International
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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May 01, 2025
ECB Says Consumers Ready To Avoid US Goods Over Tariffs
European consumers are prepared to avoid American goods for the long term, following the impact of tariffs imposed by the U.S. administration, according to a survey by the European Central Bank.
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May 01, 2025
BNY Can't Escape A&O Shearman's £93M Negligence Claim
Bank of New York Mellon lost its fight Thursday to escape a claim from Allen Overy Shearman Sterling alleging that the lender caused Nationwide Building Society to face a £93 million ($109 million) tax bill by bungling the issuance of notes.
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April 30, 2025
Workers' Effective Tax Rates In OECD Up Again, But So Is Pay
While the effective tax rates on labor across the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development's 38 member countries on average ticked up for a third year in a row in 2024, average wages were up in all but four countries after dropping over the prior two years, the OECD said Wednesday.
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April 30, 2025
US Economy Shrank 0.3% In First Quarter As Imports Surged
U.S. gross domestic product fell at an annual rate of 0.3% in the first quarter of 2025 as importers stockpiled goods in advance of President Donald Trump's global tariff regime, the U.S. Department of Commerce announced Tuesday.
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April 30, 2025
EU Busts $10M VAT Fraud Ring Involving Chinese Imports
The European Anti-Fraud Office and Polish authorities uncovered a value-added tax fraud ring that exploited European Union rules to dodge over 38.2 million Polish zloty ($10.1 million) in value-added taxes on goods imported from China, they said Wednesday.
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April 30, 2025
Morgan Lewis Expands Tax Practice With Milbank Hire
Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP added a former Milbank special counsel as a tax partner based in the firm's London office.
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April 30, 2025
Dentist Fights HMRC Over Alleged Tax Avoidance
A dentist's firm urged an appeals court on Wednesday to find that it had not engaged in tax avoidance by making loan payments to its owner through a trust, saying the payments had no connection to its owner's employment and therefore were not taxable as income.
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April 30, 2025
Switzerland Begins Consultation On Pillar 2 Return Rules
The Swiss government said Wednesday that it has begun the consultation process to create compliance rules for a global information return that companies must submit as part of an international minimum corporate tax agreement known as Pillar Two.
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April 30, 2025
Sheppard Mullin Brings On Kirkland Tax Ace In Houston
Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP announced Wednesday that it expanded its tax, employee benefits and trusts and estates practice with a new partner most recently with Kirkland & Ellis LLP.
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April 30, 2025
Dem Reps. Urge Court To Block IRS-ICE Info-Sharing Pact
House Democrats and two organizations that help immigrants prepare tax returns urged a D.C. federal court 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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April 30, 2025
Fried Frank Taps Sidley's UK Tax Head
The former head of Sidley Austin LLP's U.K. tax practice has joined Fried Frank Harris Shriver & Jacobson LLP's London office, where he will advise on U.K. and international tax structuring, the firm announced.
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April 30, 2025
Ex-Treasury Official Joins Baker McKenzie's Tax Practice
Baker McKenzie has hired a former deputy assistant secretary at the Treasury Department to work on international tax matters as a partner in the firm's office in Washington, D.C.
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April 30, 2025
HMRC Should Use AI To Boost Services, Report Says
HM Revenue & Customs is still not doing enough to improve its services and should prepare to use artificial intelligence to enhance customer service for U.K. taxpayers and increase its productivity, according to a parliamentary report.
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April 29, 2025
Immigration Ruling No Help To Liberty Global, 10th Circ. Told
Liberty Global cannot use a U.S. Supreme Court ruling on interpreting ambiguous law in an immigration case to support the company's interpretation of law in its $248 million foreign tax credit claim, the federal government told the Tenth Circuit.
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April 29, 2025
Bessent Says EU Must Kill Digital Taxes For US Trade Deal
The U.S. government wants European countries to repeal digital service taxes before the European Union moves forward with trade negotiations, U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Tuesday.
