International
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April 07, 2025
HMRC Says Hospital Parking Should Not Be VAT-Free
HM Revenue and Customs told Britain's top court on Monday that a National Health Service trust providing car parking services should not be exempt from value-added tax, a case that could affect dozens of stayed appeals by NHS entities that total £70 million ($90 million).
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April 07, 2025
Brit Jailed For Money Laundering Plot After 7 Yrs On The Run
An extradited tax fugitive has been jailed for five-and-a-half years for his involvement in a £3.5 million ($4.5 million) money laundering scheme, HM Revenue and Customs said Monday.
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April 06, 2025
Senate Passes Amended Budget With Permanent Tax Cuts
The Senate sent back to the House an amended budget bill that would permanently extend the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act and allow for up to $1.5 trillion in other tax cuts, setting the stage for negotiations on the bill between the two chambers.
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April 04, 2025
Limited Corp. Disclosure Regs May Spark Legal Challenges
The U.S. Treasury Department's newly narrowed information disclosure regulations, which cover less than 1% of the 33 million small businesses operating in the U.S., likely lay the groundwork for legal challenges contending that the guidance flouts underlying corporate transparency legislation.
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April 04, 2025
Bulgarian Tax Authorities Violated EU VAT Law, ECJ Rules
Bulgarian tax authorities violated European Union value-added tax law by removing a construction company from the nation's VAT registry for nonpayment of taxes without conducting a thorough investigation into whether it should be stricken, the European Court of Justice ruled.
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April 04, 2025
Ireland Seeks Feedback On R&D Tax Credit Regime
Ireland's Ministry of Finance is looking for input on the country's research and development tax credit system, asking for comments on whether it's still operating effectively and how it could be improved.
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April 04, 2025
The Tax Angle: Dueling Economic Outlooks For TCJA Renewal
From a look at opposite economic projections for renewing the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act during the Senate debate on the Republicans' fiscal 2026 budget resolution, here's a peek into a reporter's notebook on a few of the week's developing tax stories.
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April 04, 2025
Norway Proposes New Digital, Crypto Tax Disclosures
Digital services platforms and certain crypto-asset platforms doing business in Norway would be required to submit information on their users to the country's tax administration under a proposal from the Ministry of Finance on Friday.
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April 04, 2025
China Issues Tariffs, WTO Challenge To Hit Back At Trump
Chinese officials began honing their response to the Trump administration's expansive new tariffs on Friday, setting up retaliatory duties and announcing plans for a challenge at the World Trade Organization.
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April 04, 2025
Taxation With Representation: Ropes & Gray, Paul Hastings
In this week's Taxation With Representation, Siemens AG acquires Dotmatics from Insight Partners, LPL Financial acquires Commonwealth Financial Network, Brookfield Asset Management takes a majority stake in Angel Oak Cos., and TowneBank acquires Old Point Financial Corp.
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April 04, 2025
Denmark's £56M Cum-Ex Fraud Case Struck Out On Appeal
Denmark's roughly £56 million ($72 million) tax refund fraud claim against an English brokerage was struck out Friday after a London appeals court ruled that an issue "fundamental" to the case had been decided in earlier proceedings.
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April 03, 2025
EU Top Court Backs €4.2M Tax Levy Against Game Developer
Lithuanian tax authorities did not err when disallowing a video games company's tax deductions for dividends it received from a subsidiary, resulting in a charge of €4.2 million ($4.6 million) in taxes, interest and penalties, the European Union's top court said Thursday.
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April 03, 2025
DOGE Cuts Overlook Long-Standing Bids To Improve IRS
As President Donald Trump moves to downsize the federal government, the new administration may be missing an opportunity to evaluate long-standing proposals that aim to make the Internal Revenue Service run more efficiently, such as major technology upgrades and improving the dispute resolution process.
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April 03, 2025
Taiwan's Executive Calls US Tariffs 'Totally Unreasonable'
Taiwan's executive branch said Thursday that the new U.S. tariffs of 32% on all goods from the island are "totally unreasonable," questioning the "scientific basis" of the U.S. government's methodology.
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April 03, 2025
Senate Passes Long-Shot Bill To End Trump's Canada Tariffs
The U.S. Senate on Wednesday evening passed a resolution to eliminate the national emergency President Donald Trump declared to impose 25% tariffs on Canadian imports, but the measure is likely to stall in the House and certain to be vetoed.
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April 03, 2025
Japan To Subsidize Biz Affected By Trump's Tariffs, PM Says
Japan's government is planning to subsidize businesses affected by the U.S. placing a 24% tariff on all goods imported from the country and to relax requirements for government loans, Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba said Thursday.
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April 03, 2025
EU Authorities Arrest 3 In €50M VAT Fraud Investigation
Authorities have arrested three people for their alleged ties to a €50 million ($55 million) value-added tax fraud scheme involving the trade of electronic goods, the European Public Prosecutor's Office said Thursday, tying this fraud to a larger €195 million scheme that is still under investigation.
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April 03, 2025
South Korea To Support Industries Hit By US Tariffs
Acting South Korean President Han Duck-soo called Thursday for support to industries like automobiles and others affected by the "global tariff war" that he said was kicked off by the U.S. when it placed a 25% tariff on the country, according to local media.
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April 03, 2025
Group Seeks To Block Swedish Tax Agency From Selling Data
The Swedish Tax Agency has flouted the country's Supreme Court by continuing to sell taxpayers' personal information to data brokers, an Austrian nonprofit organization told an administrative court in a petition seeking to block the practice.
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April 03, 2025
UK Gov't Preparing List Of US Goods For Tariffs
The U.K. government revealed a list of U.S. goods it might target with tariffs in response to the tariffs on British goods announced by the Trump administration, according to a statement Thursday.
