakes, say attorneys at Mayer Brown.

  • This Election, We Need To Talk About Court Process

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    In recent decades, the U.S. Supreme Court has markedly transformed judicial processes — from summary judgment standards to notice pleadings — which has, in turn, affected individuals’ substantive rights, and we need to consider how the upcoming presidential election may continue this pattern, says Reuben Guttman at Guttman Buschner.

  • Mental Health First Aid: A Brief Primer For Attorneys

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    Amid a growing body of research finding that attorneys face higher rates of mental illness than the general population, firms should consider setting up mental health first aid training programs to help lawyers assess mental health challenges in their colleagues and intervene with compassion, say psychologists Shawn Healy and Tracey Meyers.

  • The Trade And Tax Issues Behind US-Canada Digital Tax Clash

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    The new Canadian digital services tax recently went into effect despite objections from the U.S., a controversy that represents an unusual mix of trade and tax policy, and many companies have been pondering how it will affect their e-commerce businesses, says Damon Pike at BDO.

  • Litigation Inspiration: Honoring Your Learned Profession

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    About 30,000 people who took the bar exam in July will learn they passed this fall, marking a fitting time for all attorneys to remember that they are members in a specialty club of learned professionals — and the more they can keep this in mind, the more benefits they will see, says Bennett Rawicki at Hilgers Graben.

  • AI May Limit Key Learning Opportunities For Young Attorneys

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    The thing that’s so powerful about artificial intelligence is also what’s most scary about it — its ability to detect patterns may curtail young attorneys’ chance to practice the lower-level work of managing cases, preventing them from ever honing the pattern recognition skills that undergird creative lawyering, says Sarah Murray at Trialcraft.

  • A Look At How De Minimis Import Rules May Soon Change

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    The planned implementation of executive actions focused on the de minimis rule as it applies to shipments means companies should use this interval to evaluate the potential applicability and impact of Section 301, Section 201 or Section 232 duties on their products, say attorneys at Holland & Knight.

  • Ruling On Foreign Dividend Break Offers 2 Tax Court Insights

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    In Varian v. Commissioner, the U.S. Tax Court allowed a taxpayer's deduction for dividends from foreign subsidiaries, providing clarity on how the U.S. Supreme Court’s Loper Bright decision may affect challenges to Treasury regulations, and revealing a potential disallowance of foreign tax credits, say attorneys at Davis Polk.

  • Why Now Is The Time For Law Firms To Hire Lateral Partners

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    Partner and associate mobility data from the second quarter of this year suggest that there's never been a better time in recent years for law firms to hire lateral candidates, particularly experienced partners — though this necessitates an understanding of potential red flags, say Julie Henson and Greg Hamman at Decipher Investigative Intelligence.

  • Considering Possible PR Risks Of Certain Legal Tactics

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    Disney and American Airlines recently abandoned certain litigation tactics in two lawsuits after fierce public backlash, illustrating why corporate counsel should consider the reputational implications of any legal strategy and partner with their communications teams to preempt public relations concerns, says Chris Gidez at G7 Reputation Advisory.

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