International
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April 10, 2025
Senate Bill Would End Declared Emergency Behind Tariffs
A bill introduced Thursday in the Senate would end the national emergency declared by President Donald Trump to underpin the global tariff regime he unveiled last week, with Sens. Rand Paul, R-Ky., Ron Wyden, D-Ore., and Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., among the sponsors.
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April 10, 2025
Trump's Int'l Trade Pick Says Tech Deals Sought In Tariff Talks
President Donald Trump could look to prioritize and coordinate tech investments with countries approaching the U.S. to strike a deal to avoid higher tariff rates currently suspended, Trump's pick to lead international trade at the U.S. Department of Commerce said Thursday.
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April 10, 2025
IRS-ICE Deal Could Cost $25B In Tax Revenue, Report Says
The Internal Revenue Service's agreement to share the taxpayer records of certain non-U.S. citizens with immigration enforcement authorities could lead to a $25 billion loss in tax revenue in 2026, according to research from Yale University.
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April 10, 2025
Sullivan & Worcester Hires Fried Frank REIT Tax Pro
Sullivan & Worcester LLP announced Thursday that it has hired a Fried Frank Harris Shriver & Jacobson LLP partner, noting that the attorney comes to the firm with deep real estate investment trust tax expertise.
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April 10, 2025
Dechert Tax Pro Jumps To Whiteford In NY
Whiteford Taylor & Preston LLC has added an experienced transactional tax attorney from Dechert LLP as a partner to its practice in New York, the firm announced.
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April 10, 2025
Germany Forms New Gov't With Plans To Cut Corporate Taxes
German political parties the Christian Democrats and the Social Democrats reached a coalition government agreement, including terms for corporate tax cuts and support for the global minimum corporate tax rate.
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April 10, 2025
EU, UAE Begin Talks On Free Trade Deal For Goods, Services
The European Union and United Arab Emirates have started negotiations on a free trade agreement focused on liberalizing trade in goods, services and cross-border investment, the European Commission said.
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April 10, 2025
Vietnam, US Begin Trade Deal Negotiations, Hanoi Says
Vietnam and the United States have started negotiations on a trade deal after the Vietnamese government said it was prepared to eliminate all tariffs on U.S. goods, Hanoi said Thursday.
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April 10, 2025
EU Delays Tariffs After Trump's 90-Day Hold
The European Union will delay tariffs on U.S. goods following President Donald Trump's decision to hold off on imposing them on European goods for 90 days, the president of the European Commission said Thursday.
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April 10, 2025
Norway Moves Toward Allowing Cities To Charge Tourism Tax
Norwegian municipalities would be allowed to introduce a 3% tax on all forms of paid accommodations, including rental services such as Airbnb, under a draft proposal Thursday that would establish what the government called a visitor contribution.
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April 09, 2025
Trump Halts Reciprocal Tariffs For 90 Days, Ups China Rates
President Donald Trump has ordered a 90-day pause on reciprocal tariffs for certain countries hours after they took effect, except for China, whose imports he said now face an increased tariff of 125%, according to a Wednesday social media post.
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April 09, 2025
IRS Acting Chief To Stay On Through Mid-May, Treasury Says
The Internal Revenue Service's interim leader, Melanie Krause, will stay at her post through May 15, the U.S. Treasury Department said Wednesday, after she and other officials reportedly said they would resign following an IRS agreement to share taxpayer information with immigration enforcement agencies.
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April 09, 2025
Canada Retaliates With 25% Tariffs On US Cars And Parts
Canada began slapping 25% tariffs on American cars and parts Wednesday as retaliation against tariffs on Canadian products implemented by President Donald Trump, the country's Department of Finance announced.
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April 09, 2025
Eaton Asks To Redact Docs Before Court Review Of Tax Case
Multinational power company Eaton Corp. asked an Ohio district court to allow it to redact information related to employees' sexual orientation and religious beliefs before the court's Sixth Circuit-ordered review of their records, saying such information isn't relevant to its transfer pricing dispute.
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April 09, 2025
EU Votes To Hike Levies In Response To US Metal Tariffs
The European Union approved raising tariffs on U.S. goods in response to President Donald Trump's tariffs on steel and aluminum imposed in March, although the bloc has not yet made public the final list of products affected.
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April 09, 2025
US Tariffs Threaten Global Growth, Bank Of England Says
The U.S. government's tariff policy has created intense uncertainty for global trade and has increased risks to economic growth around the world, the Bank of England warned Wednesday.
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April 08, 2025
Feds Call Exec Charged With Tax Evasion A Flight Risk
An aerospace company founder facing tax evasion and other fraud charges should remain in pretrial detention because he's a major flight risk, prosecutors told a D.C. federal court.
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April 08, 2025
Poland To Consider Updates To Global Minimum Tax
Poland's Legislature will consider adopting administrative guidance for its implementation of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development's global corporate minimum tax later this year, according to an administrative agenda.
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April 08, 2025
South Korea Readies Steps For Responding To US Tariffs
South Korea will monitor other countries' responses to tariffs, try to negotiate with the U.S. and prepare to roll out measures to shore up its domestic industries in reaction to President Donald Trump's 25% tariffs on goods from the country, its finance ministry said Tuesday.
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April 08, 2025
Hughes Hubbard Expands Finance Practice With Tax Expert
Hughes Hubbard & Reed LLP announced it is expanding the firm's project finance practice by adding a former Norton Rose Fulbright attorney with a background in tax law to its Washington, D.C., office.
