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September 24, 2026
Administrators for collapsed construction company Ardmore Construction recovered £3.4 million ($4.5 million) in overpayments from Britain's tax authority, according to a public filing.
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September 24, 2026
French delegates at the Council of the European Union are pushing for more streamlined treatment of customs intermediaries across member states to fight value-added tax fraud and unfair business competition, according to a policy note seen by Law360 on Thursday.
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September 24, 2026
The tax year of a Canadian trust that shut down just before the end of 2023 ran through the end of the calendar year, so new ownership reporting rules applied, the Tax Court of Canada said, upholding a late-filing penalty.
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September 24, 2026
New York sued Polymarket on Thursday alleging it runs an illegal gambling operation in the state through its sports prediction markets, the same day that Polymarket lodged its own suit accusing the state of intruding into the federal government's regulatory authority over derivatives trading.
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September 23, 2026
The Fourth Circuit balked late Wednesday at freeing Tom Goldstein from prison as he fights felony convictions, and it rejected fast-track review of the renowned appellate advocate's trial, indicating he'll likely spend substantial time behind bars even if his appeal succeeds.
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September 23, 2026
Maryland's governor became the latest state executive Wednesday to back off giving tax breaks to data centers, a development becoming increasingly common as the midterm elections draw near.
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September 23, 2026
Washington, D.C., would impose additional property tax on homes worth about $2.6 million or more that are not rented out or used as primary residences under legislation before the district council.
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September 23, 2026
A New York federal judge Wednesday tossed several states' lawsuit that challenged Department of Government Efficiency staff access to U.S. Department of the Treasury data, saying DOGE's dissolution rendered the states' access claims moot and that they failed to allege that any federal funding due to them was ultimately canceled.
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September 23, 2026
A Tennessee federal judge dismissed a son's bid for a refund of federal income taxes for his dead parents' estates, finding he failed to establish that his father sufficiently participated in an amusement equipment manufacturing business to claim associated losses.
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September 23, 2026
The owner of an Oregon airplane hangar failed to show that a local assessor and tax appeals board overvalued it or that it should be divided into two taxable parcels, the state tax court ruled.
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September 23, 2026
An Oregon property tax owner can proceed with their assessment appeal and file a corrected complaint after their original complaint contained the wrong tax account number, the state Tax Court ruled.
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September 23, 2026
Massachusetts homeowners' argument that a nuisance trailer parked near their property should reduce its tax valuation was rejected by a state board, which found the problem arose after the assessment date at issue.
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September 23, 2026
Britain's tax authority disputed a claim from a law firm that it suspects wealthy individuals may have underpaid inheritance tax by as much as £392 million ($523.2 million) in fiscal year 2025-26, saying the figure represents tax under consideration, not an estimate of tax owed or underpaid.
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September 23, 2026
The Labour government should grant England's mayors a 5% share of income tax revenue, shifting an additional £3.8 billion ($5 billion) a year out of central government, a think tank report said Wednesday.
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September 22, 2026
Whether intercompany payments count as profit, royalties or taxable management fees is a disputed question of fact, a Washington state appellate panel said Tuesday, ordering back to a trial court a dispute over whether a Colorado company and its affiliates owe Washington's business and occupation tax.
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September 22, 2026
A Baltimore attorney asked the Fourth Circuit to reverse a lower court's order that he cover unpaid federal income taxes owed by his client's holding company, saying he didn't engage in self-dealing.
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September 22, 2026
A man accused of helping form a sham limited liability company that fraudulently received millions in alternative fuel mixture tax credits asked the Eighth Circuit on Tuesday to reverse a judgment of more than $90 million against him, saying he shouldn't be personally liable for the company's conduct.
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September 22, 2026
Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison LLP has hired a team of transactional lawyers, including the co-head of Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP's private equity practice, the firm announced on Tuesday.
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September 22, 2026
The European Union's executive branch plans to charge a €2 ($2.29) fee per e-commerce good that enters the bloc to offset the costs of customs operations, it said in a regulation.
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September 22, 2026
The U.S. Tax Court correctly ruled that a San Francisco marijuana dispensary's expenses found to be tied to trafficking in controlled substances aren't deductible, the IRS told the Ninth Circuit, saying such a deduction shouldn't be allowed in determining an amount to settle the business's $3 million tax debt.
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September 22, 2026
Dutch authorities have arrested a suspected broker in a large-scale value-added tax fraud ring involving electronics, seizing €3.5 million ($4 million) worth of assets in the process, the European Public Prosecutor's Office said Tuesday.
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September 21, 2026
Microsoft's bid to force arbitration of an Xbox purchaser's proposed class action accusing the video game giant of wrongfully withholding tariff refunds from consumers should fail because it can't point to a clause that covers his dispute, he told a Washington federal court.
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September 21, 2026
An Illinois appellate court on Friday upheld the dismissal of a whistleblower lawsuit brought by Forde & O'Meara LLP accusing a company of secretly assigning its interests in unpaid state bills to unapproved entities to duck taxes, agreeing that a prior public disclosure of the alleged scheme in a news report bars the firm's claims.
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September 21, 2026
A disbarred lawyer and his wife owe more than $1.8 million in outstanding tax liabilities the IRS has tried to collect for more than a decade, a Wisconsin federal judge said, finding the agency substantiated the liabilities and confirmed that it properly rescinded compromise offers to resolve the debts.
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September 21, 2026
A partnership's late-filed petition in the U.S. Tax Court was due to circumstances beyond its control in a case where the final partnership adjustment from the IRS was mailed correctly but returned by the U.S. Postal Service as undeliverable, the court held Monday.