Federal
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February 12, 2026
Canadian Living In Wash. Says FBAR Penalty Required Jury
A Canadian man living in the U.S. was unconstitutionally fined more than $700,000 for failing to report his foreign bank accounts, he told a Washington federal court, arguing that the amount is excessive and that its assessment violates his right to a jury trial.
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February 12, 2026
Dinsmore Adds IRS Senior Counsel As Tax Partner In DC
An attorney who spent more than a decade working as an attorney and reviewer at the Internal Revenue Service has joined Dinsmore & Shohl LLP's Washington, D.C., tax group, the firm announced this week.
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February 11, 2026
Goldstein Says He Lost Millions On Poker In 2016
SCOTUSblog founder Thomas Goldstein told the Maryland federal jury in his tax fraud trial Wednesday that he lost nearly $3 million playing poker in 2016, directly contradicting charges that he underreported his gambling winnings, and pinned the blame for tax filing errors on his own miscalculations and shoddy work from his accountants.
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February 11, 2026
Senate Joins House In Overturning DC Tax Changes
A Washington, D.C., local law that uncouples elements of the city's tax code from federal tax law would be repealed under a resolution passed in the U.S. Senate on Wednesday.
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February 11, 2026
House OKs Ending Canada Tariffs After GOP Block Fails
The U.S. House of Representatives approved a resolution Wednesday evening that would end President Donald Trump's tariffs on Canadian imports, a day after Republican lawmakers were unable to pass a measure blocking that kind of effort.
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February 11, 2026
US Budget Deficit Projected To Hit $3.1T By 2036
The U.S. budget deficit is tracking toward $3.1 trillion by 2036 after the first year of President Donald Trump's administration, the Congressional Budget Office said Wednesday, saying the costs of last year's reconciliation bill are expected to only be somewhat balanced out by Trump's tariff regime.
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February 11, 2026
Tax Court Allows IRS To Collect From Nurse Anesthetist
The Internal Revenue Service can continue collecting taxes and penalties for frivolous tax submissions from a nurse anesthetist who improperly reported that she earned no income for five years, the U.S. Tax Court said in an opinion released Wednesday.
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February 11, 2026
Tax Biz Owner Owes Taxes, Fraud Penalties, Tax Court Says
The owner of a tax return business who held degrees in business and accounting is on the hook for $73,000 in taxes and fraud penalties after the U.S. Tax Court found he claimed inflated deductions for business and other expenses.
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February 11, 2026
Tax Group Of The Year: Sullivan & Cromwell
Sullivan & Cromwell LLP's tax practice showed the depth of its experience this past year, advising on multijurisdictional tax litigations to playing a key role counseling RedBird Capital Partners in a deal that merged Paramount and Skydance, helping it earn a place among the 2025 Law360 Tax Groups of the Year.
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February 11, 2026
7th Circ. Denies New Trial To Convicted Tax Preparer
A tax preparer convicted of filing false returns and stealing her grandmother's pension will not receive a new trial, the Seventh Circuit ruled, rejecting her argument that a lower court made a mistake in allowing her to represent herself.
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February 11, 2026
Morgan Lewis Adds 30-Year Baker McKenzie Atty, Ex-Tax Chair
The former chair of Baker McKenzie's Americas tax practice has joined Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP's Washington, D.C., team, where he'll work as a partner on transfer pricing disputes and tax matters, the firm announced Wednesday.
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February 10, 2026
Tom Goldstein To Testify At Tax Trial Wednesday
SCOTUSblog co-founder Thomas Goldstein will take the stand in his tax fraud trial Wednesday, after the government rested its case with an IRS agent tallying up $3.6 million that she said went unreported on his 2016 tax return.
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February 10, 2026
DC Circ. Seeks End To Atty Fight Over Fees From IRS Deal
The D.C. Circuit wants to stop a fight over almost $800,000 in attorney fees from a suit against the Internal Revenue Service that was settled years ago, telling the parties' counsel during oral arguments Tuesday they'd like to put the matter to bed for good.
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February 10, 2026
Senate Blocks Resolution To Reject IRS Corp. AMT Guidance
The Senate rejected a resolution Tuesday that had been introduced to reverse IRS guidance that would allow corporations to use different methods to calculate partnership investment income under the corporate alternative minimum tax.
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February 10, 2026
Tax Court Lets IRS Claw Back Child Credit Overpayment
The IRS can use standard deficiency procedures to recover nearly $16,000 that was erroneously refunded to a woman after the agency's computer system mistakenly boosted her additional child tax credit, the U.S. Tax Court held Tuesday.
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February 10, 2026
Broker Renews Fight Against $6.6M Civil Fraud Penalties
An insurance broker renewed challenges to a $6.6 million civil fraud tax penalty over its captive deductions by arguing that the assessment required a jury trial, telling a Pennsylvania federal court that recent rulings, including in the Fifth Circuit, have reinvigorated requests the court previously denied.
