International
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May 20, 2025
Don't Toss US-China Tax Treaty, Industry Group Tells Treasury
The U.S. Department of the Treasury should reject the White House's plans to scrutinize the U.S.-China tax treaty, the American Chemistry Council said, telling the department that the industry group's members will face double taxation without the accord.
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May 20, 2025
UAE Grants Corp. Tax Exemption To Certain Foreign Entities
The United Arab Emirates is extending a corporate tax exemption to foreign entities doing business in the country that are wholly owned by certain tax-exempt groups, aligning their tax treatment with that of similarly owned entities incorporated in the UAE, the country said Tuesday.
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May 20, 2025
Russia Challenges EU Carbon Border Tax At WTO
Russia formally initiated a dispute at the World Trade Organization over the European Union's carbon border adjustment mechanism, suggesting that the emissions pricing system violates multilateral trade agreements, according to documents released by the organization.
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May 20, 2025
Romania Uncovers $50M In VAT Fraud In A Year
Romania's tax authority investigated 29 value-added tax fraud cases over the past year, uncovering 225 million Romanian lei ($50 million) in damages, it said Tuesday.
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May 20, 2025
Finnish Co. Fights For Access To Tax-Ruling State Aid File
A Finnish packaging maker appealed to the European Union's top court to gain access to documents from a state aid investigation into the company's Luxembourg tax arrangements, according to a lower court report released Tuesday.
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May 19, 2025
Full Tax Court Sends 'Seriously Delinquent' Debt Case To Trial
The U.S. Tax Court decided Monday for the first time that its review of a challenge to an IRS certification of tax debt as "seriously delinquent" is not limited to the agency's administrative record, saying a trial is needed in a man's case to determine the facts.
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May 19, 2025
Taxpayer Data Increasingly At Risk From DOGE, Court Told
A group of unions and advocacy organizations trying to block the White House's Department of Government Efficiency from accessing confidential taxpayer data told a D.C. federal court they fear the data is already being shared with federal agencies beyond the IRS.
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May 19, 2025
Sweden May Cut Corporate Tax Rate In Response To Tariffs
Sweden's government on Monday proposed to lower its corporate tax rate by 0.6 of a percentage point, to 20%, in response to uncertainty caused by higher tariffs, part of a broader package of tax proposals issued ahead of the country's 2026 autumn budget.
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May 19, 2025
Takeout Owner Gets Suspended Sentence For VAT Tax Dodge
The former owner of a Chinese takeout restaurant in the U.K. received a one-year prison sentence, which was suspended, for fraudulently disposing property after filing for bankruptcy instead of paying his bill of over £43,000 ($57,000) in value-added tax, the U.K.'s Insolvency Service announced Monday.
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May 19, 2025
US Budget Would Hike Taxes On Foreign Firms, Individuals
Foreign firms and individuals from countries with "unfair" fiscal policies such as digital services taxes, diverted profits taxes and the global minimum tax's backstop would pay higher U.S. taxes under the spending bill approved by the House Budget Committee.
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May 19, 2025
CFTC Should Pay $3M Atty Fees After Sanctions, Firm Says
A foreign exchange firm that won dismissal of a U.S. Commodity Futures Exchange Commission case after a New Jersey federal judge sanctioned the agency for bad faith behavior now says the CFTC should have to pay nearly $3 million for failing to own up to its mistake sooner.
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May 19, 2025
Australia Seeks Ideas On Possible Corp. Tax Improvements
Australia is looking for ideas on how to improve its corporate tax regime in hope of reversing a dip in investments into factories, machines and equipment through changes that could encourage foreign investment, an agency said Monday.
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May 19, 2025
HMRC Lays Out Tax Implications For Private Co. Stock Market
Britain's Labour government is set to legislate tax rules for private companies to use a new stock market mechanism as part of its next finance bill, according to a policy update from HM Revenue & Customs.
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May 16, 2025
Harmonized EU Soda Tax Could Be Beneficial, But Difficult
European Union-wide taxes on unhealthy products, in particular sugary drinks, could help both promote public health and generate revenue, but the bloc would need to consider a number of complicating factors, said a study released Friday.
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May 16, 2025
South Africa Rolls Out Online Foreign Royalty Tax Reporting
Those needing to submit withholding tax forms for royalties paid to or for the benefit of a foreign person from a source within South Africa can now do so online, the country's revenue agency said.
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May 16, 2025
Congress Hitting Back After Int'l Tax Talks, US Official Says
The House Ways and Means Committee's tax bill includes retaliatory measures against certain foreign taxes because lawmakers were dissatisfied with international administrative guidance they thought undermined their tax sovereignty, a U.S. Treasury Department official said Friday.
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May 16, 2025
Key House Panel Advances Budget With $3.8T Tax Overhaul
The House Budget Committee voted late Sunday to approve the chamber's budget reconciliation package, including a $3.8 trillion tax bill that would renew and make permanent large parts of the GOP's 2017 tax overhaul law.
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May 16, 2025
The Tax Angle: Year-End Extenders, IRS Direct File
From a look at the possibility of Congress passing a year-end budget and tax extenders bill to efforts to keep the IRS Direct File program afloat, here's a peek into a reporter's notebook on a few of the week's developing tax stories.
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May 16, 2025
Refocus Global Tax Policy On Bilateral Treaties, Attys Say
Global tax policymakers at the OECD and United Nations should return to their original focus of advancing bilateral tax treaties among the countries they cater toward, attorneys said Friday.
