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March 30, 2026
The U.S. Department of Labor unveiled a proposal Monday to expand access to alternative investments, like private equity and digital assets, in retirement plans by establishing a safe harbor process for fiduciaries to follow when deciding where retirees' savings go.
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March 27, 2026
The $50 million consulting contract that former Florida Congressman David Rivera signed with the U.S. affiliate of Venezuela's state-owned oil company was ultimately funded and controlled by the Venezuelan parent company, the attorney who drafted the document said Friday at Rivera's trial on charges of failing to register as a foreign agent.
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March 27, 2026
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission announced Friday that it is walking away from a case accusing restaurant franchisor FAT Brands of running an illegal $27 million personal loan scheme to fuel its former CEO's lavish lifestyle as the public company foundered.
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March 27, 2026
A Georgia appellate court must reconsider its opinion that Uber was required to collect and remit millions in sales taxes on behalf of drivers and customers who used its app before the Wayfair decision, the state's highest court said.
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March 27, 2026
A partnership is entitled to all of its claimed $70 million tax deduction for donating a conservation easement in Louisiana, as the IRS stipulated to missing a notification deadline for disallowing the tax break, according to a decision entered Friday in the U.S. Tax Court.
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March 27, 2026
A Missouri lawyer convicted of helping perpetrate a $22 million tax scheme is asking to stay out of prison while she appeals, telling a North Carolina federal court that she believes her appeal could be successful on grounds that her indictment was obtained unconstitutionally.
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March 27, 2026
A D.C. federal court said Friday it does not have the authority to order New York City to issue a tax refund sought by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. in its capacity as receiver of the failed Silicon Valley Bank.
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March 27, 2026
The Kansas Board of Tax Appeals properly complied with an appellate court's instructions for remand in a property tax case, the court ruled Friday, finding that the board was able to explain the weighted value it gave to leases when appraising the property.
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March 27, 2026
The past week in London has seen Apple hit back at a tech company's wireless charging patent claim, a flurry of businesses bring COVID-19 pandemic insurance claims as a key deadline draws closer and Ipulse Partners LLP file a claim against a luxury yacht company it represented in a trademark dispute. Here, Law360 looks at these and other new claims in the U.K.
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March 27, 2026
The former CEO of The Michaels Organization, who was indicted in New Jersey's now-dismissed criminal racketeering case against South Jersey power broker George E. Norcross III, has accused former New Jersey Attorney General Matthew J. Platkin and other members of his office of commencing the prosecution knowing there was no probable cause.
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March 27, 2026
Family members convicted of designing a trust scheme that tried to net $8.5 million in tax refunds were sentenced to prison by a Texas federal judge and ordered to pay back $1.7 million they spent on cryptocurrency and luxuries, according to the U.S. Department of Justice.
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March 27, 2026
The European Commission will have the power to take EU member states to court if they abuse a newly announced fast-track customs scheme by allowing noncompliant firms to benefit, a European Union official said Friday.
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March 26, 2026
A Venezuelan political opposition leader told jurors Thursday that he connected with former Florida congressman David Rivera to try to secure meetings with high-level U.S. officials in the first Trump administration, but Rivera — who is on trial for allegedly failing to register as a foreign agent — failed to deliver.
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March 26, 2026
A Colorado town's fee on owners of short-term rentals does not require a vote under the state's Taxpayer's Bill of Rights, a state appeals court ruled, rejecting the argument that it raises more revenue than is needed for its stated purpose.
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March 26, 2026
The European Commission overstepped when it ordered Belgium to recover unlawful state aid not just from companies that received tax exemptions but from every member of their corporate groups, an adviser to the European Union's top court said Thursday.
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March 26, 2026
The U.S. announced a bevy of new trade investigations this month to underpin a tariff regime intended to replace duties struck down by the U.S. Supreme Court, but questions remain about the fate of deals struck with trading partners and whether importers will face higher tariffs. Here, Law360 examines four questions on the implications of those investigations.
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March 26, 2026
Hawaii condominium units in a Maui multiunit property are considered nonowner-occupied properties — not apartments — and should be taxed at higher rates under a county ordinance, a Hawaii appeals court affirmed.
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March 26, 2026
Italy isn't breaking with European Union law by limiting tax deductions on certain intercompany interest payments, an adviser to the EU's top court said Thursday, holding the provision is nondiscriminatory because it looks at the location of assets, not entities.
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March 26, 2026
The full European Parliament voted Thursday to approve a set of contingencies on the European Union's trade deal with the U.S. that would implement major tariff cuts, including the ability to suspend the agreement if President Donald Trump raises tariffs or introduces new ones.
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March 26, 2026
Two partnerships that claimed tens of millions of dollars in tax deductions for protecting 530 acres in Georgia from development grossly overvalued their contributions and rightfully drew penalties from the Internal Revenue Service, the Eleventh Circuit said in affirming a U.S. Tax Court decision.
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March 26, 2026
An industrial parcel in Oregon was overvalued, the state tax court ruled, agreeing with the owner's assertion of the property's highest and best use and the need for a sewer pump station.
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March 26, 2026
France will expand the power of its customs officials to allow them to better identify and penalize traders that are circumventing a new small parcel tax, the government announced.
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March 25, 2026
U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Director John Squires is exceeding the authority Congress intended to grant him in the America Invents Act for discretionarily denying patent challenges, the U.S. House of Representatives' intellectual property leader said Wednesday.
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March 25, 2026
The looming July cutoff to maintain eligibility for clean electricity investment and production tax credits is sparking a dealmaking spree as smaller developers who are unable to meet the deadline begin looking to sell projects to deeper-pocketed players who can.
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March 25, 2026
Two taxpayer groups and a tax counsel association urged the U.S. Supreme Court to hear a woman's appeal over liabilities triggered by a fraudulent preparer, arguing the Third Circuit decision in the case misread the fraud exception in the tax assessment statute.