Federal
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May 15, 2025
Tax Court Won't Review Mass. Man's $121K Proposed Levy
The U.S. Tax Court said Thursday that it will not review a nearly $121,000 levy the Internal Revenue Service issued against a Massachusetts man, saying that it received his petition 194 days after the 30-day period to seek review in the court.
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May 15, 2025
IRS Reopens Comment Period For Offshore Profit Regs
The Internal Revenue Service on Thursday reopened the comment period for proposed rules that would require U.S. multinational companies to create annual shareholder accounts and adhere to new pooling concepts to properly account for previously taxed earnings and profits.
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May 15, 2025
Applicable Federal Rates To Mostly Drop In June
Applicable federal rates for income tax purposes are set to mostly decrease in June, the fourth consecutive month in which rates have fallen, the Internal Revenue Service said Thursday.
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May 15, 2025
House Tax Bill's Foreign Rules May Finish Off Energy Perks
House Republicans' mammoth tax bill proposes phasing out two popular clean electricity business tax credits, but additional restrictions on eligible development projects' foreign business ties could have the same effect as immediately repealing them.
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May 15, 2025
Pillar Two Costs May Outweigh Revenue, Tax Exec Says
The administrative requirements for complying with an international minimum tax agreement known as Pillar Two could end up costing companies more than any taxes they pay under the global regime, a Microsoft tax executive said Thursday.
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May 15, 2025
IRS Can Collect From Ex-Atty In $7B Tax Fraud, 7th Circ. Told
The IRS has the authority to collect the restitution owed by a former attorney convicted of a $7 billion tax fraud scheme, the U.S. government told the Seventh Circuit, saying he is inventing a loophole to avoid paying his $371 million liability.
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May 15, 2025
IRS Issues Corp. Bond Monthly Yield Curve For May
The IRS published the corporate bond monthly yield curve Thursday for use in calculations for defined benefit plans for May, as well as corresponding segment rates and other related provisions.
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May 15, 2025
House Plans Vote On Budget Bill With Tax Package Next Week
Republican leaders in the House plan to hold a vote next week on the chamber's budget bill that includes the GOP's $3.8 trillion tax package, with the aim of sending the legislation to the Senate before Memorial Day, Ways and Means Committee Chairman Jason Smith said Thursday.
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May 15, 2025
Texan Says IRS' $1M FBAR Penalty Unconstitutional
A Texan urged a federal court to dismiss the U.S. government's suit seeking to collect $1 million in penalties for unreported offshore bank accounts, arguing that the IRS' penalty assessment violated her constitutional right to a jury trial.
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May 15, 2025
Penalty Challenge In $14M Estate Tax Case Heads To Trial
A woman who failed to file a tax return for her brother's nearly $14 million estate can move forward with a suit challenging the ensuing IRS penalties, a Rhode Island federal judge ruled, saying a jury might excuse the mistake by finding she relied on flawed legal advice.
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May 15, 2025
Exxon Looking For 6 Additions To Taxable Substances List
The Internal Revenue Service asked for comments Thursday on proposals by Exxon Mobil to add six chemicals to the agency's list of taxable substances.
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May 14, 2025
House Panel To Fold $3.8T Tax Overhaul Into Budget Package
The House Budget Committee has scheduled a vote Friday on legislation that would combine the House Ways and Means Committee's $3.8 trillion tax bill with the work of other House committees as part of the fiscal 2025 budget reconciliation bill.
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May 14, 2025
Wisconsin Lake Homeowners Amend Tribal Tax Burden Suit
Four lake homeowners and an association have amended a suit against local governments in the Menominee reservation in northern Wisconsin, claiming the tribe has sought to grow the amount of tax-exempt land while leaving owners of taxable homes to pay more than their fair share.
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May 14, 2025
Marathon Pushes Back On Bid To Nix Fuel Tax Credit Claims
Marathon Petroleum pushed back against the government's bid to end part of a lawsuit seeking hundreds of millions of dollars in tax refunds for its alternative fuel mixtures, telling an Ohio federal court that contrary to the government's claims, butane is an alternative fuel.
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May 14, 2025
Payroll Co. Owner Cops To Fraud, Tax Charges
A former payroll company owner pled guilty to embezzling from her clients and failing to pay employee withholdings to the IRS on their behalf.
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May 13, 2025
House Panel Clears $3.8T Extension of 2017 Tax Overhaul Law
The House Ways and Means Committee voted along party lines early Wednesday to approve a $3.8 trillion tax bill that would make permanent many of the tax cuts for businesses and individuals enacted in President Donald Trump's first term.
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May 13, 2025
Trade Court Panel Looks Askance At Trump Tariff Justification
A U.S. Court of International Trade panel expressed skepticism Tuesday that the emergency law President Donald Trump is using to impose global tariffs left the determination of an "unusual and extraordinary threat" to be a political rather than legal question.
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May 13, 2025
Energy Co. Schemed On Tribal Tax Credits, Dem Senators Say
Senate Finance Committee Democrats asked an energy company's chairman Tuesday to address what they allege is evidence of a scheme involving members of President Donald Trump's new administration, including the nominee for IRS commissioner, to validate tribal tax credits the agency says are nonexistent.
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May 13, 2025
8th Circ. Urged To Enforce IRS Pricing Method On Medtronic
The U.S. Tax Court erred by tossing the IRS' suggested method to price royalties for intangible property licensed by medical device maker Medtronic to a Puerto Rican affiliate because its products differed from those of comparable uncontrolled companies, a government attorney told the Eighth Circuit on Tuesday.
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May 13, 2025
Feds Want 2½ Years For Ex-Alvarez & Marsal CPA In Tax Case
A onetime managing director at consulting firm Alvarez & Marsal should spend two-and-a-half years in prison as punishment for failing to file his personal taxes and lying on a mortgage application, prosecutors told a D.C. federal judge.
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May 13, 2025
Exxon Asks To Add 2 Chemicals To Taxable Substances List
The Internal Revenue Service asked for comments Tuesday on proposals by Exxon Mobil to add two chemicals to the agency's list of taxable substances.
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May 13, 2025
Cahill Gordon Recruits Fried Frank Digital Assets Co-Leader
Cahill Gordon & Reindel LLP has added the former co-head of Fried Frank Harris Shriver & Jacobson LLP's digital assets and blockchain practice as a partner in Washington, D.C., the firm announced Tuesday.
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May 12, 2025
Feds Say Tribal Tariff Dispute Must Stay In US Trade Court
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security is fighting Montana tribal members' attempt to stop the transfer of their lawsuit challenging President Donald Trump's Canada tariff orders from federal court to the U.S. Court of International Trade, saying the CIT has exclusive jurisdiction over the case.
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May 12, 2025
DC Judge Declines To Block IRS From Sharing Info With ICE
A D.C. federal judge rejected Monday a trio of immigration advocacy groups' request to block the Internal Revenue Service from sharing with immigration enforcement agencies the names and addresses of people suspected of being in the country illegally.
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May 12, 2025
Tax Court Calls Tax Lawyer's Arguments Against IRS Frivolous
The U.S. Tax Court found Monday that a tax lawyer who was admitted to practice before the court had advanced four frivolous arguments contesting the authority of the IRS, upholding over $1 million in deficiencies and other additions to tax.
Expert Analysis
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State Of The States' AI Legal Ethics Landscape
Over the past year, several state bar associations, as well as the American Bar Association, have released guidance on the ethical use of artificial intelligence in legal practice, all of which share overarching themes and some nuanced differences, say Eric Pacifici and Kevin Henderson at SMB Law Group.
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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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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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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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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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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.