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May 16, 2025
Work Agency Loses VAT Deregistration Appeal Over Tax Fraud
An agency worker supply company has lost its latest bid to challenge a decision by the U.K. tax authority to cancel its VAT registration over its alleged links to a tax fraud scheme, as a London appeals court refused its bid on Friday.
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May 16, 2025
China Floats Developing Tax Breaks To Promote Tourism
China is hoping to develop a departure tax refund and expand the coverage of tax-refund shops in a bid to expand tourism and tourist spending as a way to "cope with external shocks," its Ministry of Commerce said Friday.
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May 16, 2025
Tax Dodging By Wealthy Larger Than Thought, UK Body Says
The scale of tax avoidance and evasion by the wealthy could be much greater than the U.K. tax authority previously thought, according to a report by the National Audit Office published Friday.
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May 16, 2025
Taxation With Representation: Blakes, Davies, Goodmans
In this week's Taxation With Representation, Charter Communications Inc. merges with Cox Communications, Hub International Ltd. boosts its valuation after securing an investment, Pan American Silver Corp. acquires Mag Silver Corp. and Robinhood buys WonderFi.
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May 16, 2025
Carbon Taxes Cut Emissions Best In Many Areas, OECD Says
Carbon taxes reduced greenhouse gas emissions from the energy sector, transportation, buildings and agriculture on average more effectively than most other climate policies in a large batch of studies reviewed by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, the group said.
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May 15, 2025
UK To Codify Extensions For Cos. That End VAT Registration
HM Revenue & Customs will have a regulatory basis to grant businesses canceling their value-added tax registration extensions for submitting their final tax return documents under a new measure, codifying a practice it routinely carries out now through administrative concession.
Expert Analysis
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Legal Ethics Considerations For Law Firm Pro Bono Deals
If a law firm enters into a pro bono deal with the Trump administration in exchange for avoiding or removing an executive order, it has an ethical obligation to create a written settlement agreement with specific terms, which would mitigate some potential conflict of interest problems, says Andrew Altschul at Buchanan Angeli.
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10 Arbitrations And A 5th Circ. Ruling Flag Arb. Clause Risks
The ongoing arbitral saga of Sullivan v. Feldman, which has engendered proceedings before 10 different arbitrators in Texas and Louisiana along with last month's Fifth Circuit opinion, showcases both the risks and limitations of arbitration clauses in retainer agreements for resolving attorney-client disputes, says Christopher Blazejewski at Sherin and Lodgen.
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The Benefits Of Aligning States On Legal Paraprofessionals
Texas' proposal to become the latest state to license paraprofessional providers of limited legal services could help firms expand their reach and improve access to justice, but consumers, attorneys and allied legal professionals would benefit even more if similar programs across the country become more uniform, says Michael Houlberg at the University of Denver.
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10 Soft Skills Every GC Should Master
As businesses face shifting regulatory and technological uncertainty, general counsel will need to strengthen certain soft skills to succeed, from admitting when they make a mistake to maintaining a healthy dose of dispassion, says Douglas Brown at Manatt.
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An Unrestrained, Bright-Eyed View Of Legal AI's Future
Todd Itami at Covington offers a bright-eyed, laughing-all-the-way, skydive look at what the legal industry could look like after an artificial intelligence revolution, which he believes may happen much sooner and more dramatically than we expect.
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Tracking The Evolution In Litigation Finance
Despite continued innovation, litigation finance remains an immature market with borrowers recieving significantly different terms as lenders learn to value cases, which firms need a strong handle on to ensure lending terms do not overwhelm collateral value, says Robert Wilkins at Lightfoot Franklin.
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E-Discovery Quarterly: The Perils Of Digital Data Protocols
Though stipulated protocols governing the treatment of electronically stored information in litigation are meant to streamline discovery, recent disputes demonstrate that certain missteps in the process can lead to significant inefficiencies, say attorneys at Sidley.
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A Cold War-Era History Lesson On Due Process
The landmark Harry Bridges case from the mid-20th century Red Scare offers important insights on why lawyers must be free of government reprisal, no matter who their client is, says Peter Afrasiabi at One LLP.
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How BigLaw Executive Orders May Affect Smaller Firms
Because of the types of cases they take on, solo practitioners, small law firms and public interest attorneys may find themselves more dramatically affected by the collective impact of recent government action involving the legal industry than even the BigLaw firms named in the executive orders, says Reuben Guttman at Guttman Buschner.
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Lawsuits Shouldn't Be Shadow Assets For Foreign Capital
Third-party litigation financing amplifies inefficiencies from litigation and facilitates national exposure to foreign influence in the U.S. justice system, so full disclosure of financing arrangements should be required as a matter of institutional integrity, says Roland Eisenhuth at the American Property Casualty Insurance Association.
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How To Accelerate Your Post-Attorney Career Transition
Professionals seeking to transition to nonattorney careers may encounter skepticism as nontraditional candidates, but there are opportunities for thought leadership and to leverage speaking and writing to accelerate a post-attorney career transition, say Janet Falk at Falk Communications and Evgeny Efremkin at Toronto Metropolitan University.
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Tariffs And FCA Create Perfect Storm For Importers
The Trump administration's aggressive tariff policies pose a high risk to certain importation practices that are particularly likely to trigger False Claims Act enforcement, say attorneys at Jeffer Mangels.
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US Reassessment Of OECD Tax Deal Is Right Move
The wholesale U.S. reevaluation of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development's global tax deal ordered by President Donald Trump is a positive step that could ultimately create a more durable international tax system, says Anne Gordon at the National Foreign Trade Council.