International
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May 07, 2025
Don't Scrap US-China Tax Treaty, Biz Groups Tell Treasury
Business lobbying groups have urged the U.S. Treasury Department to reject the White House's plans to scrutinize the U.S.-China tax treaty, warning that scrapping the accord would lead to higher Chinese taxes on U.S. companies.
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May 07, 2025
HMRC Can Deny Tax Offset Extension With Case Open
HM Revenue & Customs can deny a tax offset of almost £825,000 ($1.1 million) that a group of heating and cooling companies claimed long after the two-year time limit expired even though the case remains open, Britain's Upper Tribunal ruled.
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May 07, 2025
UK Supreme Court Boosts Creditor Protection In Fraud Cases
Britain's highest court has handed administrators more power to pursue businesses that turn a blind eye to fraud, with a ruling on Wednesday that will bolster protection for creditors and could raise the stakes for companies flying too close to the wind, lawyers say.
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May 07, 2025
EU OKs €5.4B Italian Tax Breaks For Shipping Industry
The European Commission approved Italy's €5.4 billion ($6.1 billion) state aid system that will give tax breaks to ships that register in Europe and comply with environmental and safety standards, it announced Wednesday.
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May 07, 2025
Consultant Disputes Golf Retailer's VAT Invoice Claim
A former consultant to a U.K. golf retailer on Wednesday disputed the company's allegations in London court that he overcharged it nearly $1 million and failed to pay value-added tax to HM Revenue & Customs.
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May 07, 2025
Top UK Court Expands Fraud Liability In Carbon Credits Case
Britain's highest court ruled Wednesday that a major brokerage firm can be held liable for millions of pounds owed to Britain's tax collector from a carbon credits tax fraud, a decision that could expand the reach of insolvency proceedings.
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May 06, 2025
Tax Reforms Can Be Key To Ukraine's Stability, OECD Says
Ukraine has remained resilient during the war with Russia, but changes to its tax regime, including reducing compliance burdens and working to narrow some exemptions and reduced rates, could help establish fiscal stability, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development said Tuesday.
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May 06, 2025
EU Tax Committee Looking To Streamline Avoidance Measures
A European Commission tax subcommittee is considering ways to simplify the European Union's various measures aimed at preventing corporate tax avoidance, the subcommittee said ahead of a public hearing on the topic next week.
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May 06, 2025
Actor Voight, Film Biz Adviser To Trump, Floats Tax Incentives
Actor Jon Voight, whom President Donald Trump tapped as an adviser on the Hollywood film industry, told Trump that tax incentives, international treaties and limited tariffs could revitalize production, while California Gov. Gavin Newsom separately floated a $7.5 billion federal film tax credit, according to statements shared Tuesday with Law360.
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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.
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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.
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May 06, 2025
EU Must Not Go Protectionist, Council President Says
The European Union "must not respond to protectionism with more protectionism," the bloc's council president warned Tuesday, while stressing the need to look after European interests.
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May 06, 2025
Money Laundering Surges To £377M In UK Amid Fall In Fraud
Money laundering was the biggest source of fraud and economic crime by value in the U.K. in 2024, with the average value of individual cases increasing 10-fold compared with 2023, a professional services firm reported Tuesday.
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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.
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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.
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May 05, 2025
EU Prosecutors Expand Jurisdiction To Poland, Sweden
The European Public Prosecutor's Office's jurisdiction expanded to include Poland and Sweden with the swearing-in of prosecutors to represent both countries, the EPPO said Monday.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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May 02, 2025
UK Customs Co. Liable For £1.1M VAT Bill, Tribunal Says
A U.K. company responsible for getting goods through customs must split a £1.1 million ($1.3 million) value-added tax bill that an importer deferred before going out of business, the First-tier Tribunal ruled.
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May 02, 2025
US, China Battling Over Entrenched Economies, Experts Say
Differing economic philosophies are contributing to the escalating trade war between the United States and China, according to professionals who follow the countries' relations, with the Chinese government's supply-side ideology rooted in exports and U.S. deficit spending driving demand for imports.
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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.
