International
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April 18, 2025
Dutch Cancel Planned VAT Hike Amid Budget Revisions
The Netherlands is no longer planning to increase value-added taxes on sports, culture and media, the Dutch Finance Ministry announced Friday.
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April 17, 2025
Tribal Members Fight Bid To Transfer Canadian Tariff Dispute
Four members of Montana's Blackfeet Nation are fighting a motion by the federal government to transfer their bid to block several Trump administration orders and proclamations imposing tariffs on Canadian goods, arguing there's no legal basis for the move to the U.S. Court of International Trade.
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April 17, 2025
Man's Deportation Looms After Tax Evasion Plea Stands
A Connecticut federal judge denied a man's attempt to vacate his guilty plea for tax evasion, despite accepting that his lawyers had misled him into believing that if he received no prison time he could avoid mandatory detention and likely deportation by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
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April 17, 2025
IMF Predicts No Recession But Slower Growth Amid Tariffs
The International Monetary Fund is predicting slower global growth but no recession even with costly uncertainty around U.S. tariff rates reaching levels last seen more than 100 years ago, the fund's managing director said Thursday at its annual spring meeting.
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April 17, 2025
Ex-Pandora Boss Sues Trustee Over £3.3M Tax Bill
The former president of jewelry giant Pandora has sued a tax adviser for allegedly mismanaging his retirement trust and negligently exposing him and the company to significant liabilities and financial loss tied to a €2.2 million ($2.5 million) French property deal.
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April 16, 2025
Tax Court Says Hedge Fund Basket Options Abused Tax Perks
A Connecticut-based hedge fund has engaged in a complex stock-selling strategy using option contracts that the Internal Revenue Service had determined to be an abusive scheme to avoid paying high taxes on the capital gains, the U.S. Tax Court said Wednesday.
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April 16, 2025
DC Judge Considers Bid To Block IRS Info Sharing With ICE
A D.C. federal judge on Wednesday questioned whether immigrant advocacy groups have standing to block a tax information-sharing agreement between the IRS and immigration enforcement agencies, but she also outlined concerns that the agreement could be abused.
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April 16, 2025
Lithuania Considering €249M Corporate, Property Tax Hike
Lithuania is considering numerous tax proposals that would generate an additional €248.7 million ($283.4 million) in 2026 for the state and municipal budgets, including increases to its corporate tax rate and a property tax overhaul suggested by the OECD, its finance ministry said Wednesday.
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April 16, 2025
Canada Automakers Can Avoid Country's Tariffs On US Cars
Automakers in Canada won't have to pay the country's retaliatory tariffs on certain U.S. cars as long as they continue to manufacture vehicles in Canada and complete planned investments there, one of a trio of relief measures announced by the Department of Finance.
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April 16, 2025
UAE Updates Min. Tax Guidance To Align With OECD
The United Arab Emirates' finance ministry adopted guidance from the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development to keep the country's implementation of the global corporate minimum tax in line with international standards, the country's official news agency said Wednesday.
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April 16, 2025
China Says Malaysia Willing To Expand Bilateral Trade
Malaysia's government said it's willing to expand bilateral trade with China during Chinese President Xi Jinping's visit to the country Wednesday, one day after Xi inked a strategic partnership agreement with Vietnam that includes growing trade, according to Chinese government news releases.
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April 16, 2025
China's Long-Term Prospects Unfazed By Tariffs, Official Says
China's long-term prospects are unfazed by U.S. tariffs because of its industrial resilience, diversified trade and shift toward domestic consumption, a Chinese government official said Wednesday as the country posted 5.4% year-on-year growth in gross domestic product during the first quarter of 2025.
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April 16, 2025
Hunter Biden Tax Probe Critic Named Acting IRS Chief
An Internal Revenue Service special agent who accused the U.S. Department of Justice of misconduct in an investigation of former President Joe Biden's son Hunter has been named the acting IRS commissioner, a U.S. Treasury Department spokesperson confirmed Wednesday.
