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  • May 06, 2025

    Military Moving-Cost Deduction Nixed For Civilian Contractor

    A civilian contractor for the U.S. Air Force cannot deduct her moving expenses because she is not considered a member of the military for purposes of the deduction, the U.S. Tax Court said in a bench opinion released Tuesday.

  • May 06, 2025

    Actor Voight, Film Biz Adviser To Trump, Floats Tax Incentives

    Actor Jon Voight, whom President Donald Trump tapped as an adviser on the Hollywood film industry, told Trump that tax incentives, international treaties and limited tariffs could revitalize production, while California Gov. Gavin Newsom separately floated a $7.5 billion federal film tax credit, according to statements shared Tuesday with Law360.

  • May 06, 2025

    Stationery Co. Fights Bid To Move Tariff Case To Trade Court

    The U.S. Court of International Trade does not have exclusive jurisdiction to hear disputes over President Donald Trump's global tariffs, a stationery company told a Florida federal court Monday in opposing the administration's bid to transfer to the suit.

  • May 06, 2025

    IRS Narrows Benefit Plan Sponsors Subject To New Rules

    The Internal Revenue Service on Tuesday narrowed the group of defined benefit plan sponsors that will be subject to certain requirements related to agency approval to use mortality tables that start in January.

  • May 06, 2025

    Bessent Eyes IRS' Technology Budget For Major Cuts

    The Internal Revenue Service must cut its bloated technology budget and decrease the agency's overall spending, U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent told a House Appropriations panel Tuesday.

  • May 06, 2025

    Eversheds Sutherland Brings On EY Tax Pro In Atlanta

    Eversheds Sutherland has added a former EY senior manager of international tax and transaction services to its Atlanta office, further strengthening its tax practice after adding a dozen tax controversy attorneys from Chamberlain Hrdlicka White Williams & Aughtry PC in March, the firm announced Tuesday.

  • May 06, 2025

    4th Circ. Seems Split On BofA's Post-Merger Tax Offset Claims

    The Fourth Circuit seemed split Tuesday on whether Bank of America should be able to use its tax overpayments to offset interest on tax underpayments by companies that merged into it, with one judge pressing the government to respond to what he described as the bank's "common sense" argument in the $163 million case.

  • May 05, 2025

    Credit Suisse To Pay Feds $510.6M For Helping Hide Assets

    Credit Suisse Services AG has agreed to shell out more than $510 million under agreements with federal prosecutors in which the company admitted to helping customers hide more than $4 billion from the IRS in hundreds of offshore accounts, the U.S. Department of Justice announced Monday.

  • May 05, 2025

    Feds Say Calif. Tribe's Challenge To Cig Ruling Is 'Fruitless'

    The federal government is urging a California federal court not to pause a ruling affirming the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives' decision to place a native tribe on a noncompliance list over cigarette sales, saying the tribe shouldn't be able to upend the status quo as it pursues a "fruitless" appeal to the Ninth Circuit.

  • May 05, 2025

    Trump Seeks 100% Tariff On Foreign-Made Movies

    President Donald Trump asked his administration to place a 100% tariff on foreign-made movies, with a spokesperson telling Law360 on Monday that a final decision on the plan hadn't been made.

  • May 05, 2025

    Minn. Tribe Looks To Weigh In On 3,000-Acre Land Trust Row

    The Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe has asked a Minnesota federal judge to let it file a friend of the court brief in a county's case claiming the U.S. government wrongly accepted more than 3,000 acres of land into trust for the tribe.

  • May 05, 2025

    Trump Admin Defends Tariff Power In Toy-Makers' Challenge

    President Donald Trump's administration urged a D.C. federal court to deny a request by toy companies to halt global tariffs, arguing the government is authorized to impose trade measures under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act.

  • May 05, 2025

    IRS Audit Staff Slashed From Layoffs, Voluntary Resignations

    Layoffs and voluntary resignations at the Internal Revenue Service have significantly reduced the agency's revenue agents responsible for conducting audits, the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration said Monday.