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February 10, 2026
GAO Urges IRS To Address Retention Tax Credit Errors
The Internal Revenue Service should complete an improper payment estimate for the pandemic-era employee retention credit in order to guide future decisions on employment tax relief, the U.S. Government Accountability Office said in a report published Tuesday.
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February 10, 2026
IRS Misses Its Goal For Paperless Processing, TIGTA Says
The Internal Revenue Service did not meet its goal to achieve paperless processing for all tax returns by the 2025 tax filing season, the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration said in a report released Tuesday.
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February 10, 2026
DOJ Drops Bid For Offshore Asset Freeze In $28M Tax Suit
The U.S. Department of Justice and a family of overseas-trust beneficiaries struck a partial deal in a $28 million tax suit in Florida federal court, with the DOJ dropping its push to freeze the family's assets and the family agreeing to temporarily limit their account withdrawals.
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February 09, 2026
Goldstein's Defense Questions Missing Tax Emails
Document retention at the outside accounting firm for SCOTUSblog founder Thomas Goldstein and his law firm took center stage at the U.S. Supreme Court lawyers' tax fraud trial Monday, as the defense claimed that the accountants' internal emails about Goldstein's tax returns were never produced despite being sought in subpoenas.
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February 09, 2026
9th Circ. Backs Comerica's Escape From Investor Suit
The Ninth Circuit backed Comerica's win in an investor dispute led by a pension fund accusing the bank of misleading investors about its oversight of a U.S. Department of the Treasury contract, concluding a California federal judge was right to permanently toss the case for failure to state a claim.
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February 09, 2026
Calif. Woman Owes Refund For Health Credits, Tax Court Says
A California woman was well above the income threshold to be a recipient of more than $11,000 in tax credits intended to be used for low-income individuals to purchase healthcare through the federal marketplace, a special U.S. Tax Court trial judge said Monday.
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February 09, 2026
Tax Court Upholds IRS Deficiency Over Restaurant Receipts
A deceased attorney and his wife underreported income from a family restaurant business and failed to back up depreciation deductions they claimed for two rental properties, the U.S. Tax Court ruled Monday, sustaining most of the findings of the Internal Revenue Service.
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February 09, 2026
Tax Court Says Rancher Isn't Hobbyist, Can Deduct Expenses
A Texas rancher can deduct more than $205,000 in farm expenses the IRS said were not linked to a for-profit activity after the U.S. Tax Court ruled Monday that he was trying to run a bona fide ranching business even though it wasn't profitable.
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February 09, 2026
Renewable Fuel Co. Owner Cops To $6M Tax Credit Scheme
The owner of a renewable fuel company copped to a scheme that sought more than $6 million in fraudulent tax credits related to how much biodiesel the company claimed to produce, according to Florida federal court documents.
'It Takes Time To Write': Jackson On High Court's Tariff Ruling
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson has provided an unusual update on the court's decision over President Donald Trump's authority to impose emergency tariffs, saying in a TV interview that the justices are still working on what is one of their most anticipated rulings this term.
The Tax Angle: DC Home Rule Override, GOP Messaging
From a look at congressional efforts to overturn a Washington, D.C., law decoupling the district's tax code from the 2025 GOP budget law to Republicans' efforts to recast the budget law as more favorable to working families, here's a peek into a reporter's notebook on a few developing tax stories.
$19M In Foreign Account Penalties Required Jury, Court Told
A U.S.-German citizen who failed to report his foreign accounts to the IRS told a Florida federal court that his $19 million punishment violates his right to a jury trial under a U.S. Supreme Court ruling that curbed the use of in-house agency courts to hand down stiff penalties.
'It Takes Time To Write': Jackson On High Court's Tariff Ruling
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson has provided an unusual update on the court's decision over President Donald Trump's authority to impose emergency tariffs, saying in a TV interview that the justices are still working on what is one of their most anticipated rulings this term.
The Tax Angle: DC Home Rule Override, GOP Messaging
From a look at congressional efforts to overturn a Washington, D.C., law decoupling the district's tax code from the 2025 GOP budget law to Republicans' efforts to recast the budget law as more favorable to working families, here's a peek into a reporter's notebook on a few developing tax stories.
$19M In Foreign Account Penalties Required Jury, Court Told
A U.S.-German citizen who failed to report his foreign accounts to the IRS told a Florida federal court that his $19 million punishment violates his right to a jury trial under a U.S. Supreme Court ruling that curbed the use of in-house agency courts to hand down stiff penalties.
Featured Stories
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The Tax Angle: DC Home Rule Override, GOP Messaging
From a look at congressional efforts to overturn a Washington, D.C., law decoupling the district's tax code from the 2025 GOP budget law to Republicans' efforts to recast the budget law as more favorable to working families, here's a peek into a reporter's notebook on a few developing tax stories.
