International

  • August 12, 2025

    Federal Revenue From Customs Duties Sharply Higher In July

    The federal government raised $28 billion from customs duties, including tariffs, during July, accounting for about 8.3% of federal revenues that month, compared with an average of around 2% in recent history, the U.S. Department of the Treasury reported Tuesday.

  • August 12, 2025

    Ex-PwC Partner Temporarily Banned From Aussie Tax Work

    A former PwC partner is temporarily banned from providing tax services in Australia after authorities determined he made false statements when seeking research and development tax credits, which caused a tax shortfall of over AU$11 million ($7 million), Australia's Tax Practitioners Board said Tuesday.

  • August 11, 2025

    Data Co. Asks DC Circ. To Revive $22M Guinea Award Bid

    A data consulting company has again urged the D.C. Circuit to reverse a lower court order denying its bid to enforce a $22 million arbitral award against Guinea, saying the country wrongly wants the appeals court to ignore long-standing precedent and nix enforcement on jurisdictional grounds.

  • August 11, 2025

    Tax Court Backs IRS' Denial Of Whistleblower's Award Bid

    A whistleblower was correctly denied an award for information about alleged underpayments by a large multinational corporation, the U.S. Tax Court said Monday, finding the information did not substantially contribute to the IRS' action in the case.

  • August 11, 2025

    Gov'ts Mull Gross Basis Tax For Services In UN Convention

    A number of developing countries argued Monday that gross basis taxation is the easiest-to-administer option for overcoming inequitable transfer pricing rules within a protocol on taxing cross-border services in the United Nations framework convention on international tax cooperation.

  • August 11, 2025

    Goodyear Facing Tax Adjustments Over Intercompany IP Sale

    Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. is planning to challenge proposed IRS adjustments that could undermine the company's ability to offset certain taxes related to an intercompany intellectual property sale, according to a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission filing.

  • August 11, 2025

    6th Circ. Orders Eaton To Give Employee Records To IRS

    The Sixth Circuit affirmed an Ohio federal judge's order requiring Eaton Corp. to share performance evaluations for Ireland-based workers with the IRS, holding that the agency's interest in investigating potential tax liabilities outweighs Ireland's privacy interest, which the court said was "weak" at best.

  • August 11, 2025

    Kostelanetz Hires Most Recent DOJ Tax Division Leader

    The immediate past head of the U.S. Department of Justice's Tax Division will join Kostelanetz LLP as a partner in Washington, D.C., amid a sweeping restructuring that would split the division's criminal and civil tax functions and place them in the department's main branches.

  • August 11, 2025

    2nd Circ. Affirms Denial Of Partnership's $22.7M Tax Loss

    The U.S. Tax Court correctly found the IRS properly denied a Connecticut partnership's $22.7 million loss deduction because the underlying transactions, which involved a Brazilian company, were tantamount to a disguised property sale, the Second Circuit ruled Monday.

  • August 08, 2025

    DC Circ. Hands Banker's Estate Win In IRS Whistleblower Bid

    A split D.C. Circuit sided with the estate of a former banker at Rabobank in ruling Friday that the Internal Revenue Service used the wrong legal standard to deny him an award for contributing to investigations into two companies' tax avoidance scheme.

  • August 08, 2025

    Trump Ousts IRS Commissioner Weeks After Confirmation

    Billy Long has been removed from his role as Internal Revenue Service commissioner after spending just shy of two months as head of the agency, the White House said Friday.

  • August 08, 2025

    Italy Cuts Corporate Tax Rate For Capital Goods Investment

    Italy began offering a lower corporate tax rate Friday to companies that invest in capital goods, including those that reduce energy consumption, or in hiring new employees, provided they don't lay off workers in either case, according to the Economy and Finance Ministry.

  • August 08, 2025

    South Korea Probes 49 Foreign Luxury Apartment Buyers

    South Korea's National Tax Service said it has launched a tax evasion probe into 49 owners of high-priced apartments who are from foreign countries such as the U.S. and China.

  • August 08, 2025

    Swiss Metals Group Fears US Tariffs' Impact On Gold

    The U.S.-imposed 39% tariffs on Switzerland may "negatively impact" gold trading, a Swiss metals association warned Friday.

  • August 08, 2025

    11th Circ. Vacates Russian Gas Ex-CFO's Tax Crime Sentence

    The Eleventh Circuit vacated a Russian former gas executive's seven-year prison term and order to pay $4 million in restitution to the IRS, saying federal prosecutors were wrongly given extra time to bring charges against him for failing to file income tax returns.

