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May 06, 2026
An Orlando couple were sentenced to prison for participating in a $148 million construction payroll scheme and evading more than $37 million in payroll taxes, Florida federal prosecutors announced Wednesday.
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May 06, 2026
Eligible partnerships may soon be able to settle their disputes with the IRS over charitable tax deductions claimed on their donated conservation or historic preservation easements under an upcoming "time-limited" opportunity, the agency announced Wednesday.
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May 06, 2026
An ex-appointee of Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer was charged Wednesday with 16 felonies in connection with misappropriation of a $20 million taxpayer-funded business grant.
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May 06, 2026
Two attorneys and an insurance agent faced a Fourth Circuit panel Wednesday that seemed hard-pressed to overturn their convictions for orchestrating a $22 million tax avoidance scheme, with the judges casting doubt on their venue objections and claims that the false tax returns contained truthful information.
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May 06, 2026
A Chinese citizen seeking a refund of penalties imposed by the IRS over a failure to report wedding gifts she received from abroad cannot argue the agency must collect the penalties through a civil action, a California federal court said, partially dismissing her suit.
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May 06, 2026
The insurance industry should be allowed to ignore regulations from 2024 covering how corporations determine taxable income with respect to affiliates that conduct business in a foreign currency, the American Council of Life Insurers told the U.S. Treasury in a letter released Wednesday.
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May 06, 2026
Oklahoma would allow certain rental housing to be valued using a cost approach instead of an income approach under a bill passed in the state House of Representatives.
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May 06, 2026
Massachusetts' top court on Wednesday seemed to agree that an ongoing dispute between the state attorney general and auditor over a voter-backed audit of the legislature needs to come to an end, even as justices dinged both sides for the stalemate.
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May 06, 2026
Advanced plastic recycling should be eligible for a new tax perk allowing full expensing of a qualified production property's costs, a chemical trade association said in a letter, released Wednesday, recommending the industry-specific change for the IRS' upcoming proposed regulations.
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May 05, 2026
A uranium mining company is looking to disqualify Dorsey & Whitney LLP as counsel for potential intervenors in a lawsuit in Colorado federal court over an arbitration initiated by another mining company based on a mineral assets purchase, saying Dorsey can't drop it like a "hot potato."
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May 05, 2026
More than a dozen lawyers and defendants packed a Colorado federal courtroom Tuesday to mark the first day of testimony in the trial against four individuals accused of using their businesses to help promote and sell abusive trust tax shelters.
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May 05, 2026
Ending the carried interest tax break could raise far more than previously estimated, nearly $88 billion in a decade, based on a new methodology put forward in a report by the Yale Budget Lab.
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May 05, 2026
Washington's recently passed tax on income over $1 million cannot be subject to a voter referendum, the state Supreme Court ruled, finding that the tax falls under a referendum exception because of its deemed necessity.
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May 05, 2026
A transportation company cannot pursue its claims that the IRS adopted a secret rule that targeted its stock ownership plan, a Wisconsin federal judge ruled, throwing out the company's suit.
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May 05, 2026
An English soccer referee body won its decadelong dispute with the U.K.'s tax authority after a London tribunal ruled that referees' match-day engagements were contracts for services rather than employment, meaning the group isn't liable for the referees' taxes.
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May 05, 2026
A Wisconsin village is asking the Seventh Circuit to undo a U.S. Department of the Interior decision to place 500 acres of properties into trust for the Oneida Nation, arguing that a district court ignored evidence of bias and shielded the transactional record from meaningful scrutiny.
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May 05, 2026
Latin America and the Caribbean continue to rely far more on taxing goods and services compared to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, while tax revenue as a share of economic growth was largely stagnant in 2024 absent Cuba's outsized gains, the organization said Tuesday in a report.
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May 05, 2026
The Internal Revenue Service agreed to require supervisors to use digital signatures to approve tax penalties as a way to prevent improper backdating and other edits to the approval documents, the agency watchdog said in a report released Tuesday.
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May 05, 2026
European Union member states agreed Tuesday to give anti-fraud bodies more direct access to value-added tax data to better combat VAT-related crime.
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May 04, 2026
Tech groups urged a Florida federal court to deny an attempt to end a lawsuit challenging a state law that punishes social media websites for banning accounts of political candidates' based on viewpoint, calling officials' defense of the legislation "borderline frivolous."
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May 04, 2026
Massachusetts' highest court on Monday was critical of the summary for a ballot proposal to reduce the state income tax during a trio of oral arguments on voter initiatives, including separate measures to repeal recreational marijuana legalization and to eliminate one-party primary elections.
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May 04, 2026
A Minnesota attorney's claim that a county assessor tampered with a witness in a valuation dispute was rejected by the state's tax court, which called the accusation "scurrilous" and found the attorney willfully failed to timely disclose key information.
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May 04, 2026
A former Internal Revenue Service agent was arrested for allegations that he embezzled more than $12 million in his role as a chief financial officer of a New Jersey fuel company, the New Jersey U.S. Attorney's Office said.
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May 04, 2026
The U.S. Tax Court slashed two partnerships' charitable tax deductions worth a combined $30 million for a pair of conservation easement donations, ruling Monday that the easements' outsize valuation was an attempt to make "too many fast nickels."
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May 04, 2026
A Minnesota organization advocating for Belarusian Americans was late to appeal a property tax valuation despite correspondence making its representative aware of the deadline, the state tax court said.