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April 15, 2025
7 Arrested In France In €3.4M Cross-Border VAT Fraud Case
The European Public Prosecutor's Office arrested seven people suspected of carrying out a value-added tax fraud scheme involving what it called valuable vehicles that resulted in at least €3.4 million ($3.8 million) in tax losses, the EPPO said Tuesday.
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April 15, 2025
Trump's Tariff Reprieves Buy Lawyers Time To Strategize
President Donald Trump's expanded tariff exclusion for electronic goods from China and the pause on higher rates for all countries except China gives lawyers an opportunity to seek mitigation solutions for importers, but the moves do little to create long-term business certainty.
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April 15, 2025
NY Manufacturers Highly Gloomy Amid Tariffs, Fed Says
New York manufacturers in early April became pessimistic about general business conditions over the next six months to an extent rarely matched in the history of a monthly survey by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, coinciding with the imposition of tariffs, the bank reported Tuesday.
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April 15, 2025
Hong Kong, Armenia Double-Tax Agreement Enters Into Force
A treaty to avoid double taxation between Hong Kong and Armenia has gone into force after being approved by both jurisdictions' legislatures, Hong Kong's Inland Revenue Department said Tuesday.
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April 15, 2025
Treasury Should Scrap Cloud Computing Rules, NFTC Says
The U.S. Treasury Department should withdraw proposed regulations for determining the source of income from cloud computing, according to the National Foreign Trade Council, which contended the rules add significant complexity to digital transactions.
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April 15, 2025
Sweden Wants EU-Style, Country-Level E-Invoicing Of VAT
The Swedish Tax Agency wants countries to adopt electronic invoicing of VAT at the national level to complement the EU requiring it for cross-border transactions, the agency said, arguing it would prevent a large amount of fraud.
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April 15, 2025
EU Still Open To Zero-Tariff US Deal, Trade Chief Says
The European Union remains open to a trade deal with the United States to reach zero tariffs on all goods between the country and the trade bloc, the EU trade commissioner said.
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April 14, 2025
IRS-ICE Info Pact Lacks Needed Safeguards, Experts Say
The IRS recently agreed to share confidential tax return data with immigration enforcement agencies for criminal proceedings, saying the agreement complied with privacy laws, but tax and privacy experts said they had concerns that the deal was vague and lacked safeguards to ensure the information is lawfully used.
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April 14, 2025
The Tax Angle: TCJA Lobbying, IRS Staff Cuts
From a look at a report on corporate tax lobbyists working to renew the 2017 tax law to another assessing the impact of IRS budget cuts and staff reductions on audit activity, here's a peek into a reporter's notebook on a few of the week's developing tax stories.
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April 14, 2025
US Cuts Tariffs On Chinese Electronics But Vows New Levies
The U.S. scaled back tariffs on Chinese semiconductors and related products like computers and smartphones, but Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said those goods and pharmaceuticals would face sector-specific tariffs in one to two months.
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April 14, 2025
Treasury, DOGE Scrap 9 IRS Guidance Docs As Unnecessary
The White House's Department of Government Efficiency cut nine IRS guidance documents Monday that it said were unnecessary because they were obsolete, outdated or covered by other rules and regulations, including one related to a topic addressed by the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act.
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April 14, 2025
Dutch, Germans Look To Update Remote Worker Tax Rules
The Netherlands and Germany are looking to update their tax treaty to allow cross-border employees to work from home for a certain amount of time before their home country can levy income taxes, the Dutch government said Monday.
Expert Analysis
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The Case For Post-Bar Clerk Training Programs At Law Firms
In today's competitive legal hiring market, an intentionally designed training program for law school graduates awaiting bar admission can be an effective way of creating a pipeline of qualified candidates, says Brent Daub at Gilson Daub.