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April 29, 2025
South Korea Asks IMF To Aid Global Response To US Tariffs
As President Donald Trump continues to deploy tariffs, South Korea's deputy prime minister said that the International Monetary Fund should lean into its role as a "trusted policy adviser" to help address worldwide trade tensions and overall uncertainty.
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April 29, 2025
UAE To Waive Late Tax Registration Fines For Some Cos.
Corporations in the United Arab Emirates that failed to file their tax registration applications on time will have an avenue to have associated administrative penalties waived, the country's official news agency said Tuesday.
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April 29, 2025
EU Top Court OKs Polish Property Tax Break For Railway
The Polish government may grant a property tax exemption to a private railway owner to make part of the railway available to carriers without breaking European Union law on state aid, the EU's top court ruled Tuesday.
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April 29, 2025
Automakers Get 15% Tariff Offset Under New Trump Order
President Donald Trump will sign an executive order Tuesday afternoon to provide automakers that produce and sell finished vehicles in the U.S. a 15% offset on future imported parts that face a 25% tariff for the next year.
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April 29, 2025
IRS Shouldn't Elect To Use OECD Pricing Method, AICPA Says
The IRS shouldn't unilaterally apply the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development's streamlined approach to price-related companies' baseline distribution and marketing costs and should give companies a wide berth to choose the approach, the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants told the agency.
Senate Rejects Bill To End Trump's Nat'l Emergency On Tariffs
The U.S. Senate narrowly rejected a bipartisan bill Wednesday that sought to end the national emergency declared by President Donald Trump to underpin his global tariff regime, with two senators absent for the vote, and with U.S. House consideration delayed until October.
Tax Breaks For Offshore Production Could Thwart Tariffs' Goal
President Donald Trump has said that his wide-ranging tariffs will jump-start domestic industry and production, but an international tax policy created under the 2017 federal overhaul may undermine the goal of bringing manufacturing back to the U.S.
UK Seeks Input On Replacing Diverted Profits Tax
The U.K. government is holding a consultation on plans to replace the country's diverted profits tax by changing corporation tax and transfer pricing rules, HM Revenue & Customs said Monday.
Senate Rejects Bill To End Trump's Nat'l Emergency On Tariffs
The U.S. Senate narrowly rejected a bipartisan bill Wednesday that sought to end the national emergency declared by President Donald Trump to underpin his global tariff regime, with two senators absent for the vote, and with U.S. House consideration delayed until October.
Tax Breaks For Offshore Production Could Thwart Tariffs' Goal
President Donald Trump has said that his wide-ranging tariffs will jump-start domestic industry and production, but an international tax policy created under the 2017 federal overhaul may undermine the goal of bringing manufacturing back to the U.S.
UK Seeks Input On Replacing Diverted Profits Tax
The U.K. government is holding a consultation on plans to replace the country's diverted profits tax by changing corporation tax and transfer pricing rules, HM Revenue & Customs said Monday.
Featured Stories
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Tax Breaks For Offshore Production Could Thwart Tariffs' Goal
President Donald Trump has said that his wide-ranging tariffs will jump-start domestic industry and production, but an international tax policy created under the 2017 federal overhaul may undermine the goal of bringing manufacturing back to the U.S.
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State Coffers, Businesses Brace For Tariffs' SALT Impacts
President Donald Trump's new tariffs could impose further pressures on state coffers that were already experiencing a slowdown in tax collections while underscoring the need for businesses to ensure they are complying with state sales tax obligations on the charges.
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Pope Francis Leaves Behind Tax Justice Legacy
Pope Francis, who died Monday at age 88, helped advance calls for tax justice by speaking out against the social costs of tax avoidance and raised awareness of the need for tax reform, according to proponents of income equality.
