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April 07, 2026
A jury was right to convict a New Jersey man who made $40 million from filing false tax returns in a countrywide securities fraud scheme, the Third Circuit found in upholding the conviction, saying his arguments were not compelling enough to reverse the guilty verdict.
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April 07, 2026
West Virginia Sen. Jim Justice and his wife challenged a $3.6 million tax penalty for claiming what the Internal Revenue Service said was an erroneous refund for $18 million, telling the U.S. Tax Court they were improperly prevented from appealing the fine and can't afford to pay.
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April 07, 2026
A hedge fund manager challenging the denial of a $1.9 million tax refund related to his private jet told the Eleventh Circuit that the federal government is wrongly parroting a lower court's unreasonable approach to the accounting error underlying the dispute.
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April 08, 2026
HM Revenue and Customs has assumed new powers to tackle tax fraud and evasion as key parts of new legislation take effect, including tougher rules on construction industry schemes and penalties for promoters of tax avoidance arrangements. Correction: A previous version of this article misstated which HMRC reforms took effect on April 6. The error has been corrected.
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April 06, 2026
A conservative activist urged Washington's highest court to allow voters to weigh in on a newly enacted state income tax on earnings above $1 million, seeking to challenge the secretary of state's position that the new tax isn't eligible to be overturned through a citizen referendum.
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April 06, 2026
A Chewy Inc. investor has brokered a $29.5 million deal with BC Partners that, if finalized, would settle the investor's derivative suit that alleged BC Partners saddled Chewy investors with potential tax liabilities following a financially unfair downstream merger involving PetSmart Inc., the parties told the Delaware Chancery Court on Monday.
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April 06, 2026
The Bank of New York Mellon Corp. will be the federal government's financial agent in helping implement the new tax-advantaged brokerage accounts for children called Trump accounts, the U.S. Treasury Department said Monday.
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April 06, 2026
Germany, Italy, Spain, Austria and Portugal have asked the European Union to create a windfall profits tax on energy companies so governments can finance relief for spiking oil prices fueled by the U.S. and Israel's war with Iran, the EU and three finance ministries told Law360 on Monday.
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April 06, 2026
Fabletics, the activewear company cofounded by actress Kate Hudson, was hit with a proposed class action in California federal court Friday alleging it is improperly pocketing tariff surcharges from customers and is refusing to commit to refunds, weeks after a similar suit was filed in Illinois state court.
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April 06, 2026
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday vacated an appeals court's decision to uphold the conviction of a pardoned former Cincinnati council member for bribery and attempted extortion, effectively greenlighting federal prosecutors' motion to toss the case.
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April 06, 2026
The U.S. Supreme Court declined Monday to review an Oklahoma high court ruling that denied tax-exempt status to a member of the Muscogee Creek Nation.
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April 03, 2026
Drugmakers and prominent allies are inundating the U.S. Supreme Court with calls to scrutinize Medicare's new power to slash payments by tens of billions of dollars, and the justices look poised to take up or turn down a fistful of legal challenges in one fell swoop.
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April 03, 2026
A Republican-driven rollback to Georgia income taxes that could extend through the better part of the next decade capped off the state's 2026 legislative session Thursday, as lawmakers avoided the bitter fights over civil justice reform that dominated the convening of the General Assembly in 2025.
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April 03, 2026
A Ninth Circuit panel has upheld a lower court's dismissal of a challenge to former President Joe Biden's proclamation that established an Indigenous site in the Grand Canyon region as a national monument, saying that any claims of economic harm stemming from future higher energy costs are too speculative.
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April 03, 2026
Law360 is pleased to announce the formation of its 2026 Editorial Advisory Boards.
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April 03, 2026
A North Carolina federal court should reject a lawyer's bid to remain free on bail while she appeals her conviction for helping perpetrate a $22 million tax fraud scheme because she didn't show that her appeal is likely to change her conviction, federal prosecutors said.
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April 03, 2026
The IRS should not be allowed to withhold records of its investigation into an ex-broker sanctioned by the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority for hiding $1.7 million in tax liens, he told a North Carolina federal court Friday, urging it to let his case against the tax agency proceed.
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April 03, 2026
In this week's Taxation With Representation, spice maker McCormick acquires Unilever's foods business, wholesale restaurant food distributor Sysco buys Jetro Restaurant Depot, and private equity giant KKR closes a fund focused on investments in North America.
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April 03, 2026
Discounted pricing and risk-limiting contracts are driving large companies to buy clean energy tax credits to lower their IRS bills, a move experts said could become standard in corporate tax planning.
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April 02, 2026
California's Department of Tax and Fee Administration has asked a Delaware bankruptcy judge to abstain from hearing a tax audit dispute in solar panel company SunPower's Chapter 11 case, saying the matter should be handled in a state administrative forum.
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April 02, 2026
A class action against the federal government and contractor Booz Allen Hamilton seeking to hold them accountable for the unauthorized disclosure of a trove of wealthy people's tax returns by a worker on the job with the IRS can move forward, a Maryland federal judge said.
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April 02, 2026
A religious group's claim that a New Jersey township is discriminating against it because the group no longer wants to make payments on a previous tax agreement belongs in a state court, a federal district court said in dismissing the case.
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April 02, 2026
A group of investors were told by a Tennessee federal judge that they cannot claim that a property holding company is liable for debts to investors under state statute in a suit accusing a purported green energy outfit and its executives of using promises of extravagant returns to induce investments.
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April 02, 2026
The U.S. government's tariffs imposed last year likely raised consumer prices by 0.5% to 1%, the Yale Budget Lab said Thursday in a report that revised down its initial estimates.
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April 02, 2026
A Maryland federal judge on Thursday allowed SCOTUSblog founder Thomas Goldstein to relocate for the duration of his home confinement, after Goldstein's attorneys said his marriage had fallen apart and it no longer "makes sense" for Goldstein and his wife to share a residence.