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  • April 21, 2025

    Former Ohio Atty Gets Prison Over Unpaid Payroll Taxes

    A former Ohio attorney who admitted that he failed to pay $750,000 in payroll taxes while managing his wife's dental practice has been sentenced to six months in prison after telling a federal judge that he did not intend to steal from the government, according to an order signed Monday.

  • April 21, 2025

    Eateries Owner Gets 3 Years For Tax, COVID Fraud

    A restaurant owner who committed tax crimes and illegally collected more than $1.7 million in pandemic relief money was sentenced to more than three years in prison by a California federal judge, a fraction of the sentence urged by prosecutors who pointed to millions in cash hidden in his bedroom.

  • April 21, 2025

    Ex-Atty Can't Duck Depo In $1.8M FBAR Case, NY Judge Says

    A retired attorney cannot avoid testifying about the mental state of a former client whose estate faces $1.8 million in penalties for an undisclosed Swiss bank account, a New York federal court ruled, holding that the information is not privileged.

  • April 21, 2025

    Weekly Internal Revenue Bulletin

    The Internal Revenue Service's latest weekly bulletin, dated Monday, included its joint call with the U.S. Treasury Department for recommendations for its 2025-26 priority guidance plan.

  • April 19, 2025

    Up Next At High Court: Preventive Healthcare, LGBTQ Books

    The U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments in five cases this week, including disputes over the constitutionality of a task force that sets preventive healthcare coverage requirements, a school district's introduction of LGBTQ-themed storybooks and whether parties can establish standing based on harms affecting third parties. 

  • April 18, 2025

    Ex-Mass. Transit Worker Gets 6 Years For Fraud, Tax Evasion

    A former assistant chief engineer for the Boston commuter rail system was sentenced to nearly six years in prison for crimes including failing to withhold and pay federal taxes on income from two illegal schemes, prosecutors said Friday.

  • April 18, 2025

    Trump Ousts New IRS Acting Chief Days After Appointment

    The White House said Friday that President Donald Trump will appoint the U.S. Treasury Department's deputy secretary to be the acting IRS commissioner to replace a former special agent who was appointed to the role days before.

  • April 18, 2025

    Swiss-Italian Man Seeks To Block IRS Getting Data From Apple

    A Swiss-Italian man is seeking to quash an IRS summons on Apple Inc. to produce records linked to his account as part of a probe into his Swiss income tax liabilities, according to a petition filed in California federal court.

  • April 18, 2025

    Taxation With Representation: Davis Polk, Simpson Thacher

    In this week's Taxation With Representation, Global Payments Inc. buys Worldpay from GTCR and FIS, Intel Corp. sells a stake in its Altera business to Silver Lake, KKR acquires OSTTRA from S&P Global and CME Group, and Canada's Capital Power Corp. nabs two U.S. natural gas power plants.

  • April 18, 2025

    IRS Outlines Plan To Advance Whistleblower Program

    The Internal Revenue Service released an operating plan for its whistleblower program Friday, saying it aims to enhance the claim submission process, safeguard whistleblower information and keep whistleblowers informed on the status of their claims.

  • April 17, 2025

    IRS Plans To End Partnership Basis-Shifting Regs

    The Internal Revenue Service said Thursday it plans to revoke partnership basis-shifting regulations, which were finalized in early January to compel businesses engaged in such potentially abusive tax avoidance strategies to report them under the threat of penalty.

  • April 17, 2025

    Tax Court Upholds IRS Collection Actions Against Couple

    The U.S. Tax Court upheld Thursday the Internal Revenue Service's proposed collection actions against a couple, saying that an agency settlement officer did not abuse her discretion in sustaining a lien.

  • 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.

  • April 17, 2025

    Harvard Says No Grounds For IRS To Deny Tax-Exempt Status

    Harvard University said Thursday that there is no legal basis to rescind its tax-exempt status amid an investigation by President Donald Trump's administration into whether the university has violated the terms of that status.

  • April 17, 2025

    Tax Court Denies Horse Breeders' Claimed Losses

    A Louisiana couple who bred, boarded and trained horses were correctly denied $867,000 in loss deductions over six years, the U.S. Tax Court said Thursday, because their activities weren't done for profit.

  • April 17, 2025

    Judge Refuses To Recuse Himself In Ga. Defamation Case

    A Georgia federal judge on Thursday refused to disqualify himself from presiding over a defamation case arising from a family dispute related to a tax preparation business, while also rejecting a bid to transfer the matter to a federal court in California.

  • 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.

  • April 16, 2025

    Plans To Shelve IRS Direct File Draw Democrats' Ire

    The Trump administration's decision to shutter the Internal Revenue Service's Direct File pilot program was criticized heavily by congressional Democrats, who argued on Wednesday that the program was remarkably successful.

  • April 16, 2025

    Union Denied More Time In Feds' Bid To Bless CBA Rebuke

    A Kentucky federal judge has refused to delay an approaching hearing on the U.S. Department of the Treasury's bid to nullify its workers' union contracts, despite a union's assertion that it's been given little time to prepare for a consequential case and that it has yet to be served.

  • 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.

