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April 10, 2025
IRS Microcaptive Rules Face Challenge By Familiar Foe
A microcaptive insurance advisory firm that persuaded a Tennessee federal court to vacate an IRS notice imposing reporting requirements challenged the agency's new rules on the in-house arrangements, asking the same court to set aside the regulations for being just as onerous as the previous ones.
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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 09, 2025
'Evasive' Unions Told To List Fired Probationary Workers
The California federal judge who ordered the reinstatement of many fired probationary federal workers before the U.S. Supreme Court stayed his ruling on Wednesday ordered the public sector unions representing federal staffers to provide a list of their booted members, calling their claims that the information would be difficult to produce "evasive."
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April 09, 2025
Mass. Town's Comparable Sales Rejected By Tax Board
A three-family apartment building in Massachusetts was overvalued by a local assessor by about $40,000, the Massachusetts Appellate Tax Board ruled, saying the owner's argument that the assessed value was greater than fair cash value proved persuasive.
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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
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 08, 2025
Colo. Appeals Court Urged To Toss Transportation Fees
Colorado's 2021 transportation funding law violates the state Taxpayer's Bill of Rights and related provisions, an anti-tax group told an appeals court panel Tuesday, urging it to reverse a district court order that stopped its lawsuit.
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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
IT Staffing Co. CEO Charged With $2M Payroll Tax Fraud
The chief executive officer of a Philadelphia-area information technology staffing firm was charged with failing to collect and pay $2 million in trust fund taxes on behalf of his company and also perjuring himself in his Chapter 13 bankruptcy proceedings.
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April 08, 2025
Tax-Dodging Ex-Software Exec Denied Bond Pending Appeal
A former software executive sentenced to a year in prison for failing to pay over $600,000 in employment taxes in the years before his company failed cannot remain free on bond while he appeals his conviction, a North Carolina federal judge said Tuesday.
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April 08, 2025
Judge Won't Block IRS' Automatic Denials Of Worker Credits
An Arizona federal judge rejected a request by two tax assistance companies to stop the IRS from issuing batch denials of thousands of pandemic-era worker credit claims, saying the companies, which take a cut of the refunded credits as fees, lack the legally required interest in their clients' refunds.
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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
6th Circ. Upholds Mich. Lawyer's Tax Fraud Convictions
A Michigan personal injury lawyer convicted of filing false tax returns lost a bid for a second trial Monday, as a federal appeals court said he repeated defenses already rejected once by a jury.Â
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April 08, 2025
Ore. House OKs Tax Court Standing For Associations
Associations, chambers and other organizations in Oregon could seek relief in the state tax court on behalf of their aggrieved members under legislation approved unanimously by the state House of Representatives.
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April 07, 2025
Pa. Supreme Court Snapshot: Electric Bills, Jock Tax
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court will open its three-day session in Pittsburgh Tuesday with arguments over how to weigh when a coworker or co-owner shares in an employer's immunity from lawsuits under the state's workers' compensation law, and if electricity providers can get additional services put on the utility bills drawn up by power distributors.
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April 07, 2025
Mont. State Senator, Farmer Challenge Canadian Tariff Orders
A Montana state senator and a Blackfeet Nation farmer are asking a federal court to block several Trump administration executive orders and proclamations that impose tariffs on Canadian goods and declare an energy emergency, arguing that the decisions are an unconstitutional attempt to regulate commerce while violating their treaty rights.
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April 07, 2025
DOJ Says Partnerships Can't Wipe Out $4M Tax Lien
Two partnerships cannot use a mortgage sale to foreclose on properties and wipe out the government's $4 million tax lien on a couple's real estate, the U.S. told a Washington federal court.
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April 07, 2025
Trump Threatens Triple-Digit Tariff Rates If China Retaliates
President Donald Trump on Monday threatened an additional 50% tariff on Chinese imports entering the U.S., which would drive the total rate above 100%, if Beijing follows through on the retaliatory tariffs announced last week in response to Trump's reciprocal plan.
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April 07, 2025
Starmer Calls For US Trade Deal That Avoids Tax Hikes
The Labour government would sign a trade deal with the U.S. only if the terms fit Britain's national interest, which would mean avoiding the need for further domestic tax hikes, Prime Minister Keir Starmer said in a news conference Monday.
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April 07, 2025
Montana To Appraise Taxable Real Property Every 2 Years
Montana will reappraise most taxable real property every two years under a bill signed by the governor.
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April 07, 2025
3 Plead To Construction Scheme That Skirted $26M In Taxes
Three Floridians have pled guilty to a fraud scheme that prosecutors said caused more than $26 million in tax losses, bilked insurance companies and helped employ people unauthorized to work in the United States, according to court filings.
Expert Analysis
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How The 2025 Tax Policy Debate Will Affect The Energy Sector
Regardless of the outcome of the upcoming U.S. election, 2025 will bring a major tax policy debate that could affect the energy sector more than any other part of the economy — so stakeholders who could be affected should be engaging now to make sure they understand the stakes, say attorneys at Mayer Brown.
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Opinion
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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Series
Playing Diplomacy Makes Us Better Lawyers
Similar to the practice of law, the rules of Diplomacy — a strategic board game set in pre-World War I Europe — are neither concise nor without ambiguity, and weekly gameplay with our colleagues has revealed the game's practical applications to our work as attorneys, say Jason Osborn and Ben Bevilacqua at Winston & Strawn.
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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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Series
Collecting Art Makes Me A Better Lawyer
The therapeutic aspects of appreciating and collecting art improve my legal practice by enhancing my observation skills, empathy, creativity and cultural awareness, says attorney Michael McCready.
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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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Series
Colorado Banking Brief: All The Notable Legal Updates In Q3
In the third quarter of 2024, Colorado's banking and financial services sector faced both regulatory updates and changes to state law due to recent federal court decisions — with consequences for local governments, mortgage lenders, state-chartered trust companies and federally chartered lenders serving Colorado consumers, says Sarah Auchterlonie at Brownstein Hyatt.
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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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Opinion
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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A Look At How De Minimis Import Rules May Soon Change
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.
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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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Series
Round-Canopy Parachuting Makes Me A Better Lawyer
Similar to the practice of law, jumping from an in-flight airplane with nothing but training and a few yards of parachute silk is a demanding and stressful endeavor, and the experience has bolstered my legal practice by enhancing my focus, teamwork skills and sense of perspective, says Thomas Salerno at Stinson.
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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.