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April 08, 2025
IRS Acting Chief To Depart Amid ICE Info Sharing Deal
The Internal Revenue Service's acting commissioner Melanie Krause plans to step down, the White House confirmed Tuesday, after the agency struck an agreement with immigration enforcement authorities to share taxpayer records of non-U.S. citizens under criminal investigation.
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April 08, 2025
HMRC Beats Locum Doctor's Employee Tax Status Appeal
A U.K. tribunal has upheld a decision that a locum urologist's contract with a hospital qualifies as employment for tax and national insurance purposes, despite an earlier decision misconstruing the nature of the arrangement.
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April 08, 2025
EU Urges China To Respond Cautiously To US Tariffs
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen urged China on Tuesday to seek a negotiated solution to the tariffs imposed on Chinese goods by the U.S. administration, according to a statement by her office.
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April 08, 2025
Clarity Needed For Public Tax Reporting Rules, Australia Told
The National Foreign Trade Council urged the Australian government Tuesday to clarify exemptions for the country's new public corporate tax disclosure legislation, arguing it is otherwise difficult for companies to predict whether they are eligible for a carveout.
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April 07, 2025
Minn. Justices Quiz DuPont On Currency Hedge In Tax Row
Minnesota Supreme Court justices pressed DuPont on Monday on its argument that the state revenue commissioner should have considered the gross receipts from currency hedging activities when determining the company's income apportionable to the state.
Expert Analysis
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Litigation Inspiration: Attys Can Be Heroic Like Olympians
Although litigation won’t earn anyone an Olympic medal in Paris this summer, it can be worthy of the same lasting honor if attorneys exercise focused restraint — seeking both their clients’ interests and those of the court — instead of merely pursuing every advantage short of sanctionable conduct, says Bennett Rawicki at Hilgers Graben.
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Lean Into The 'Great Restoration' To Retain Legal Talent
As the “great resignation,” in which employees voluntarily left their jobs in droves, has largely dissipated, legal employers should now work toward the idea of a “great restoration,” adopting strategies to effectively hire, onboard and retain top legal talent, says Molly McGrath at Hiring & Empowering Solutions.
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Fishing Makes Me A Better Lawyer
Atop the list of ways fishing makes me a better lawyer is the relief it offers from the chronic stress of a demanding caseload, but it has also improved my listening skills and patience, and has served as an exceptional setting for building earnest relationships, says Steven DeGeorge​​​​​​​ at Robinson Bradshaw.
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A Healthier Legal Industry Starts With Emotional Intelligence
The legal profession has long been plagued by high rates of mental health issues, in part due to attorneys’ early training and broader societal stereotypes — but developing one’s emotional intelligence is one way to foster positive change, collectively and individually, says attorney Esperanza Franco.
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To Make Your Legal Writing Clear, Emulate A Master Chef
To deliver clear and effective written advocacy, lawyers should follow the model of a fine dining chef — seasoning a foundation of pure facts with punchy descriptors, spicing it up with analogies, refining the recipe and trimming the fat — thus catering to a sophisticated audience of decision-makers, says Reuben Guttman at Guttman Buschner.
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Circuit Judge Writes An Opinion, AI Helps: What Now?
Last week's Eleventh Circuit opinion in Snell v. United Specialty Insurance, notable for a concurrence outlining the use of artificial intelligence to evaluate a term's common meaning, is hopefully the first step toward developing a coherent basis for the judiciary's generative AI use, says David Zaslowsky at Baker McKenzie.
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Trauma-Informed Legal Approaches For Pro Bono Attorneys
As National Trauma Awareness Month ends, pro bono attorneys should nevertheless continue to acknowledge the mental and physical effects of trauma, allowing them to better represent clients, and protect themselves from compassion fatigue and burnout, say Katherine Cronin at Stinson and Katharine Manning at Blackbird.
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How Attys Can Avoid Pitfalls When Withdrawing From A Case
The Trump campaign's recent scuffle over its bid to replace its counsel in a pregnancy retaliation suit offers a chance to remind attorneys that many troubles inherent in withdrawing from a case can be mitigated or entirely avoided by communicating with clients openly and frequently, says Christopher Konneker at Orsinger Nelson.
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Using A Children's Book Approach In Firm Marketing Content
From “The Giving Tree” to “Where the Wild Things Are,” most children’s books are easy to remember because they use simple words and numbers to tell stories with a human impact — a formula law firms should emulate in their marketing content to stay front of mind for potential clients, says Seema Desai Maglio at The Found Word.
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New Crypto Reporting Will Require Rigorous Recordkeeping
The release of a form for reporting digital asset transactions is a pivotal moment in the Internal Revenue Service's efforts to track cryptocurrency activities that increases oversight by requiring brokers to report investor sales and exchanges, say Shaina Kamen and Max Angel at Holland & Knight.
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Exploring An Alternative Model Of Litigation Finance
A new model of litigation finance, most aptly described as insurance-backed litigation funding, differs from traditional funding in two key ways, and the process of securing it involves three primary steps, say Bob Koneck, Christopher Le Neve Foster and Richard Butters at Atlantic Global Risk LLC.
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A Vision For Economic Clerkships In The Legal System
As courts handle increasingly complex damages analyses involving vast amounts of data, an economic clerkship program — integrating early-career economists into the judicial system — could improve legal outcomes and provide essential training to clerks, say Mona Birjandi at Data for Decisions and Matt Farber at Secretariat.
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A Look At New IRS Rules For Domestically Controlled REITs
The Internal Revenue Services' finalized Treasury Regulations addressing whether real estate investment trusts qualify as domestically controlled adopt the basic structure of previous proposals, but certain new and modified rules may mitigate the regulations' impact, say attorneys at Simpson Thacher.