International
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April 29, 2025
South Korea Asks IMF To Aid Global Response To US Tariffs
As President Donald Trump continues to deploy tariffs, South Korea's deputy prime minister said that the International Monetary Fund should lean into its role as a "trusted policy adviser" to help address worldwide trade tensions and overall uncertainty.
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April 29, 2025
UAE To Waive Late Tax Registration Fines For Some Cos.
Corporations in the United Arab Emirates that failed to file their tax registration applications on time will have an avenue to have associated administrative penalties waived, the country's official news agency said Tuesday.
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April 29, 2025
EU Top Court OKs Polish Property Tax Break For Railway
The Polish government may grant a property tax exemption to a private railway owner to make part of the railway available to carriers without breaking European Union law on state aid, the EU's top court ruled Tuesday.
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April 29, 2025
Automakers Get 15% Tariff Offset Under New Trump Order
President Donald Trump will sign an executive order Tuesday afternoon to provide automakers that produce and sell finished vehicles in the U.S. a 15% offset on future imported parts that face a 25% tariff for the next year.
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April 29, 2025
IRS Shouldn't Elect To Use OECD Pricing Method, AICPA Says
The IRS shouldn't unilaterally apply the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development's streamlined approach to price-related companies' baseline distribution and marketing costs and should give companies a wide berth to choose the approach, the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants told the agency.
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April 28, 2025
Court Urged To Reconsider Jurisdiction In Tribal Tariff Row
Blackfeet Nation members are asking a Montana federal judge to reconsider an order to transfer their challenge against President Donald Trump's tariffs on imports from Canada and abroad to the U.S. Court of International Trade, saying the decision is based on the constitutional question of the Indian commerce clause.
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April 28, 2025
OECD Says Luxembourg Tax Edits Can Help Growth, Climate
Tweaks to Luxembourg's tax regime could help the country transition from a decadeslong period of rapid growth to a more sustainable system that also helps address climate change, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development said Monday.
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April 28, 2025
Board Game Co., 11 Others Say Trump Tariffs Unconstitutional
President Donald Trump's tariffs exceed the constitutional authority of the executive branch, argued 12 American companies, including a manufacturer of tabletop games that are printed in China, urging a federal court to halt them.
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April 28, 2025
UK Seeks Input On Replacing Diverted Profits Tax
The U.K. government is holding a consultation on plans to replace the country's diverted profits tax by changing corporation tax and transfer pricing rules, HM Revenue & Customs said Monday.
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April 28, 2025
No Harm Shown Over DOGE Access To Tax Data, US Says
The U.S. government asked a D.C. federal court to throw out four organizations' bid to keep the White House's Department of Government Efficiency from accessing confidential taxpayer data, saying their suit fails to show injury to the groups' members.
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April 28, 2025
Hong Kong, Bahrain Double-Tax Treaty Enters Into Force
A treaty to avoid double taxation between Hong Kong and Bahrain has gone into force after being approved by the jurisdictions' legislatures, Hong Kong's Inland Revenue Department said Monday.
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April 28, 2025
China Doesn't Need US Grains, Seed Oils, State Planner Says
China doesn't need to import grains and seed oils from the U.S. because it can source them domestically or internationally, an official from the country's state planning commission said Monday about the most valuable category of U.S. exports to China.
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April 28, 2025
China Says No Tariff Negotiations Underway With US
China is not currently negotiating with the United States on tariffs, and President Xi Jinping has not spoken to President Donald Trump on the phone recently, a spokesperson for China's foreign ministry said Monday.
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April 25, 2025
Finland Plans €1.1B In Income Tax Cuts, Corp. Tax Reduction
Finland's government said it has agreed to an economic plan that would drop personal income tax payments by a cumulative €1.1 billion ($1.25 billion) while also cutting the corporate tax rate by 2 percentage points.
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April 25, 2025
Feds Say Tariff Fight Belongs In International Trade Court
The Trump administration wants to litigate a challenge to its tariffs in a federal trade court, not the D.C. district court, arguing that the U.S. Court of International Trade is the only venue with jurisdiction to hear the case.
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April 25, 2025
Sen. Crapo Calls Exec Session For Commerce, Treasury Noms
U.S. Senate Finance Committee Chairman Mike Crapo, R-Idaho, announced Friday that it will hold an executive session Tuesday to consider President Donald Trump's picks for roles at the U.S. Department of Commerce and U.S. Department of the Treasury.
