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  • 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.

  • May 02, 2025

    Community Groups Accept Pause In CTA Litigation

    A group of community associations has told the Fourth Circuit they aren't opposed to a government motion to pause litigation over the Corporate Transparency Act, even as they maintained the information disclosure law aimed at small businesses still carries constitutional flaws.

  • May 02, 2025

    Weekly Internal Revenue Bulletin

    The Internal Revenue Service's weekly bulletin, issued Friday, included its announcement of plans to revoke partnership basis-shifting regulations that were finalized earlier this year.

Expert Analysis

  • Mentorship Resolutions For The New Year

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    Attorneys tend to focus on personal achievements or career milestones when they set yearly goals, but one important area often gets overlooked in this process — mentoring relationships, which are some of the most effective tools for professional growth, say Kelly Galligan at Rutan & Tucker and Andra Greene at Phillips ADR.

  • Coaching Little League Makes Me A Better Lawyer

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    While coaching poorly played Little League Baseball early in the morning doesn't sound like a good time, I love it — and the experience has taught me valuable lessons about imperfection, compassion and acceptance that have helped me grow as a person and as a lawyer, says Alex Barnett at DiCello Levitt.

  • 5 Litigation Funding Trends To Note In 2025

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    Lawyers and their clients must be prepared to navigate an evolving litigation funding market in 2025, made more complicated by a new administration and the increasing overall cost of litigation, says Jeffery Lula at GLS Capital.

  • Rethinking Litigation Risk And What It Really Means To Win

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    Attorneys have a tendency to overestimate litigation risk before summary judgment and underestimate risk after it, but an eight-stage litigation framework can clarify risk at different points and help litigators reassess what true success looks like in any particular case, says Joshua Libling at Arcadia Finance.

  • Small Biz Caught In Corporate Transparency Act Crossfire

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    Despite compliance being put on hold due to a nationwide preliminary injunction, small businesses have been caught in the middle of the legal battle over the Corporate Transparency Act — and confusion over the law's requirements could result in major penalties, say attorneys at Snell & Wilmer.

  • No, Litigation Funders Are Not 'Fleeing' The District Of Del.

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    A recent study claimed that litigation funders have “fled” Delaware federal court due to a standing order requiring disclosure of third-party financing, but responsible funders have no problem litigating in this jurisdiction, and many other factors could explain the decline in filings, say Will Freeman and Sarah Tsou at Omni Bridgeway.

  • Hydrogen Regs Will Provide More Certainty — If They Survive

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    Newly finalized regulations implementing the Section 45V clean hydrogen tax credit allow producers more flexibility, and should therefore help put the industry on more solid footing — but the incoming Trump administration and Republican Congress will have multiple options for overturning or altering the regulations, say attorneys at Steptoe.

  • 5 E-Discovery Predictions For 2025 And Beyond

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    In the year to come, e-discovery will be shaped by new and emerging trends, from the adoption of artificial intelligence provisions in protective orders, to the proliferation of emojis as a source of evidence in contemporary litigation, say attorneys at Littler.

  • What's Ahead As Transparency Act Comes To A Crossroads

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    Synthesizing the contrasting federal district and appellate court rulings on the Corporate Transparency Act’s validity reveals several main areas of debate that will likely remain at issue as challenges to the law continue winding through the courts, say attorneys at Farella Braun.

  • Final Hydrogen Tax Credit Regs Add Flexibility For Producers

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    The recently released final regulations implementing the Inflation Reduction Act's clean hydrogen production tax credit offer taxpayers greater flexibility, reducing risk and creating more certainty for investments in the industry, thus diminishing — but not eliminating — the risk of legal challenges to the regulations, say attorneys at Steptoe.

  • 5 Evolving Concerns For Family Offices In 2025

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    Complex regulatory changes and emerging operational risks will force family offices to stay on their toes in 2025, with timely action particularly necessary to address several tax and reporting developments that may affect their investments and business operations, say attorneys at Morgan Lewis.

  • 7 Ways 2nd Trump Administration May Affect Partner Hiring

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    President-elect Donald Trump's return to the White House will likely have a number of downstream effects on partner hiring in the legal industry, from accelerated hiring timelines to increased vetting of prospective employees, say recruiters at Macrae.

  • E-Discovery Quarterly: Rulings On Custodian Selection

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    Several recent rulings make clear that the proportionality of additional proposed custodians will depend on whether the custodians have unique relevant documents, and producing parties should consider whether information already in the record will show that they have relevant documents that otherwise might not be produced, say attorneys at Sidley.

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