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May 02, 2025
Glencore Exec Can't Duck Tax On £150M In Offshore Shares
Glencore's former head of oil failed to overturn a finding he was liable for income tax on nearly £150 million ($200 million) in share distributions from the Jersey-incorporated company, when an appeals court concluded Friday it was subject to U.K. taxation.
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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.
Expert Analysis
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An Associate's Guide To Career Development In 2025
As the new year begins, associates at all levels should consider establishing career metrics, fostering key relationships and employing other specific strategies to help move through the complexities of the legal profession with confidence and emerge as trailblazers, say EJ Stern and Amanda George at Fractional Law Firm.
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Making The Pitch To Grow Your Company's Legal Team
In a compressed economy, convincing the C-suite to invest in additional legal talent can be a herculean task, but a convincing pitch — supported by metrics and cost analyses — may help in-house counsel justify the growth of their team, say Elizabeth Smith and Roger Garceau at Major Lindsey.
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Tax Court Should Update Framework For Defining Insurance
The U.S. Tax Court's unnecessary determination in Royalty Management Insurance v. Commissioner that a fraudulent transaction did not contain the hallmarks of a legitimate insurance transaction applies an outdated analysis that threatens the captive insurance sector and illustrates the need for a more modern framework to define true insurance, says Matthew Queen at the Queen Firm.
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When US Privilege Law Applies To Docs Made Outside The US
As globalization manifests itself in disputes over foreign-created documents, a California federal court’s recent trademark decision illustrates nuances of both U.S. privilege frameworks and foreign evidentiary protections that attorneys must increasingly bear in mind, say attorneys at Hunton.
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Impact Of Corporate Transparency Act Ambiguity On Banks
Even though banks generally needn't file beneficial ownership information reports, financial institutions must continue to monitor the status of the Corporate Transparency Act and understand its requirements in case the nationwide injunction that was issued against the CTA earlier this month is overturned, say attorneys at Armstrong Teasdale.
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6 Changes I Would Make If I Ran A Law School
Reuben Guttman at Guttman Buschner identifies several key issues plaguing law schools and discusses potential solutions, such as opting out of the rankings game and mandating courses in basic writing skills.
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Firms Still Have The Edge In Lateral Hiring, But Buyer Beware
Partner mobility data suggests that the third quarter of this year continued to be a buyer’s market, with the average candidate demanding less compensation for a larger book of business — but moving into the fourth quarter, firms should slow down their hiring process to minimize risks, say officers at Decipher Investigative Intelligence.
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Think Like A Lawyer: 1 Type Of Case Complexity Stands Out
In contrast to some cases that appear complex due to voluminous evidence or esoteric subject matter, a different kind of complexity involves tangled legal and factual questions, each with a range of possible outcomes, which require a “sliding scale” approach instead of syllogistic reasoning, says Luke Andrews at Poole Huffman.
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Think Like A Lawyer: Note 3 Simple Types Of Legal Complexity
Cases can appear complex for several reasons — due to the number of issues, the volume of factual and evidentiary sources, and the sophistication of those sources — but the same basic technique can help lawyers tame their arguments into a simple and persuasive message, says Luke Andrews at Poole Huffman.
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Litigation Inspiration: Reframing Document Review
For attorneys — new ones especially — there is much fulfillment to find in document review by reflecting on how important, interesting and pleasant it can be, says Bennett Rawicki at Hilgers Graben.
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3 Ways To Train Junior Lawyers In 30 Minutes Or Less
Today’s junior lawyers are experiencing a skills gap due to pandemic-era disruptions, but firms can help bring them up to speed by offering high-impact skill building content in bite-sized, interactive training sessions, say Stacey Schwartz at Katten, Diane Costigan at Winston & Strawn and Lauren Tierney at Freshfields.
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The Bar Needs More Clarity On The Discovery Objection Rule
Almost 10 years after Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 34 was amended, attorneys still seem confused about what they should include in objections to discovery requests, and until the rules committee provides additional clarity, practitioners must beware the steep costs of noncompliance, says Tristan Ellis at Shanies Law Office.
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So You Want To Move Your Law Practice To Canada, Eh?
Google searches for how to move to Canada have surged in the wake of the U.S. presidential election, and if you’re an attorney considering a move to the Great White North, you’ll need to understand how the practice of law differs across the border, says David Postel at Henein Hutchison.