Expert Analysis
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IRS And ICE Info Sharing Could Drive Payroll Tax Enforcement
Tax crimes are historically difficult to prosecute, but the Internal Revenue Services’ recent agreement with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to share taxpayer records of non-U.S. citizens could be used to enhance payroll tax-related enforcement against their employers, say attorneys at Holland & Knight.
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Adapting To Private Practice: From DOJ Enviro To Mid-Law
Practitioners leaving a longtime government role for private practice — as when I departed the U.S. Department of Justice’s environmental enforcement division — should prioritize finding a firm that shares their principles, values their experience and will invest in their transition, says John Cruden at Beveridge & Diamond.
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Legal Ethics Considerations For Law Firm Pro Bono Deals
If a law firm enters into a pro bono deal with the Trump administration in exchange for avoiding or removing an executive order, it has an ethical obligation to create a written settlement agreement with specific terms, which would mitigate some potential conflict of interest problems, says Andrew Altschul at Buchanan Angeli.
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10 Arbitrations And A 5th Circ. Ruling Flag Arb. Clause Risks
The ongoing arbitral saga of Sullivan v. Feldman, which has engendered proceedings before 10 different arbitrators in Texas and Louisiana along with last month's Fifth Circuit opinion, showcases both the risks and limitations of arbitration clauses in retainer agreements for resolving attorney-client disputes, says Christopher Blazejewski at Sherin and Lodgen.
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The Benefits Of Aligning States On Legal Paraprofessionals
Texas' proposal to become the latest state to license paraprofessional providers of limited legal services could help firms expand their reach and improve access to justice, but consumers, attorneys and allied legal professionals would benefit even more if similar programs across the country become more uniform, says Michael Houlberg at the University of Denver.
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10 Soft Skills Every GC Should Master
As businesses face shifting regulatory and technological uncertainty, general counsel will need to strengthen certain soft skills to succeed, from admitting when they make a mistake to maintaining a healthy dose of dispassion, says Douglas Brown at Manatt.
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An Unrestrained, Bright-Eyed View Of Legal AI's Future
Todd Itami at Covington offers a bright-eyed, laughing-all-the-way, skydive look at what the legal industry could look like after an artificial intelligence revolution, which he believes may happen much sooner and more dramatically than we expect.
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Tracking The Evolution In Litigation Finance
Despite continued innovation, litigation finance remains an immature market with borrowers recieving significantly different terms as lenders learn to value cases, which firms need a strong handle on to ensure lending terms do not overwhelm collateral value, says Robert Wilkins at Lightfoot Franklin.
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E-Discovery Quarterly: The Perils Of Digital Data Protocols
Though stipulated protocols governing the treatment of electronically stored information in litigation are meant to streamline discovery, recent disputes demonstrate that certain missteps in the process can lead to significant inefficiencies, say attorneys at Sidley.
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A Cold War-Era History Lesson On Due Process
The landmark Harry Bridges case from the mid-20th century Red Scare offers important insights on why lawyers must be free of government reprisal, no matter who their client is, says Peter Afrasiabi at One LLP.
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How BigLaw Executive Orders May Affect Smaller Firms
Because of the types of cases they take on, solo practitioners, small law firms and public interest attorneys may find themselves more dramatically affected by the collective impact of recent government action involving the legal industry than even the BigLaw firms named in the executive orders, says Reuben Guttman at Guttman Buschner.
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Lawsuits Shouldn't Be Shadow Assets For Foreign Capital
Third-party litigation financing amplifies inefficiencies from litigation and facilitates national exposure to foreign influence in the U.S. justice system, so full disclosure of financing arrangements should be required as a matter of institutional integrity, says Roland Eisenhuth at the American Property Casualty Insurance Association.
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How To Accelerate Your Post-Attorney Career Transition
Professionals seeking to transition to nonattorney careers may encounter skepticism as nontraditional candidates, but there are opportunities for thought leadership and to leverage speaking and writing to accelerate a post-attorney career transition, say Janet Falk at Falk Communications and Evgeny Efremkin at Toronto Metropolitan University.