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5 Takeaways From 5th Circ.'s Limited Partner Tax Decision
The Fifth Circuit has issued a long-awaited opinion holding that partners with limited liability under state law qualify for an exclusion from the self-employment tax, and the decision offers five notable takeaways that experts said may shed light on the potential fate of partnership taxation and compliance.
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The Tax Angle: Congressional Taxwriters Head For The Exits
This edition of The Tax Angle examines upcoming retirements among members of the Senate Finance and House Ways and Means committees ahead of the midterm elections this November.
Expert Analysis
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What's At Stake In Possible Circuit Split On Medicaid Rule
A recent Eleventh Circuit decision, reviving Florida's lawsuit against a federal rule that reduces Medicaid funding based on agreements between hospitals, sets up a potential circuit split with the Fifth Circuit, with important ramifications for states looking to private administrators to run provider tax programs, say Liz Goodman, Karuna Seshasai and Rebecca Pitt at FTI Consulting.
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Malpractice Claim Assignability Continues To Divide Courts
Recent decisions from courts across the country demonstrate how different jurisdictions balance competing policy interests in determining whether legal malpractice claims can be assigned, providing a framework to identify when and how to challenge any attempted assignment, says Christopher Blazejewski at Sherin & Lodgen.
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Where PCAOB Goes Next After A Year Of Uncertainty
The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board will likely bring fewer enforcement matters in 2026, reflecting a notable change in board priorities following the change in administrations, say Robert Cox and Nicole Byrd at Whiteford Taylor and Matthew Rogers at Bridgehaven Consulting.
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5th Circ. Ruling Clarifies Tax Rules For Limited Partners
The Fifth Circuit’s Jan. 16 decision in Sirius Solutions v. Commissioner provides greater tax planning certainty by adopting a bright-line test for determining when partners in limited liability companies are exempt from self-employment tax, say attorneys at K&L Gates.
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NYC Bar Opinion Warns Attys On Use Of AI Recording Tools
Attorneys who use artificial intelligence tools to record, transcribe and summarize conversations with clients should heed the New York City Bar Association’s recent opinion addressing the legal and ethical risks posed by such tools, and follow several best practices to avoid violating the Rules of Professional Conduct, say attorneys at Smith Gambrell.
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4 Quick Emotional Resets For Lawyers With Conflict Fatigue
Though the emotional wear and tear of legal work can trap attorneys in conflict fatigue — leaving them unable to shake off tense interactions or return to a calm baseline — simple therapeutic techniques for resetting the nervous system can help break the cycle, says Chantel Cohen at CWC Coaching & Therapy.
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Rescheduling Cannabis Marks New Tax Era For Operators
As the attorney general takes steps to move cannabis from Schedule I to Schedule III of the Controlled Substances Act, operators and advisers should prepare by considering the significant changes this will bring from tax, state, industry and market perspectives, says Michael Harlow at CohnReznick.
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Judges On AI: How Judicial Use Informs Guardrails
U.S. Magistrate Judge Maritza Dominguez Braswell at the U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado discusses why having a sense of how generative AI tools behave, where they add value, where they introduce risk and how they are reshaping the practice of law is key for today's judges.
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Presidential Pardon Brokering Can Create Risks For Attys
The emergence of an apparent “pardon shopping” marketplace, in which attorneys treat presidential pardons as a market product, may invite investigative scrutiny of counsel and potential criminal charges grounded in bribery, wire fraud and other statutes, says David Klasing at The Tax Law Offices of David W. Klasing.
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Key False Claims Act Trends From The Last Year
The False Claims Act remains a powerful enforcement tool after some record verdicts and settlements in 2025, and while traditional fraud areas remain a priority, new initiatives are raising questions about its expanding application, says Veronica Nannis at Joseph Greenwald.
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Hosting Exchange Students Makes Me A Better Lawyer
Opening my home to foreign exchange students makes me a better lawyer not just because prioritizing visiting high schoolers forces me to hone my organization and time management skills but also because sharing the study-abroad experience with newcomers and locals reconnects me to my community, says Alison Lippa at Nicolaides Fink.
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How A 1947 Tugboat Ruling May Shape Work Product In AI Era
Rapid advances in generative artificial intelligence test work-product principles first articulated in the U.S. Supreme Court’s nearly 80-year-old Hickman v. Taylor decision, as courts and ethics bodies confront whether disclosure of attorneys’ AI prompts and outputs would reveal their thought processes, say Larry Silver and Sasha Burton at Langsam Stevens.
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Navigating Privilege Law Patchwork In Dual-Purpose Comms
Three years after the U.S. Supreme Court declined to resolve a circuit split in In re: Grand Jury, federal courts remain split as to when attorney-client privilege applies to dual-purpose legal and business communications, and understanding the fragmented landscape is essential for managing risks, say attorneys at Covington.