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April 02, 2025
Attys Call Ending DOJ Tax Division 'Epic Failure' In Efficiency
The U.S. Department of Justice's plan to dissolve its Tax Division would jeopardize effective tax enforcement nationwide, a slew of tax controversy lawyers told the DOJ Wednesday, saying such a move would defeat President Donald Trump's stated overarching goal to improve government efficiency.
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April 02, 2025
Trump Unveils New Tariffs On Dozens Of Countries
President Donald Trump announced sweeping tariffs on major trading partners Wednesday, including a 10% rate on all goods entering the U.S. to take effect later this week, in a "declaration of economic independence" he says will jump-start domestic industry and production.
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April 02, 2025
6th Circ. Orders Private Review Of Docs In Eaton Tax Case
The Sixth Circuit granted a request by multinational power company Eaton Corp. to order a lower court to review in chambers sensitive performance evaluations in its transfer pricing case challenging an Internal Revenue Service summons for its European employee records.
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April 02, 2025
Ireland's Net Green Tax Revenue Totals €128M, Report Says
Ireland's tax system is climate-positive, with the country's budget for 2025 projected to collect €128 million ($139 million) more from tax policies designed to help the environment than from policies that reward climate-negative activities, the Department of Finance said in a report.
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April 02, 2025
Israel's Carbon Tax Doesn't Go Far Enough, OECD Says
Israel's carbon tax, which went into effect at the start of the year, applies too low a rate to natural gas, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development said Wednesday, calling on the country to bring its carbon prices in line with OECD standards.
Expert Analysis
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Requiring Leave To File Amicus Briefs Is A Bad Idea
A proposal to amend the Federal Rules of Appellate Procedure that would require parties to get court permission before filing federal amicus briefs would eliminate the long-standing practice of consent filing and thereby make the process less open and democratic, says Lawrence Ebner at the Atlantic Legal Foundation and DRI Center.
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4 Ways To Motivate Junior Attorneys To Bring Their Best
As Gen Z and younger millennial attorneys increasingly express dissatisfaction with their work and head for the exits, the lawyers who manage them must understand and attend to their needs and priorities to boost engagement and increase retention, says Stacey Schwartz at Katten.
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Former Minn. Chief Justice Instructs On Writing Better Briefs
Former Minnesota Supreme Court Chief Justice Lorie Gildea, now at Greenberg Traurig, offers strategies on writing more effective appellate briefs from her time on the bench.
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Stay Interviews Are Key To Retaining Legal Talent
Even as the economy shifts and layoffs continue, law firms still want to retain their top attorneys, and so-called stay interviews — informal conversations with employees to identify potential issues before they lead to turnover — can be a crucial tool for improving retention and morale, say Tina Cohen Nicol and Kate Reder Sheikh at Major Lindsey.
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Neb. Justices Should Weigh IRC Terms In Dividend Tax Case
Nebraska’s highest court, which will hear oral arguments in Precision CastParts v. Department of Revenue on April 1, should recognize that the Internal Revenue Code provides key clues to defining “dividends received or deemed to be received,” and therefore limits Nebraska’s tax on foreign-sourced corporate income, says Joseph Schmidt at Ryan.
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Judicial Independence Is Imperative This Election Year
As the next election nears, the judges involved in the upcoming trials against former President Donald Trump increasingly face political pressures and threats of violence — revealing the urgent need to safeguard judicial independence and uphold the rule of law, says Benes Aldana at the National Judicial College.
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Spartan Arbitration Tactics Against Well-Funded Opponents
Like the ancient Spartans who held off a numerically superior Persian army at the Battle of Thermopylae, trial attorneys and clients faced with arbitration against an opponent with a bigger war chest can take a strategic approach to create a pass to victory, say Kostas Katsiris and Benjamin Argyle at Venable.
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What Recent Study Shows About AI's Promise For Legal Tasks
Amid both skepticism and excitement about the promise of generative artificial intelligence in legal contexts, the first randomized controlled trial studying its impact on basic lawyering tasks shows mixed but promising results, and underscores the need for attorneys to proactively engage with AI, says Daniel Schwarcz at University of Minnesota Law School.
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How FinCEN Proposal Expands RE Transaction Obligations
Against a regulatory backdrop foreshadowing anti-money laundering efforts in the real estate sector, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network's proposed rule significantly expands reporting requirements for certain nonfinanced residential real estate transfers and necessitates careful review, say attorneys at Fried Frank.
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Litigation Inspiration: A Source Of Untapped Fulfillment
As increasing numbers of attorneys struggle with stress and mental health issues, business litigators can find protection against burnout by remembering their important role in society — because fulfillment in one’s work isn’t just reserved for public interest lawyers, say Bennett Rawicki and Peter Bigelow at Hilgers Graben.
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Unpacking FinCEN's Proposed Real Estate Transaction Rule
Phil Jelsma and Ulrick Matsunaga at Crosbie Gliner take a close look at the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network's recently proposed rulemaking — which mandates new disclosures for professionals involved in all-cash real estate deals — and discuss best next steps for the broad range of businesses that could be affected.
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Think Like A Lawyer: Forget Everything You Know About IRAC
The mode of legal reasoning most students learn in law school, often called “Issue, Rule, Application, Conclusion,” or IRAC, erroneously frames analysis as a separate, discrete step, resulting in disorganized briefs and untold obfuscation — but the fix is pretty simple, says Luke Andrews at Poole Huffman.
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How New EU Tax And Transfer Pricing Rules May Affect M&A
Companies involved in mergers and acquisitions may need to adjust fiscal due diligence procedures to ensure they consider potential far-reaching effects of newly implemented transfer pricing measures, such as newly implemented global minimum tax and European Union anti-tax avoidance directives and proposals, says Patrick Tijhuis at BDO.