  • April 16, 2025

    Cannabis Co. Drops Back Taxes Case Against 2 Payroll Firms

    A Washington cannabis company has dropped claims against a pair of payroll services providers accused of leaving the cannabis company with a $172,500 tax bill after failing to pay the Internal Revenue Service on its behalf.

  • April 16, 2025

    IRS Owes Worker A Refund On 401(k) Loan, Suit Says

    The IRS is refusing to send money back to a worker who said a paid-off 401(k) loan was mistakenly counted as income in his tax return, according to a suit filed in Missouri federal court.

  • April 16, 2025

    IRS Publishes 2025 Average Residence Purchase Price Data

    The Internal Revenue Service published data Wednesday on the average purchase price for U.S. residences in different areas, which is used to determine whether bond interest can be excluded from gross income.

  • April 16, 2025

    3rd Circ. Affirms 51 Months For False Tax Return Filings

    The Third Circuit affirmed Wednesday a 51-month sentence of a woman who embezzled more than $1.6 million from her employer and pled guilty to wire fraud and filing false tax returns, rejecting her claim that the U.S. government breached her plea agreement.

  • 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.

Expert Analysis

  • The Trade And Tax Issues Behind US-Canada Digital Tax Clash

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    The new Canadian digital services tax recently went into effect despite objections from the U.S., a controversy that represents an unusual mix of trade and tax policy, and many companies have been pondering how it will affect their e-commerce businesses, says Damon Pike at BDO.

  • Litigation Inspiration: Honoring Your Learned Profession

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    About 30,000 people who took the bar exam in July will learn they passed this fall, marking a fitting time for all attorneys to remember that they are members in a specialty club of learned professionals — and the more they can keep this in mind, the more benefits they will see, says Bennett Rawicki at Hilgers Graben.

  • AI May Limit Key Learning Opportunities For Young Attorneys

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    The thing that’s so powerful about artificial intelligence is also what’s most scary about it — its ability to detect patterns may curtail young attorneys’ chance to practice the lower-level work of managing cases, preventing them from ever honing the pattern recognition skills that undergird creative lawyering, says Sarah Murray at Trialcraft.

  • A Look At How De Minimis Import Rules May Soon Change

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    The planned implementation of executive actions focused on the de minimis rule as it applies to shipments means companies should use this interval to evaluate the potential applicability and impact of Section 301, Section 201 or Section 232 duties on their products, say attorneys at Holland & Knight.

  • Ruling On Foreign Dividend Break Offers 2 Tax Court Insights

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    In Varian v. Commissioner, the U.S. Tax Court allowed a taxpayer's deduction for dividends from foreign subsidiaries, providing clarity on how the U.S. Supreme Court’s Loper Bright decision may affect challenges to Treasury regulations, and revealing a potential disallowance of foreign tax credits, say attorneys at Davis Polk.

  • Why Now Is The Time For Law Firms To Hire Lateral Partners

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    Partner and associate mobility data from the second quarter of this year suggest that there's never been a better time in recent years for law firms to hire lateral candidates, particularly experienced partners — though this necessitates an understanding of potential red flags, say Julie Henson and Greg Hamman at Decipher Investigative Intelligence.

  • Considering Possible PR Risks Of Certain Legal Tactics

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    Disney and American Airlines recently abandoned certain litigation tactics in two lawsuits after fierce public backlash, illustrating why corporate counsel should consider the reputational implications of any legal strategy and partner with their communications teams to preempt public relations concerns, says Chris Gidez at G7 Reputation Advisory.

  • It's No Longer Enough For Firms To Be Trusted Advisers

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    Amid fierce competition for business, the transactional “trusted adviser” paradigm from which most firms operate is no longer sufficient — they should instead aim to become trusted partners with their most valuable clients, says Stuart Maister at Strategic Narrative.

  • Avoid Getting Burned By Agencies' Solar Financing Spotlight

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    Recently coordinated reports and advisories from the U.S. Department of the Treasury, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and the Federal Trade Commission maximize the spotlight on the consumer solar financing market and highlight pitfalls for lenders to avoid in this burgeoning field, says Mercedes Tunstall at Cadwalader.

  • Tax Traps In Acquisitions Of Financially Distressed Targets

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    Parties to the acquisition of an insolvent or bankrupt company face myriad tax considerations, including limitations on using the distressed company's tax benefits, cancellation of indebtedness income, tax lien issues and potential tax reorganizations.

  • Navigating A Potpourri Of Possible Transparency Act Pitfalls

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    Despite the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network's continued release of guidance for complying with the Corporate Transparency Act, its interpretation remains in flux, making it important for companies to understand potentially problematic areas of ambiguity in the practical application of the law, say attorneys at Sidley.

  • How Methods Are Evolving In Textualist Interpretations

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    Textualists at the U.S. Supreme Court are increasingly considering new methods such as corpus linguistics and surveys to evaluate what a statute's text communicates to an ordinary reader, while lower courts even mull large language models like ChatGPT as supplements, says Kevin Tobia at Georgetown Law.

  • Why Attorneys Should Consider Community Leadership Roles

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    Volunteering and nonprofit board service are complementary to, but distinct from, traditional pro bono work, and taking on these community leadership roles can produce dividends for lawyers, their firms and the nonprofit causes they support, says Katie Beacham at Kilpatrick.

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