  • August 08, 2025

    Australia Lifts PwC Bid Ban, Citing Changes After Tax Leak

    PwC Australia is no longer banned from bidding on government contracts now that the firm has shown "ethical soundness" after a scandal involving the leak of government tax documents, the Australian Department of Finance said Friday.

  • August 08, 2025

    Taxation With Representation: Latham, Alston & Bird, Orrick

    In this week's Taxation With Representation, fiber optic connector systems maker Amphenol Corp. buys CommScope's connectivity and cable solutions business, Blackstone acquires Enverus from private equity firms, investors buy a majority stake in medical device company HistoSonics Inc., and ESPN swaps an equity stake for the National Football League's NFL Network and other intellectual property.

  • August 08, 2025

    Germany Seeks Comments On Amendments To Minimum Tax

    Germany is looking for comments on amendments to its 15% minimum tax, including on changes to how deferred tax assets are treated and on the elimination of an anti-avoidance rule limiting deductions for licensing expenses, the Finance Ministry said Friday.

  • August 08, 2025

    Midyear Review: A Look At The Tax Trends Shaping 2025

    Tax professionals had a lot to keep up with in the first half of 2025, from congressional action to extend the 2017 GOP tax overhaul to a tumultuous international trade scene. And the back half of the year is poised to be just as busy, with litigation over how the IRS handles employee retention tax credits, an Amazon suit in South Carolina over sales tax, and an uncertain future for global minimum tax rules. Here, dive into our slate of analysis pieces to help guide you through evolving tax litigation and policy. 

  • August 07, 2025

    Toyota Forecasts $9.5B Annual Hit From US Tariffs

    U.S. tariffs would cost Toyota Motor Corp. 1.4 trillion yen ($9.5 billion) during its fiscal year ending March 2026, including 450 billion yen in its first quarter, the automaker said Thursday.

  • August 07, 2025

    Siemens Contests Nix Of $315M Foreign-Dividend Tax Break

    Regulatory missteps caused the IRS to wrongly slash $315 million from a foreign-dividend tax deduction Siemens claimed on shareholder payments it received from an overseas affiliate, the medical giant told the U.S. Tax Court.

  • August 07, 2025

    Switzerland Says 39% Tariff Hits Over Half Of Exports To US

    More than half of Switzerland's exports to the United States are now impacted by a 39% tariff, the Swiss government said Thursday after the country's president left Washington, D.C., pledging to continue negotiations to reduce the rate.

  • August 07, 2025

    Hodgson Russ Adds Former NY Tax Pros To SALT Group

    Hodgson Russ LLP has announced that two former New York state and city tax professionals have joined the firm's state and local tax practice in New York City, advising the team on complex regional tax issues.

  • August 07, 2025

    India, Russia Sign Trade Pact As US Hits India For Buying Oil

    India and Russia agreed to deepen their economic ties the same day the United States set into motion tariffs on India for purchasing Russian oil, the Indian government announced.

  • August 07, 2025

    HMRC Aims To Improve Data Access For Tax Research

    HM Revenue & Customs could achieve its goal of making tax data more easily accessible to other government bodies and external researchers in part by improving its existing anonymized data production service, the agency said Thursday.

Expert Analysis

  • What To Make Of Dueling Corporate Transparency Act Rulings

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    Although challenges to the Corporate Transparency Act abound — as highlighted by recent federal court decisions from Alabama and Oregon taking opposite positions on its constitutionality — the act is still law, so companies should comply with their filing requirements or face the potential consequences, say attorneys at Lowenstein Sandler.

  • The Pop Culture Docket: Justice Lebovits On Gilbert And Sullivan

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    Characters in the 19th century comic operas of Gilbert and Sullivan break the rules of good lawyering by shamelessly throwing responsible critical thought to the wind, providing hilarious lessons for lawyers and judges on how to avoid a surfeit of traps and tribulations, say acting New York Supreme Court Justice Gerald Lebovits and law student Tara Scown.

  • State Of The States' AI Legal Ethics Landscape

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    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.

  • 8 Childhood Lessons That Can Help You Be A Better Attorney

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    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.

  • This Election, We Need To Talk About Court Process

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    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.

  • Mental Health First Aid: A Brief Primer For Attorneys

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    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.

  • The Trade And Tax Issues Behind US-Canada Digital Tax Clash

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    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.

  • Litigation Inspiration: Honoring Your Learned Profession

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    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.

  • AI May Limit Key Learning Opportunities For Young Attorneys

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    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.

  • Ruling On Foreign Dividend Break Offers 2 Tax Court Insights

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    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.

  • Why Now Is The Time For Law Firms To Hire Lateral Partners

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    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.

  • Considering Possible PR Risks Of Certain Legal Tactics

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    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.

  • It's No Longer Enough For Firms To Be Trusted Advisers

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    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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