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AI Can Help Lawyers Overcome The Programming Barrier
Legal professionals without programming expertise can use generative artificial intelligence to harness the power of automation and other technology solutions to streamline their work, without the steep learning curve traditionally associated with coding, says George Zalepa at Greenberg Traurig.
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Preparing Law Students For A New, AI-Assisted Legal World
As artificial intelligence rapidly transforms the legal landscape, law schools must integrate technology and curricula that address AI’s innate challenges — from ethics to data security — to help students stay ahead of the curve, say Daniel Garrie at Law & Forensics, Ryan Abbott at JAMS and Karen Silverman at Cantellus Group.
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General Counsel Need Data Literacy To Keep Up With AI
With the rise of accessible and powerful generative artificial intelligence solutions, it is imperative for general counsel to understand the use and application of data for myriad important activities, from evaluating the e-discovery process to monitoring compliance analytics and more, says Colin Levy at Malbek.
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Navigating Discovery Of Generative AI Information
As generative artificial intelligence tools become increasingly ubiquitous, companies must make sure to preserve generative AI data when there is reasonable expectation of litigation, and to include transcripts in litigation hold notices, as they may be relevant to discovery requests, say Nick Peterson and Corey Hauser at Wiley.
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Finding Focus: Strategies For Attorneys With ADHD
Given the prevalence of ADHD among attorneys, it is imperative that the legal community gain a better understanding of how ADHD affects well-being, and that resources and strategies exist for attorneys with this disability to manage their symptoms and achieve success, say Casey Dixon at Dixon Life Coaching and Krista Larson at Stinson.
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Attorneys, Law Schools Must Adapt To New Era Of Evidence
Technological advancements mean more direct evidence is being created than ever before, and attorneys as well as law schools must modify their methods to account for new challenges in how this evidence is collected and used to try cases, says Reuben Guttman at Guttman Buschner.
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1st Tax Easement Convictions Will Likely Embolden DOJ, IRS
After recent convictions in the first criminal tax fraud trial over allegedly abusive syndicated conservation easements, the IRS and U.S. Department of Justice will likely pursue other promoters for similar alleged conspiracies — though one acquittal may help attorneys better evaluate their clients' exposure, say Bill Curtis and Lauren DeSantis-Then at Polsinelli.
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Tips For Litigating Against Pro Se Parties In Complex Disputes
Litigating against self-represented parties in complex cases can pose unique challenges for attorneys, but for the most part, it requires the same skills that are useful in other cases — from documenting everything to understanding one’s ethical duties, says Bryan Ketroser at Alto Litigation.
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Anticipating Intensified Partnership Enforcement From IRS
The Internal Revenue Service's decadeslong difficulties with partnership audits led to the recent announcement of a clear, well-funded, focused initiative, and businesses operating in the partnership form will feel the impact, with definite changes ahead, says Sharon Katz-Pearlman at Greenberg Traurig.
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Pro Bono Work Is Powerful Self-Help For Attorneys
Oct. 22-28 is Pro Bono Week, serving as a useful reminder that offering free legal help to the public can help attorneys expand their legal toolbox, forge community relationships and create human connections, despite the challenges of this kind of work, says Orlando Lopez at Culhane Meadows.
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The Pop Culture Docket: Judge Espinosa On 'Lincoln Lawyer'
The murder trials in Netflix’s “The Lincoln Lawyer” illustrate the stark contrast between the ethical high ground that fosters and maintains the criminal justice system's integrity, and the ethical abyss that can undermine it, with an important reminder for all legal practitioners, say Judge Adam Espinosa and Andrew Howard at the Colorado 2nd Judicial District Court.
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How And Why Your Firm Should Implement Fixed-Fee Billing
Amid rising burnout in the legal industry and client efforts to curtail spending, pivoting to a fixed-fee billing model may improve client-attorney relationships and offer lawyers financial, logistical and stress relief — while still maintaining profit margins, say Kevin Henderson and Eric Pacifici at SMB Law Group.