International

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • May 02, 2025

    Taxation With Representation: Goodwin, Haynes Boone

    In this week's Taxation With Representation, Merck buys SpringWorks Therapeutics, Novartis AG acquires Regulus Therapeutics Inc., Sabre Corp. sells its Hospitality Solutions business to private equity shop TPG, and TWG Global and Mubadala Capital team up to bolster their investments.

  • May 02, 2025

    Community Groups Accept Pause In CTA Litigation

    A group of community associations has told the Fourth Circuit they aren't opposed to a government motion to pause litigation over the Corporate Transparency Act, even as they maintained the information disclosure law aimed at small businesses still carries constitutional flaws.

  • May 01, 2025

    Irish Tax Appeals Board Closed €355M In Cases In 2024

    Ireland's Tax Appeals Commission closed more than 1,711 appeals cases in 2024, a 12% increase over the year prior and valued at €355 million ($401 million) in taxes, the commission said in a report.

  • May 01, 2025

    Multinationals Grapple With Tariff-Induced Pricing Issues

    President Donald Trump's flurry of tariff actions since taking office has created new questions for multinationals and their transfer pricing tax planners, including how to properly account for cost increases associated with new duties in related party transactions.

  • May 01, 2025

    Trump Picks Tax Controversy Pro For IRS Chief Counsel Spot

    President Donald Trump has tapped a former Internal Revenue Service chief counsel to return to the role, and if he is confirmed, it will represent the second time in his career that the veteran tax controversy professional will be the agency's top attorney.

  • May 01, 2025

    Chilean Digital Platforms Must Show Users' Tax Compliance

    Digital platforms operating in Chile will need to show that those either contracting their services or using them to offer their owns goods and services are tax-compliant starting in 2026, Chile's tax administration said.

  • May 01, 2025

    Canada Looks To Guide Exporters Navigating US Tariffs

    The Canadian government is offering new resources for exporters dealing with what it called unjustified U.S. tariffs, providing information on rules of origin and customs procedures under the U.S.-Canada-Mexico Agreement.

  • May 01, 2025

    Estate Pushes Back On IRS In DC Circ. Lost Records Case

    The estate of a man whose offshore businesses were raided by the IRS, giving rise to a nearly $18 million tax judgment, criticized the agency's effort to rebuff the estate's claims to the D.C. Circuit that the IRS fraudulently claimed that boxes of evidence in ensuing litigation were lost.

  • May 01, 2025

    Ore. Tax Court Retains Nix Of Microsoft Foreign Income Relief

    The Oregon Tax Court is adhering to its finding on the treatment of Microsoft's repatriated foreign income when calculating its state income, making only minor changes to an earlier order and rejecting the company's arguments for further relief.

Expert Analysis

  • Unpacking The Bill To Extend TCJA's Biz-Friendly Tax Breaks

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    Attorneys at Skadden examine how a bipartisan bill currently being considered by the U.S. Senate to save the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act's tax breaks for research and development costs, and other expiring business-friendly provisions, would affect taxpayers.

  • Deciding What Comes At The End Of WTO's Digital Tariff Ban

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    Companies that feel empowered by the World Trade Organization’s recent two-year extension of the ban on e-commerce tariffs should pay attention to current negotiations over what comes after the moratorium expires, as these agreements will define standards in international e-commerce for years to come, say Jan Walter, Hannes Sigurgeirsson and Kulsum Gulamhusein at Akin Gump.

  • 4 Ways To Refresh Your Law Firm's Marketing Strategy

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    With many BigLaw firms relying on an increasingly obsolete marketing approach that prioritizes stiff professionalism over authentic connection, adopting a few key communications strategies to better connect with today's clients and prospects can make all the difference, say Eric Pacifici and Kevin Henderson at SMB Law.

  • This Earth Day, Consider How Your Firm Can Go Greener

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    As Earth Day approaches, law firms and attorneys should consider adopting more sustainable practices to reduce their carbon footprint — from minimizing single-use plastics to purchasing carbon offsets for air travel — which ultimately can also reduce costs for clients, say M’Lynn Phillips and Lisa Walters at IMS Legal Strategies.

  • Cum-Ex Prosecutions Storm Shows No Sign Of Abating

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    The ongoing trial of Sanjay Shah in Denmark is a clear indicator that efforts remain focused on holding to account the alleged architects and beneficiaries of cum-ex trading, and with these prosecutions making their way across Europe, it is a more turbulent time now than ever, says Niall Hearty at Rahman Ravelli.

  • Practicing Law With Parkinson's Disease

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    This Parkinson’s Awareness Month, Adam Siegler at Greenberg Traurig discusses his experience working as a lawyer with Parkinson’s disease, sharing both lessons on how to cope with a diagnosis and advice for supporting colleagues who live with the disease.

  • Why Supreme Court Should Allow Repatriation Tax To Stand

    If the U.S. Supreme Court doesn't reject the taxpayers' misguided claims in Moore v. U.S. that the mandatory repatriation tax is unconstitutional, it could wreak havoc on our system of taxation and result in a catastrophic loss of revenue for the government, say Christina Mason and Theresa Balducci at Herrick Feinstein.

  • For Lawyers, Pessimism Should Be A Job Skill, Not A Life Skill

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    A pessimistic mindset allows attorneys to be effective advocates for their clients, but it can come with serious costs for their personal well-being, so it’s crucial to exercise strategies that produce flexible optimism and connect lawyers with their core values, says Krista Larson at Stinson.

  • Requiring Leave To File Amicus Briefs Is A Bad Idea

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    A proposal to amend the Federal Rules of Appellate Procedure that would require parties to get court permission before filing federal amicus briefs would eliminate the long-standing practice of consent filing and thereby make the process less open and democratic, says Lawrence Ebner at the Atlantic Legal Foundation and DRI Center.

  • 4 Ways To Motivate Junior Attorneys To Bring Their Best

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    As Gen Z and younger millennial attorneys increasingly express dissatisfaction with their work and head for the exits, the lawyers who manage them must understand and attend to their needs and priorities to boost engagement and increase retention, says Stacey Schwartz at Katten.

  • Former Minn. Chief Justice Instructs On Writing Better Briefs

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    Former Minnesota Supreme Court Chief Justice Lorie Gildea, now at Greenberg Traurig, offers strategies on writing more effective appellate briefs from her time on the bench.

  • Stay Interviews Are Key To Retaining Legal Talent

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    Even as the economy shifts and layoffs continue, law firms still want to retain their top attorneys, and so-called stay interviews — informal conversations with employees to identify potential issues before they lead to turnover — can be a crucial tool for improving retention and morale, say Tina Cohen Nicol and Kate Reder Sheikh at Major Lindsey.

  • Neb. Justices Should Weigh IRC Terms In Dividend Tax Case

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    Nebraska’s highest court, which will hear oral arguments in Precision CastParts v. Department of Revenue on April 1, should recognize that the Internal Revenue Code provides key clues to defining “dividends received or deemed to be received,” and therefore limits Nebraska’s tax on foreign-sourced corporate income, says Joseph Schmidt at Ryan.

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