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March 18, 2026
An Indiana training program for electricians may be considered a school and, thus, become eligible for a property tax exemption after the tax board too narrowly interpreted the definition of a school, the Indiana Tax Court said.
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March 18, 2026
Delaware authorized its counties to subpoena witnesses and evidence under certain conditions in disputes over nonresidential real property's assessed value as part of a bill signed by the governor.
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March 17, 2026
A Fourth Circuit panel expressed skepticism Tuesday over the IRS' pursuit of a decades-old debt from a Maryland woman whose late husband's fraudulent activities triggered the liability, with one judge calling the government's interpretation of an eligible liability for spousal relief "really tricky."
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March 17, 2026
A GOP-led panel in the U.S. House of Representatives on Tuesday advanced legislation that would raise the pleading standards for proposed class action federal benefits lawsuits and delay the start of discovery in those disputes, with Democrats on the committee voting to oppose the legislation.
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March 17, 2026
A one-time income tax refund worth up to $500 per household was given final approval by the Georgia Senate, and so the state's lawmakers have elected to cut across-the-board refund checks to taxpayers for a fourth straight year.
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March 17, 2026
South Dakota will allow counties to implement a county-wide gross receipts tax with revenue that goes toward a property tax reduction fund under a law signed by the governor.
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March 17, 2026
A Pennsylvania school district's policy of only appealing property assessments over $500,000, which resulted in appeals involving several properties owned by a mall, violates the state's constitution, an appeals court affirmed Tuesday.
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March 17, 2026
Mississippi will offer energy storage facilities that use battery energy storage systems a property tax break for energy projects under a bill signed by the governor.
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March 16, 2026
A top U.S. banking regulator is seconding the banking industry's call for the Seventh Circuit to block Illinois' tax and tip swipe-fee ban, arguing a lower-court judge missed the "forest for the trees" in ruling the state-law restrictions are enforceable against banks it oversees.
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March 16, 2026
A New York federal court threw out claims by three pension plans against a London brokerage firm that, according to the plans, executed fraudulent refund claims for them to the Danish tax authority, finding the brokerage had insufficient ties to New York.
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March 16, 2026
South Dakota eliminated a task force that oversaw the assessment and taxation of agricultural land and required the state Department of Revenue to provide data relating to the valuation of such land to state legislative tax committees under a bill signed by the governor.
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March 16, 2026
The Georgia Court of Appeals said Monday that nonattorneys can't be allowed to represent unincorporated associations in court, backing a trial court's dismissal of a minister's bid to represent his church in a property tax dispute with his home county.
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March 16, 2026
A Massachusetts home with no heat, furnace or insulation was overvalued by a local assessor, the state tax board said in a decision released Monday.
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March 16, 2026
The Internal Revenue Service violated the Seventh Amendment by imposing civil fraud penalties without a jury first reviewing them, a partnership told the Fifth Circuit, arguing the penalties' common-law roots allow the entity to invoke constitutional protections in its conservation easement tax deduction dispute.
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March 14, 2026
A South Carolina attorney and lobbyist who has billed himself as a fixer for prisoners seeking clemency from President Donald Trump made an appearance in Brooklyn federal court Saturday, following his arrest over accusations that he tried to extort a client for over half a million dollars.
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March 14, 2026
Virginia lawmakers have given final approval to legislation that would tax and regulate the sale of adult-use cannabis, sending the bill to Democratic Gov. Abigail Spanberger, who is expected to sign it into law and bring to a close a half-decade of legal cannabis limbo for the state.
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March 13, 2026
The Washington State Legislature passed a bill that would walk back estate tax rate increases approved by lawmakers last year for estates with taxable value of at least $1 million.
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March 13, 2026
President Donald Trump's order imposing 10% tariffs on countries worldwide is unlawful because it conflicts with the international payments authority he immediately invoked to justify it, two dozen states argued Friday while asking the U.S. Court of International Trade to strike down or block the regime.
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March 13, 2026
An Alabama partnership will attempt to support its deduction of a nearly $45 million conservation easement donation before the U.S. Tax Court this month by arguing that the Morgan County property could have generated at least that amount as a limestone mine.
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March 13, 2026
An attorney who led an investment partnership whose principals were criminally prosecuted for fraud is not entitled to tax deductions for theft loss related to the fallout, the Sixth Circuit ruled, saying there was no evidence that the principals intentionally fleeced him.
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March 13, 2026
The Office of the U.S. Trade Representative is investigating 60 economies that it suspects failed to prohibit the importing of goods produced with forced labor under a statute that could lead to new, long-lasting tariffs once the Trump administration's temporary global tariff regime expires in late July.
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March 13, 2026
World Cafe Live, a nonprofit live performance venue in Philadelphia, got a Pennsylvania bankruptcy judge's permission Friday to fund its Chapter 11 proceeding for two weeks after it filed for bankruptcy protection due to a looming closure for unpaid taxes.
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March 13, 2026
The IRS did not erroneously assess interest and penalties against Meta Platforms during 2020, when the company said it was protected under a diaster-relief provision, the agency argued as it urged the U.S. Tax Court to throw out the social media giant's challenge of such an assessment.
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March 13, 2026
Greenberg Traurig LLP has hired a former Taft Stettinius & Hollister LLP partner, who joins the Chicago team to continue her practice focused on private wealth services, including advising individuals, families and businesses on estate planning and tax matters.
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March 13, 2026
A Texas chemical manufacturing company is owed a sales and use tax refund on the reusable containers used to ship its products to customers, a state appeals court panel ruled, upholding a trial court order.