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April 25, 2025
Canada Court OKs Late Tax Assessment For Unreported Gains
A real estate company owes taxes on more than CA$12 million ($8.7 million) in unreported capital gains that tax authorities discovered after the statute of limitations expired, the Tax Court of Canada said in a ruling released Friday, because the company had negligently failed to review its returns.
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April 25, 2025
State Coffers, Businesses Brace For Tariffs' SALT Impacts
President Donald Trump's new tariffs could impose further pressures on state coffers that were already experiencing a slowdown in tax collections while underscoring the need for businesses to ensure they are complying with state sales tax obligations on the charges.
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April 25, 2025
South Africa Backs Off VAT Rate Increase
South Africa won't increase its value-added tax rate to 15.5% as scheduled on May 1, which will cost the country an estimated 75 billion rand ($4 billion), the country's Finance Ministry said.
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April 25, 2025
Belgian Data Watchdog Blocks FATCA Transfers To US
Belgium's data privacy watchdog ruled that a government agency's transfers of personal data to the U.S. tax authority as part of the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act is prohibited under European law.
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April 25, 2025
Pope Francis Leaves Behind Tax Justice Legacy
Pope Francis, who died Monday at age 88, helped advance calls for tax justice by speaking out against the social costs of tax avoidance and raised awareness of the need for tax reform, according to proponents of income equality.
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April 25, 2025
Taxation With Representation: Dechert, Brown Rudnick
In this week's Taxation With Representation, Boeing sells parts of its digital aviation solutions business to Thoma Bravo, Baker Tilly and Moss Adams join forces, Mobico sells its U.S. school bus business to I Squared Capital, and Apollo commits to a joint venture with Bullrock Energy Ventures.
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April 25, 2025
Nightclub Owner And Accountant Guilty Of ÂŁ4.9M Tax Fraud
A court has convicted a nightclub owner and his accountant of evading ÂŁ4.9 million ($6.5 million) in tax, with the venue boss spending the money on luxury cars and a yacht, the U.K. tax authority said Friday.
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April 25, 2025
Gov't Repaid ÂŁ1.4B In Pension 'Overtaxation' Since 2015
The U.K. government was forced to pay back ÂŁ44 million ($58.6 million) in the first quarter to people who have been charged too much tax on pension withdrawals, bringing the total repaid to date to ÂŁ1.4 billion.
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April 24, 2025
Gov't Stands By $1.7M In FBAR Penalties Against Texan
Constitutional law does not stop the U.S. from imposing $1.7 million in penalties against a Texan for failure to report foreign bank accounts, the U.S. told a federal court in arguing against the "myriad" of arguments she has made to dismiss the case.
Expert Analysis
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8 Childhood Lessons That Can Help You Be A Better Attorney
A new school year is underway, marking a fitting time for attorneys to reflect on some fundamental life lessons from early childhood that offer a framework for problems that no legal textbook can solve, say Chris Gismondi and Chris Campbell at DLA Piper.
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This Election, We Need To Talk About Court Process
In recent decades, the U.S. Supreme Court has markedly transformed judicial processes — from summary judgment standards to notice pleadings — which has, in turn, affected individuals’ substantive rights, and we need to consider how the upcoming presidential election may continue this pattern, says Reuben Guttman at Guttman Buschner.
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Mental Health First Aid: A Brief Primer For Attorneys
Amid a growing body of research finding that attorneys face higher rates of mental illness than the general population, firms should consider setting up mental health first aid training programs to help lawyers assess mental health challenges in their colleagues and intervene with compassion, say psychologists Shawn Healy and Tracey Meyers.
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The Trade And Tax Issues Behind US-Canada Digital Tax Clash
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.
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Litigation Inspiration: Honoring Your Learned Profession
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.
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AI May Limit Key Learning Opportunities For Young Attorneys
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.
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Ruling On Foreign Dividend Break Offers 2 Tax Court Insights
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.
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Why Now Is The Time For Law Firms To Hire Lateral Partners
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.
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Considering Possible PR Risks Of Certain Legal Tactics
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.
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It's No Longer Enough For Firms To Be Trusted Advisers
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.
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Navigating A Potpourri Of Possible Transparency Act Pitfalls
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.
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How Methods Are Evolving In Textualist Interpretations
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.
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Why Attorneys Should Consider Community Leadership Roles
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.