  • May 05, 2025

    Tax Evader Can't Fight Related Taxes, Court Says

    A South Dakota business owner who admitted to hiding income from the Internal Revenue Service cannot challenge the $120,000 the agency claims he owes in additional taxes for fraudulently failing to file returns, the U.S. Tax Court ruled Monday.

  • May 05, 2025

    Clifford Chance Adds Paul Weiss Exec Compensation Atty In NY

    Clifford Chance LLP has added a Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison LLP transactional attorney in New York as co-chair of its U.S. executive compensation practice, the firm announced Monday.

  • May 05, 2025

    Tax Court Tosses Grandmother's Levy Challenge

    The U.S. Tax Court tossed Monday a levy challenge by an Alabama woman who said she was the sole caregiver for her five grandchildren, ruling that she had already received the tax relief she sought when the IRS decided not to collect her overdue taxes.

  • May 05, 2025

    Co. Urges Ending IRS Cost-Sharing Rule After Justices' Ruling

    A controversial rule requiring U.S. companies to include employee stock-based compensation in cost-sharing agreements with offshore affiliates should be scrapped following the U.S. Supreme Court's revocation of required judicial deference to agencies, a drug distributor told a Texas federal court in seeking a nearly $10 million tax refund.

  • May 05, 2025

    Novelist Owes $715K In FBAR Penalties, US Says

    A Japanese author with U.S. citizenship faces penalties exceeding $715,000 for failing to report accounts she held at a Swiss bank, the U.S. government told a California federal court.

  • May 02, 2025

    Tax Case Can Proceed Despite Late Name Change, Court Says

    The owner of a mail-order medical equipment company can move forward with his lawsuit against the federal government seeking to deduct a $5 million settlement payment, even though he didn't technically add his name to the case until after the deadline, the Court of Federal Claims said.

  • May 02, 2025

    Money Laundering, Tax Charges Nixed Vs. Crypto Operator

    An Indiana federal judge dismissed the U.S. government's cases against a man accused of operating an unlicensed money transmitting business, laundering proceeds through cryptocurrency transactions and failing to file tax returns after finding his business was not subject to registration requirements, as the government had maintained.

  • May 02, 2025

    Nixon Peabody Appoints Finance, Tax Partner As DC Leader

    Nixon Peabody LLP has appointed a more than 20-year veteran of the firm as its Washington, D.C., office managing partner, who focuses his practice on a range of corporate, finance and real estate matters, according to a Thursday announcement.

  • May 02, 2025

    Groups Seek Order Halting Trump's Restructuring Of Gov't

    A California district court must stop federal agencies from moving ahead with President Donald Trump's directive to reorganize and terminate government workers, unions and other groups argued, calling for a temporary restraining order based on alleged harms from the administration's "radical restructuring."

  • May 02, 2025

    White House Budget Seeks $2.5B Cut From IRS Funding

    The Internal Revenue Service's budget would be cut by nearly $2.5 billion compared with 2025 under the 2026 budget request released Friday by President Donald Trump's administration.

  • May 02, 2025

    IRS Updates Rates For Foreign Insurance Company Equations

    The Internal Revenue Service on Friday published updated domestic asset/liability and yields percentages for 2024 that foreign life insurance companies and foreign property and liability insurance companies need to compute their minimum effectively connected net investment income.

  • May 02, 2025

    Taxation With Representation: Goodwin, Haynes Boone

    In this week's Taxation With Representation, Merck buys SpringWorks Therapeutics, Novartis AG acquires Regulus Therapeutics Inc., Sabre Corp. sells its Hospitality Solutions business to private equity shop TPG, and TWG Global and Mubadala Capital team up to bolster their investments.

