Tax

  • April 09, 2026

    Trade Court Shifts Tariff Refund Proceedings To New Suit

    The underlying U.S. Court of International Trade suit serving as the core of the government's development of a refund system for the now-invalidated International Emergency Economic Powers Act tariffs has changed after the original case was dismissed.

  • April 09, 2026

    IRS Urges Toss Of Revamped Stock Plan Rule Dispute

    A Wisconsin federal court should toss a company's remounted suit claiming the Internal Revenue Service secretly passed a rule targeting its stock ownership plan, the government argued, saying the company still has not presented any evidence that the rule exists.

  • April 09, 2026

    UK Drafts Carbon Border Tax Rules To Match EU System

    The U.K. tax authority released draft regulations on the country's carbon border tax regime Thursday that would broadly align it with the European Union's system for taxing carbon-intensive imports.

  • April 08, 2026

    Tax Preparer Gets 12 Years In Largest-Ever COVID Tax Fraud

    A New Jersey tax preparer was sentenced Wednesday to 12 years in prison and ordered to pay $55 million in restitution to the Internal Revenue Service after a jury convicted him of tax fraud in what authorities said was the nation's largest tax fraud case involving COVID-19 pandemic relief money.

  • April 08, 2026

    IRS, NJ Woman Settle Refund Row After High Court Loss

    The IRS and a New Jersey resident reached a settlement in a $42,000 tax refund suit in federal court nearly a year after the U.S. Supreme Court maintained the agency could eliminate her tax debt using overpayments she claims were improperly retained. 

  • April 08, 2026

    Pryor Cashman Hires Tax Atty In NY From Curtis

    Pryor Cashman LLP announced Tuesday that it has hired a former Curtis Mallet-Prevost Colt & Mosle LLP partner, touting her history advising businesses on complex tax matters across jurisdictions.

  • April 08, 2026

    UK Gov't Expands Tax Relief For Startup Investment

    The U.K.'s Labour government is expanding investment tax relief to unlock £100 million ($134.4 million) worth of funding for startups and early-stage businesses looking to grow, according to HM Treasury.

  • April 08, 2026

    Mass. Tax Board Upholds Couple's $4.9M Home Value

    A Massachusetts home on a 144-acre residential property was properly valued at $4.9 million, the state Appellate Tax Board ruled, after the owners failed to provide comparable properties to prove the value should be lowered.

  • April 07, 2026

    Rivera Kept $50M Venezuela Deal Quiet, Ex-Partner Says

    The government's star witness took the stand Tuesday in the criminal case against former U.S. Rep. David Rivera of Florida, telling jurors that Rivera and others kept a $50 million consulting contract with a unit of Venezuela's state-owned oil company quiet because of concerns about how it would be perceived in Miami.

  • April 07, 2026

    3rd Circ. Affirms NJ Man's Conviction For $40M Tax Fraud

    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.

  • April 07, 2026

    Sen. Justice Challenges IRS Over $3.6M Tax Penalty

    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.

  • April 07, 2026

    DOJ Backs Wrong View Of Accounting Error, 11th Circ. Told

    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.

  • April 08, 2026

    CORRECTED: HMRC Takes On New Powers As Tax Dodge Measures Kick In

    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.

  • April 06, 2026

    Wash. Activist Seeks To Force Vote On 'Millionaire Tax'

    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.

  • April 06, 2026

    Chewy Investor Settles Suit Against BC Partners For $29.5M

    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.

  • April 06, 2026

    BNY, Robinhood To Help Roll Out Trump Accounts

    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.

  • April 06, 2026

    Germany, Italy Ask EU For Windfall Tax On Energy Companies

    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.

  • April 06, 2026

    Activewear Co. Fabletics Sued Again For Tariff Refunds

    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.

  • April 06, 2026

    Top Court Paves Way To Wipe Out Pol's Bribery Conviction

    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.

  • April 06, 2026

    Justices Pass On Oklahoma Tribal Tax Case

    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.

  • April 03, 2026

    Case-By-Case Guide As Justices Eye Landmark Pharma Law

    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.

  • April 03, 2026

    Tax Slashes, DA Oversight Bills Mark End Of Ga. Session

    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.

  • April 03, 2026

    9th Circ. Upholds Biden Ariz. National Monument Proclamation

    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.

  • April 03, 2026

    Law360 Announces The Members Of Its 2026 Editorial Boards

    Law360 is pleased to announce the formation of its 2026 Editorial Advisory Boards.

  • April 03, 2026

    Feds Fight Atty's Bond Request Amid $22M Tax Fraud Appeal

    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.