Expert Analysis

  • Impact Of Corporate Transparency Act Ambiguity On Banks

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    Even though banks generally needn't file beneficial ownership information reports, financial institutions must continue to monitor the status of the Corporate Transparency Act and understand its requirements in case the nationwide injunction that was issued against the CTA earlier this month is overturned, say attorneys at Armstrong Teasdale.

  • 6 Changes I Would Make If I Ran A Law School

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    Reuben Guttman at Guttman Buschner identifies several key issues plaguing law schools and discusses potential solutions, such as opting out of the rankings game and mandating courses in basic writing skills.

  • Firms Still Have The Edge In Lateral Hiring, But Buyer Beware

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    Partner mobility data suggests that the third quarter of this year continued to be a buyer’s market, with the average candidate demanding less compensation for a larger book of business — but moving into the fourth quarter, firms should slow down their hiring process to minimize risks, say officers at Decipher Investigative Intelligence.

  • Congress Should Expand Investment Options For 403(b)s

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    Lawmakers should pass pending legislation to give 403(b) plan participants access to collective investment trusts, leveling the playing field for public sector retirement investors by giving them an investment option their private sector counterparts have had for decades, says Jason Levy at Great Gray Trust Company.

  • Think Like A Lawyer: 1 Type Of Case Complexity Stands Out

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    In contrast to some cases that appear complex due to voluminous evidence or esoteric subject matter, a different kind of complexity involves tangled legal and factual questions, each with a range of possible outcomes, which require a “sliding scale” approach instead of syllogistic reasoning, says Luke Andrews at Poole Huffman.

  • Think Like A Lawyer: Note 3 Simple Types Of Legal Complexity

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    Cases can appear complex for several reasons — due to the number of issues, the volume of factual and evidentiary sources, and the sophistication of those sources — but the same basic technique can help lawyers tame their arguments into a simple and persuasive message, says Luke Andrews at Poole Huffman.

  • Gardening Makes Me A Better Lawyer

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    Beyond its practical and therapeutic benefits, gardening has bolstered important attributes that also apply to my litigation practice, including persistence, patience, grit and authenticity, says Christopher Viceconte at Gibbons.

  • Litigation Inspiration: Reframing Document Review

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    For attorneys — new ones especially — there is much fulfillment to find in document review by reflecting on how important, interesting and pleasant it can be, says Bennett Rawicki at Hilgers Graben.

  • Rank-And-File DOJ Attorneys Will Keep Calm And Carry On

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    Career prosecutors at the U.S. Department of Justice often pride themselves on their ability to remain apolitical in order to ensure consistency and keep the department’s mission afloat, and the incoming Trump administration is unlikely to upend this tradition, says Michael Landman at Bird Marella.

  • What Higher Education Can Expect From A 2nd Trump Admin

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    The election of Donald Trump for a second presidential term has far-reaching ramifications for colleges and universities — come January, institutions can expect a crackdown on DEI, increased scrutiny of campus protests, a rollback of the Biden administration's Title IX rules and more, say attorneys at Jenner & Block.

  • 3 Ways To Train Junior Lawyers In 30 Minutes Or Less

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    Today’s junior lawyers are experiencing a skills gap due to pandemic-era disruptions, but firms can help bring them up to speed by offering high-impact skill building content in bite-sized, interactive training sessions, say Stacey Schwartz at Katten, Diane Costigan at Winston & Strawn and Lauren Tierney at Freshfields.

  • Expect Surging Oil And Gas Industry Under New Trump Admin

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    Throughout his recent campaign, President-elect Donald Trump promised increased oil and natural gas production and reduced reliance on renewables — and his administration will likely bring more oil and gas dealmaking, faster federal permitting and attempts to roll back incentives for green energy, say attorneys at Sidley.

  • The Bar Needs More Clarity On The Discovery Objection Rule

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    Almost 10 years after Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 34 was amended, attorneys still seem confused about what they should include in objections to discovery requests, and until the rules committee provides additional clarity, practitioners must beware the steep costs of noncompliance, says Tristan Ellis at Shanies Law Office.

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