Expert Analysis

  • Series

    Law School's Missed Lessons: Practical Problem Solving

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    Issue-spotting skills are well honed in law school, but practicing attorneys must also identify clients’ problems and true goals, and then be able to provide solutions, says Mary Kate Hogan at Quarles & Brady.

  • Opinion

    A Uniform Federal Rule Would Curb Gen AI Missteps In Court

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    To address the patchwork of courts’ standing orders on generative artificial intelligence, curbing abuses and relieving the burden on judges, the federal judiciary should consider amending its civil procedure rules to require litigants to certify they’ve reviewed legal filings for accuracy, say attorneys at Shook Hardy.

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    The Law Firm Merger Diaries: Integrating Practice Groups

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    Enacting unified leadership and consistent client service standards ensures law firm practice groups connect and collaborate around shared goals, turning a law firm merger into a platform for growth rather than a period of disruption, says Brian Catlett at Fennemore Craig.

  • Nonprofits Face Uncertainty Over Political Activity Rules

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    Two federal court decisions suggesting that the Internal Revenue Service's rules for 501(c)(4) organizations' political activity may be too vague to survive constitutional scrutiny leave nonprofit organizations caught between constitutional limits on government regulation of speech and tax limits on their exempt status, say attorneys at BakerHostetler.

  • Opinion

    Supreme Court Term Limits Would Carry Hidden Risk

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    While proposals for limiting the terms of U.S. Supreme Court justices are popular, a steady stream of relatively young, highly marketable ex-justices with unique knowledge and influence entering the marketplace of law and politics could create new problems, say Michael Broyde at Emory University and Hayden Hall at the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware.

  • Series

    Knitting Makes Me A Better Lawyer

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    Stretching my skills as a knitter makes me a better antitrust attorney by challenging me to recalibrate after wrong turns, not rush outcomes, and trust that I can teach myself the skills to tackle new and difficult projects — even when I don’t have a pattern to work from, says Kara Kuritz at V&E.

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    The Biz Court Digest: Welcome To Miami

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    After nearly 20 years in operation, the Miami Complex Business Litigation Division is a pioneer upon which other jurisdictions in the state have been modeled, adopting many innovations to keep its cases running more efficiently and staffing experienced judges who are accustomed to hearing business disputes, say attorneys at King & Spalding.

  • AI Evidence Rule Tweaks Encourage Judicial Guardrails

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    Recent additions to a committee note on proposed Rule of Evidence 707 — governing evidence generated by artificial intelligence — seek to mitigate potential dangers that may arise once machine outputs are introduced at trial, encouraging judges to perform critical gatekeeping functions, say attorneys at Lankler Siffert & Wohl.

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    The Law Firm Merger Diaries: Getting The Message Across

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    Communications and brand strategy during a law firm merger represent a crucial thread that runs through every stage of a combination and should include clear messaging, leverage modern marketing tools and embrace the chance to evolve, says Ashley Horne at Womble Bond.

  • Opinion

    Horizontal Stare Decisis Should Not Be Casually Discarded

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    Eliminating the so-called law of the circuit doctrine — as recently proposed by a Fifth Circuit judge, echoing Justice Neil Gorsuch’s concurrence in Loper Bright — would undermine public confidence in the judiciary’s independence and create costly uncertainty for litigants, says Lawrence Bluestone at Genova Burns.

  • 10 Commandments For Agentic AI Tools In The Legal Industry

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    Though agentic artificial intelligence has demonstrated significant promise for optimizing legal work, it presents numerous risks, so specific ethical obligations should be built into the knowledge base of every agentic AI tool used in the legal industry, says Steven Cordero at Akerman LLP.

  • Class Actions At The Circuit Courts: December Lessons

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    In this month's review of class action appeals, Mitchell Engel at Shook Hardy discusses recent rulings and identifies practice tips from cases involving securities, takings, automobile insurance, and wage and hour claims.

  • NY Tax Talk: New ALJs, New Rules, Apportionment, Bundling

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    Attorneys at Eversheds review the top New York tax law developments from last quarter, including appointments to the New York City Tax Appeals Tribunal and the city's proposed rules to clarify income taxation of foreign corporations, and highlight two litigation matters to watch.

  • Series

    Preaching Makes Me A Better Lawyer

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    Becoming a Gospel preacher has enhanced my success as a trial lawyer by teaching me the importance of credibility, relatability, persuasiveness and thorough preparation for my congregants, the same skills needed with judges and juries in the courtroom, says Reginald Harris at Stinson.

  • State, Federal Incentives Heat Up Geothermal Projects

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    Geothermal energy can now benefit from dramatically accelerated permitting for development on federal land as well as state-level renewable energy portfolio standards — but operating in the complex legal framework surrounding geothermal projects requires successful navigation of complex water rights and environmental regulations, say attorneys at Holland & Hart.

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